TS4 Stuttering
Hello there. After upgrading my G210 to a 1070, the game stutters like hell at ever given occasion. I tried clean driver install, game repair, game reinstalling, internet disabling, different graph...
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@DanSherwind Your monitor is currently running at 75 Hz, so enabling vertical sync should give you 75 fps, not 60. Try disabling the option within the game settings and using the one in the Nvidia Control Panel instead. Right-click on your desktop, select the Control Panel, click Manage 3D settings > Program Settings, choose TS4_x64.exe (not TS4.exe, that's the 32-bit version), scroll down to Vertical sync, and set it to On. It may help to enable Triple buffering as well. Then click Apply, restart your computer, and test the game.
You can also try setting v-sync to Adaptive, although your graphics card is fast enough that that wouldn't normally be necessary. It's still worth trying though.
In both cases, let me know what framerates you're seeing.
If that doesn't help, try playing in windowed fullscreen and windowed modes. Since v-sync doesn't work in windowed mode, you can instead use the Control Panel to set a global Max Frame Rate, which should be 75:
If that doesn't work either, try playing in a clean boot:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10
When you've rebooted, open the Task Manager and go through the background processes list, shutting down any application that isn't critical. As an example, the Nvidia processes are critical, but an application for improving game performance or coordinating your RGB lighting is not.
Already tried all that. Nothing changes.
@DanSherwind Have you tried playing in a clean user folder yet? Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and the game will create a new one the next time you open it. Don't add anything to that folder; just test out a new save.
If that doesn't make a difference, try setting your monitor to run at 60 Hz, and repeat the above. It may be that the monitor's settings don't work well with Sims 4. To access the settings, right-click on the desktop, select Display settings > Advanced display settings > Display adapter properties > List all modes, and choose the 60 Hz mode with otherwise the same properties. Restart your computer after changing the setting and before trying to play.
Did both of that and still same problem.
@DanSherwind Could you post a video of what you're seeing, with the fps counter enabled? I'd like to see exactly what's happening in your game.
If you'd like to experiment a bit, I'm not sure this person has exactly the same issue as you do, but they played with the default values in graphicsrules.sgr and got some interesting results:
Rather than edit the version in the game's program files though, you can make a copy, stick it in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\ConfigOverride, and mess with it however you want. The game will read the copy in ConfigOverride as long as it's there, but if you start getting crashes or other weird graphics glitches, you can just delete that copy, no harm done.
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