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1tsmekb
Rising Novice
30 days ago

The Sims 4 is laggy

My Sims 4 game is very laggy and delayed. The Sims stand there for a couple of seconds before taking action. It's laggy like this in all of my households and the worlds too. I tried to lower my graph...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    29 days ago

    1tsmekb  Please restart your computer, wait five minutes without opening anything, and then open the Task Manager and see how much Memory is in use.  It'll show as a percentage.  If it's more than 50%, click the Startup icon and use Windows key-shift-S to capture the list of applications.  Please post that screenshot here.

    Either way, please open Sims 4, but nothing else (aside from the EA App), and see how a new save runs.  If it's still laggy, restart your computer and repeat the test, except this time with your computer offline.  You can sign into the EA App and put it in offline mode, then disable wifi and/or disconnect the ethernet cable before pressing Play.

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puzzlezaddict
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1tsmekb  Then that's a reasonable interim solution.  It will cut off your access to the Gallery, but you can reenable Online Social Features when you want to use the Gallery and disable it again afterwards.  There have been a handful of reports about this feature causing lag, so hopefully EA will fix it sooner or later.

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1tsmekb
Rising Novice
23 days ago

Okay, Thank you.

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