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 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.
That also didn't work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXpuuQ6qKlU
@DanSherwind Your framerates are a little high whether your monitor is running at 60 of 75 Hz. So either vertical sync is disabled or not working, or you're playing in windowed mode, in which case you'd need a different approach. Either way, it can help somewhat to lock framerates to the refresh rate of your monitor.
What world are your sims in though? Playing in an apartment in San Myshuno is known to have exactly the kind of stutter on 3x speed as is in your video, and the world runs even worse on lower-end hardware. This is a flaw with the game, not anyone's computer, and there's no good fix for it other than not using 3x speed.
By the way, it wouldn't usually cause something like the stuttering you're seeing, but 10 GB free on your hard drive is not really enough for Windows to maneuver. So it's worth trying to clear another 10 GB or so just in case it helps, and even if it doesn't affect Sims 4, it'll still be good for your system overall.
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