sluggish perfomance when sims spawn ?

brubruQC1998  That's helpful to know, but also disappointing that the game can't handle that setting.  It's certainly not the fault of your hardware.

If I see any other cases like this, I'll suggest the users do the same, and if it helps them too, I'll flag it.  It's unlikely EA would do anything with a single report, at least from the posts I've seen, but an established pattern would be worth investigating.