What FPS should I be actually getting with these specs?

Do you have an SSD drive and if you have is The Sims 4 installed on that?

@MiragesHusband What resolution are you playing the game?

@jpkarlsen Nope, I don't have an SSD. What are they for?

@roberta591 I play on 1920x1080

@MiragesHusband  To actually know you would have to use a benchmark program like 3dmark. To actually say if it's good or bad I'd have to know the monitor specs and things like the speed of your memory and specs of your motherboard and other specs. Most lcd flatscreen monitors are locked to 60fps so whether it says 30fps or 100fps, your only seeing 60fps. You would have to have an old crt (like the 20 inch Sony crt I use to benchmark) to actually see the difference. a frame rate of 30fps should produce fluid motion. Anything past 60fps only gives you more detail. Computer video system are actually very complicated and now that 1080p is pretty much the standard (4K is coming up fast) we have to start considering bandwidth of components. You have to understand the higher the resolution the more memory needs to be written and faster to fill the frame buffer and we are back to the bandwidth issue. If you want high fps then you may have to lower the resolution to 720p. Here are things to check - are the video device drivers up to date? Is the Nvidia control panel for triple buffering? Is to fps dropping too low? What happens when you lower the resolution? 3dmark offering a free benchmark - download it (you can get it through Steam) and see what it tells you. Now that you know the software you can compare it to other system like yours (at least you used to be able to). I have a GTX 960 in my gaming machine and I'm getting good video with Fallout 4. hth

SSD = Solid State Drive. Many times faster than a standard HDD.

Gives a boost to programs (such as games) that reads a lot from the drive.

What is your resolution?

Your GPU is a bit faster than mine. I just did a quick run with settings maxed out. I get around 70fps quite consistently. At home I get 72fps (Edit: After changing refresh rate setting and rebooting I'm getting much more (over 100). Framerate was seemingly capped at half my refresh rate.), in a crowded place (gym) I got 70fps, and when fast forwarding it dips to 67 at the lowest. I managed to get as low as 52 when brusquely zooming out, but it soon stabilized. I think you should be getting more, especially when fast forwarding.

My specs:

CPU: Intel Core-i5 4690K @3.50Ghz

GPU: AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB

RAM: 8GB DDR3

Storage: 7200RPM hard drive