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Pool update broke game?
Demetri14
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I've been playing the same family since the game launched, I have a brand new gaming laptop that has been running the game on ultra with no problems, and have no custom content or mods installed.
Since the update my two sims glitched out and are listed as at work when they are on the home lot. It used to take 10 seconds max to load now suddenly it takes upwards of a minute and saving up to 30 seconds. The game is also now extremely laggy when just yesterday I had zero lag and I am now unable to go back to my laptop home screen or access other programs without fully exiting the game.
All of this is just post patch. Does anyone have any ideas what to do? Is this an actual glitch? Is anything similar happening to you guys? Thanks for any help in advance
Since the update my two sims glitched out and are listed as at work when they are on the home lot. It used to take 10 seconds max to load now suddenly it takes upwards of a minute and saving up to 30 seconds. The game is also now extremely laggy when just yesterday I had zero lag and I am now unable to go back to my laptop home screen or access other programs without fully exiting the game.
All of this is just post patch. Does anyone have any ideas what to do? Is this an actual glitch? Is anything similar happening to you guys? Thanks for any help in advance
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TINY HOUSE CHALLENGE
The May Family
Modeling Career?
this fun problem came with the origin update. you can try turning origin to offline, but so far the best work around is to use the in game window mode to access desktop
The game is broken? EA, fix your game! You broke it again!
@colton147 Specs - GeForce gtx 850m
- Intel 17-4712HQ 2.30GHz
- 16 gig ram
And drivers updated
I can still do that when playing and I'm online.
TINY HOUSE CHALLENGE
The May Family
Modeling Career?
What window mode do you play in?
What is your graphic card?
I also don't have a problem alt+tabbing but I play in full windowed mode (one of the windowed modes) and have from the beginning because I didn't like the black screen that would appear for a second when exiting the game in fullscreen mode. Also (forgot this part), Fraps doesn't like fullscreen mode.
If you're asking me - haven't got a clue, my other half is the tech person in the house.
TINY HOUSE CHALLENGE
The May Family
Modeling Career?
As for the loading time that the original poster spoke of, I haven't had this specific problem, but have found that deleting the cache files does speed up the game if it starts to slow down.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/785615/deleting-cache-files-found-this/p1
Also, apparently there are now several mods that are messing up the game now. In particular is the moveobjects mod as well as the improved tv-computer mod by Biscomix over on MTS. So it's quite possible that there are a couple of mods messing with your game. You mentioned you have no CC, but I am not sure if this also means you have no mods so I put this comment in as well.
- remove mods
In this case I was replying to Ashkevron. Not to other posts in this thread.
Hopefully, this clears your confusion @EasyToRead
People usually do what they do.
I don't do what people usually do. This is not facebook but is a forum. There is no need to address or quote previous post if you're replying onto that post. Only those posts/posters that are not adjacent.
Yes, for some. I think it might be a graphic card issue but not sure.
Change it to full windowed mode, set your frame rate to 60, and you are back in business. This mode looks no different than fullscreen mode but should allow you to still alt+tab out of the game. I use that mode and have no problems alt+tabbing. I also never have Origin online but not sure that factors in or not.
Probably because you have dual cards and the game has found/matched the intel card, does it reset to the lowest settings? Mine does that, just make sure that in your tray that when you have the game launched that it is showing the right card being used. Then just change them back.
I used the list that is stickied somewhere around here, found my nvidia card, changed the settings manually in-game to match that card and not the stoopid intel card. I also changed my global card settings on my device so all my programs automatically use the nvidia card. I wish devices would stop shipping with two cards like this.
Nope, I have only one card.
It's not really a problem, it takes 10 seconds to fix (Switch to fullscreen, the ultra and check "uncompressed textures"). It's just strange.
Aw, man!
Why you gotta go busting up my theory like that? LOL
I'm glad you are able to easily fix it though.
Thanks i will try that