Experiencing FPS drops and poor performance
I'm having performance issues with The Sims 4; my FPS drops a lot, which I found very strange because I play on an Acer Nitro 5 with an i5 12450H, RTX 3050, and 24GB of RAM, so The Sims 4 should have excellent performance. Then I started noticing a few things: my laptop screen is 144Hz, and the game can't maintain a stable 144 FPS. When the game is at 144 FPS, it's fluid, but it can't stay at 144 FPS all the time; it drops below 100 FPS and starts to stutter. So I tried locking it at 60 FPS, and the performance got even worse. I found this strange because I play Resident Evil 3 Remake at 60 FPS, and the game runs wonderfully. So I concluded that The Sims 4 isn't optimized for 60 FPS on high refresh rate screens like my 144Hz screen, even when I set it to 60 FPS in the settings. Besides that... My laptop is experiencing low performance and slow gameplay, which causes it to overheat, something that doesn't happen with other games. I'm reporting this because The Sims Direct posted that they are working to optimize the performance of The Sims 4, so I'm using this report to try and help with my observations. Since most modern computer screens are 144Hz or higher, I believe that if they optimize the game to deliver 60fps like the Resident Evil 3 remake on 144Hz or higher screens, it will greatly improve the performance of The Sims 4. Edit By crinrict: Adjusted Title
Owned DLC Missing Items In Game
I have been encountering an error message in game that says "Content Not Installed." It says that "Purchased or other content used in this gallery item is not installed. If you place it now, you will not see the uninstalled content. Do you want to place this household/lot." I have a lot of expansion packs, stuff packs, game packs, and a few kits, but do not utilize any CC or Mods at all. The items that I'm having an issue with are all households or lots that I made myself with all the packs that I own. When viewing it in my Gallery, under the most recent updates, it now has two tabs at the bottom. The left one for "show used items from these packs" and displays all my packs that I own and that are downloaded. The right one says "show used items" and has a red X over a few items that I just chose in CAS with no problem. I tried making a sim and saving it with 0 DLC content and didn't have the error message. I did it again with just 1 random item from a DLC and was given the message. Not every time I do this will it show the red X, but I always get this message when trying to place my own content from the Gallery into a save. I waited until the new updates and downloaded those. I used the EA app to repair all content. I cleared the cache. Tried closing out the game and starting it up again. I'm sure there's other things I haven't tried that might work, but I haven't seen a lot of people commenting about this particular issue.
Game closes out randomly
I will be in the middle of playing the game and it will literally freeze and close completely out of the game. i dont have cc, I have repaired, uninstalled the game and done all of the things that was suggested before when i posted this issue. Nothing has fixed this issue. HELP! I am sick of having to go backwards and redo everything i accomplish (even when saving often)Brand new MSI laptop freezing and crashing. No mods.
As the title states, brand new computer crashing. I've not installed anything except Sims 4. Freezes, then crashes, then automatically runs a diagnostic and finds nothing. I am completely computer dumb so I have no idea what I'm doing. Any suggestions?
Game keeps closing and I lose progress
Hi all, My Sims 4 game keeps closing unexpectedly, no warnings and then all progress is lost. I have deleted the entire game, re-downloaded it, I still have 200GB free storage on my laptop, my graphics card is up to date. I don't have any CC or mods. I play my game on a Lenovo Legion laptop and have done for years, it's just in the last 5-6 times I've tried to play the game, it closes out of the blue after about an hour, sometimes sooner than that. I've deleted my history too so I am starting this completely from scratch again and this is still happening. Any suggestions? I am getting so frustrated. Any tips/tricks/checks would be greatly appreciated! Thank you
My custom content and mods aren't activating !!
I tried everything (remove the cachetsr folders, localthumbcache, etc...), activate script changes and repair the game but all my cc’s and mods don’t activate and it seriously starts to discourage me. Does anyone have a solution to fix it please that would be really nice? Honestly, even though I have a recent PC, everything worked fine until the last update. It's like you need a more powerful PC.
