@Gummingtons Afterburner is known to cause issues (sometimes) with Sims 4. Try disabling it before doing anything else.
It would also be helpful to see a dxdiag on your computer. Even if you're rigorous in maintaining it, you might have a driver or some other detail in common with the original poster that could possibly be involved.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
If you want to keep experimenting, try playing in a clean boot. You'll have to disable Afterburner manually though, since last I heard, it still runs in a clean boot.
Thanks for the suggestion~
After some problem solving tonight i may have made some progress.
Disabling all the mentioned software didn't change anything, however i tried disabling High Definition Audio Device and NVIDIA High Definition Audio in the Device manager (under sound) and was able to play for a few hours with no issues, worth noting for anyone reading that i only use my Sound Blaster sound driver so i personally don't need the other two.
Whether i've solved it or it's just a coincidence i'll have to wait and see when i get more time to play tomorrow.
Update: Didn't work in the long run
Attached is my DxDiag
There's a couple of ts4 and reshade errors in there but it happens regardless of reshade.
Cheers.
It's worth noting that I have the same thing. When I click the three dots, or any UI thing, the FPS goes back to normal (which is smooth as butter).
EDIT: I've also checked how much difference there is in FPS, when my game goes as 'normal' it's between 58.85 and 60 fps (it's locked at 60) When it lags it's between 10-12fps
@Gummingtons That's really helpful information, thanks. I looked around and saw some complaints about the Nvidia sound driver causing a bit of latency in other programs, although I haven't heard about it in Sims 4. But now I'll know to look for it.
@JeanVW Would you try disabling the Nvidia sound driver as @Gummingtons did? You have what is almost certainly the same version, since the two of you have the same graphics driver, and the audio driver installs as part of that package.
@MadPeachyTV If you have an Nvidia graphics card, it's worth disabling the audio driver as well, at least long enough to test. Please also run a dxdiag and attach it to a post. Whether this works for you or not, it would be good to compare information.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
I also dont have an Nvidia Graphics card,
Im currently using the Radeon RX 570 Series
@puzzlezaddict I have the DxDiag here for you đ
@MadPeachyTV Thanks for the dxdiag, and yeah, you're probably not going to be helped by disabling the audio driver. But you might as well try, since you also have both a driver from AMD and one from Realtek. If that doesn't help, try playing in a clean boot:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10
Let me know whether it helps.
Got a few more hours without the bug but unfortunately it came back eventually so i'm scratching the sound driver off my list.
It seems the more i play on Fast Forward the faster the bug occurs.
I just find it very odd that the bug will stop when opening different UI elements, like how does opening the camera control tab affect this? When i want to push through and continue playing i just end up switching between the Notifications tab and Camera control tabs each time i go from build to live mode. To me it sounds like some sort of UI bug but if that were the case surely more people would be experiencing this. Maybe it's a cache thing, though deleting the various cache files doesn't do anything. Back to the drawing board.
And thanks for the help puzzlez, appreciate it.
@Gummingtons i found the more i fast forwarded, the quicker the bug surfaced as well!
I do agree that its strange the UI seems to reset it, but if it was a UI bug, more ppl would be experiencing it.
I wonder if this has something to do with the game De-syncing/simulation lag? I know that when things lag out and sims stand still you could always open the menu and things would re-sync similar to this, but i haven't had simulation lag problems in ages.
@Gummingtons I know I'm quite late but I've been having this problem since a long time now, maybe a year or more and since I use A LOT of mods I thought they were the issue so I tried fixing my game alone, not even checking to see if other people had that problem, until today. I do think a lot more of us have this exact same bug but don't talk about it if they're in the same situation as me as mods are often buggy and/or require updates to not bug out your game. My lag tho extended to a point where even if I didn't go into build mode, it would lag anyways and openning any UI interface wouldn't fix it. So I did a huge cleaning in my mods and it seemed to have worked but then I got in build mode and it's here all over again. The only thing I can think of is my lot inventory which I have no idea why is full of all the furnitures I specifically sold when moving out of previous houses. Everytime I try to sell an item from the inventory my FPS drops as if I was playing on a 2011 computer and it actually takes a genuine 3 seconds before the item is sold and of course we cant select multiple objects so I'm slowly trying to get rid of everything and see if that's what's causing the build mode to lag, maybe there is too much to load and the game isn't appreciative of it, I'll update if anyone is still having this bug and still looking for a fix.
Edit : it did NOT work âšī¸
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