stuttering
So I've just gotten back into the sims recently and after i upgrades my GPU and made sure all the graphics drivers were up to date and deleted my old AMD drivers, the game constantly stutters now. I'...
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@FlipzSenapi Please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
Please also let me know what kind of framerates you're seeing both when the game is stuttering and not. You can enable the built-in fps counter with the cheat "fps on" (without quotes). A number will appear in the lower-left corner, over the user interface. I don't need exact numbers, just a general idea of the behavior.
So i usually get an average or 90 to around 110 but it dips to the 60 and sometimes even as low as 30 and I usually play on medium high settings
@FlipzSenapi Is your power supply 500W or grater? Ideally you want your video card to match your monitor. Your monitor native refresh is 60 Hz and your video card is 144 Hz. What you should try is set the Nvidia driver to 60 Hz refresh.and see if that helps.
@FlipzSenapi What is your current patch level? You can see it in-game at the Main Menu, in the lower-right area. I ask because the most recent Windows error in your dxdiag lists patch 1.86, and the current version (as of yesterday) is 1.88.
Is there any pattern to the stutter, for example when you're playing on a certain lot, or it's a certain time in-game, or you or your sims are doing anything specific? Do you play any other games, and if so, how do they run? It's fine if you don't; I'm just curious.
Your graphics card should be able to run Sims 4 at higher than 110 fps, at least in a new save, so if you don't have any other games to compare, please start a new save in a new user folder as a baseline. Move your entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and the game will spawn a clean folder with no content. Don't add anything to it yet; just start a new save, specifically in one of the base game worlds, and see how it runs both in terms of fps and stutter. When you're done testing, you can trash the new Sims 4 folder and put the old one back.
@roberta591 The monitor itself is running at 144 Hz. While it's technically an overclock, there's no reason to think that this would cause fps drops and also no reason to lower the refresh rate. The GPU is capable of hitting 144 fps in Sims 4 anyway.
- @puzzlezaddict So I'm running patch 1.87 i haven't updated cause my internet is awful at the moment. Other games run perfectly fine which is strange. i will try what you suggested and I will get back to you.
@puzzlezaddict The monitor has a native mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60Hz) - the video system should match the device. In this case the monitor is receiving more frames then it is displaying. While this may not be an issue, it should be corrected (eliminated) as a possible cause.
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
- @roberta591 my monitor is a 144hz not a 60 hz monitor
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