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Why is my Sims 4 so laggy?
Let me start with I have never had a problem with the sims lagging on this laptop until recently. I opened my game and it ran just fine until I went into a save file. When the game loaded I could bar...
@Scarlett_Wolf_02 The dxdiag is fine, and no, it doesn't need to be run while you play. The problem is obvious: your computer doesn't have a graphics driver installed, so it's using the Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead. This driver will run the game extremely poorly no matter what kind of hardware you have.
You can download the newest driver for your integrated graphics chip directly from Intel:
Install it, restart your computer, and test the game. Let me know how it runs.
