Well that didn't last long. We were finally given 64bit, and "hey, go have big fun, knocks yourselves out." But now my GTX 970 and 16GB of ram, on a ship shape rig, has to be turned down to lowest Lighting settings to end the atrocious lag on larger lots with many windows.
And I'm not talking modern glasshouse mansions either. A typical mansion, with plenty of window, but not overdone, then boom, lag.
My graphics card and rig has no earthly business with low settings on anything the pc gaming world currently has out there.
So is it back to playing shotgun bungalows, or pushing the boat out on medium two-up, two-down nuclear family lots of supreme repetitive boringness?
Now to go explain to NVidia what TS4 is doing to their 970, and see if they can keep a straight face. Though I seriously doubt this is due to the lighting effect itself crippling the graphics card. Just the way the game is handling the data from all those windows.
Switching it off works for now. But if this is not addressed or explained, I will be seeking a full refund thanks to the new UK laws that protect me from software companies who cannot ever deliver the product they promised.
I haven't even patched to the latest 1.21. Need I bother? Dare I hope for lighting settings miracles after I do?
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Try removing your screenshot folder and see if that helps the issue .
Try playing in offline mode and see if that helps the lagging issue.
Sometimes having a large amount of items in the sims inventories and household inventory can cause lagging issues. Remove some of the items from the inventories and see if that helps.
Do you have cc/mods in your game? If you do, move your mods folder to the desktop. Then start the game and test to see if the issue is still there.
Try resetting your sims 4 folder and see if that helps. To do that, move your sims 4 folder ( that is in Documents -Electronic Arts - then the sims 4 folder is there ) to the desktop. Then start the game, and a new sims 4 folder will be generated. Exit the game and then copy back the "options.ini" file and the "saves" , "screenshots" "tray" "custom music " and "mods" folders from the desktop sims 4 folder to the new sims 4 folder, replacing the new generated file/ folders with the old file/folders from the desktop sims 4 folder .
Try turning off origin in-game and see if that helps
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Thanks for your advice, but this is what I too advise others to do over at MTS, and then some. I just cannot end the lag on large lots due to the new lighting.
coolspear1 welcome to the forums. Hate that it's to report a problem with your game, but thrilled to see you post here!
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Have you experienced the lag on large lots with a fair amount of windows?
I have only default houses and I haven't played a lot this week, just patched this morning and loaded it up long enough to make sure nothing blew up. (So far so good.) So to answer your question, I haven't had that issue here... yet.
And my screenshots folder in game is empty, I use onedrive with printscreen to keep mine. So I would never have made that connection, either. (There's no connection there, as is the case with several bugs here... LOL!)
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I did too EG like this is Coolspear, he not only has mods, he makes them and they're good ones too
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Well, this game has not been fun, you know all too well what happened with the June 2nd patch and thanks for your NO Auto Mods, I have a few of them in my game, no more going to the bar to make drinks for my sims and your insect spawners, I don't collect them but have them in every yard...
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I shouldn't have put it the way I did. I wasn't meaning to make YOU feel bad, @rosemow ... I'd never want to do that to you.
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No, not at all. You were just being very helpful. 9 times out of 10, that sound advice will do the trick. Nothing to be sorry about at all. You couldn't possible know all the tricks I've tried.
did you add the game to nvidia control panel and use vsync? . Running your fps too high can cause lag and stutter.
What cpu do you have?
Have you tired ending non essential background tasks while playing?
Have you monitored the fps? have vsync enabled?
16GB hyper X fury
MSI GTX 1080
MSI gaming M5 mobo
Evga 750 supernova
Corsair hydro h110i GT
Corsair obsidian 750D
500GB SSD
6TB Seagate Barracuda Pro
LG 34" ultra wide
Also, how is the game like on other normal lots with smaller houses?
PC gamer for years. Keep background processes to bare minimum as a matter of course.
Vsync always on, screen tear without it. Game was set to default fps prior to new lighting, but messing about this month it is currently set to 60fps. Usually hovers about the 30 mark with Lighting setting on max, despite the game lag on large lots.
TS4 exe (and TS4 64bit exe) is on Nvidia 3D panel. Was application controlled, tried Adaptive. No joy.
All fans and temps are healthy levels. Except graphics card fan now is hyper for the first time ever if Lighting settings are on high. (As reported on this site by other players since new Lighting system.)
All other PC games on ultra settings, Witcher 3, Dragon Age Inquisition, Stellaris, and all are still super smooth hours on end.
TS4, empty Mods folder, large lots, lagged to death. I even did a recent clear out of my SSD drive, taking off a bunch of lesser played games to make more room. Uninstalled and reinstalled TS4 in the process, hoping it would also clear the lag. Nope.
Large lots only. Lighting on high only. Only since introduction of new lighting system. Other than that TS4 is running problem free.
I had the 970 before the new lighting, and it had fps drops and some lag. The game before the new lighting was cpu heavy.. so maybe now it's both cpu and gpu heavy.
Looks like you have done everything the gamer does as fas as trouble shooting, That leaves the game which i know is pure rubbish in terms of being optimized. It performs poorly even with those people that have a 980ti.
I am buying a new rig next month with a GTX 1080.. so we will see how that goes.
Have you monitored the cpu and gpu usage with a program like hwmonitor?
What 970 do you have?
16GB hyper X fury
MSI GTX 1080
MSI gaming M5 mobo
Evga 750 supernova
Corsair hydro h110i GT
Corsair obsidian 750D
500GB SSD
6TB Seagate Barracuda Pro
LG 34" ultra wide
GTX 970msi
That 1080 looks tasty. I was reading up on it over on the Nvidia site earlier today.
Haven't tried the hwmonitor. How much of a difference would that make in terms of what the game reports with fps on to what hwmonitor would report?
I strongly think this is a data problem with the game producing too much info from too many windows all at once, than it is a lighting effects issues.
The one thing I have not done is actually rip out all the windows of large lots to see if it ends or even reduces the lag. Think that'll be my next test next time I'm in game.
You should try to remove those windows if you have time cuz it doesn't seem like a hardware issue on your part.
Hwmonitor will report temps but also usage of the cpu gpu and hdd.
It's a good idea to look at the usage so you know what the game is heavily using, when i was playing a couple months back it was using more cpu and SDD then graphics card.
I would be interested in knowing what exactly it is using when you have this lag. My guess it's cpu.
Remember that program needs to be left open when playing so you can get the MAX usage and temps.
Your problem is probably not hardware related.. However a a game like this (un optimized.) can create havoc for the hardware.
16GB hyper X fury
MSI GTX 1080
MSI gaming M5 mobo
Evga 750 supernova
Corsair hydro h110i GT
Corsair obsidian 750D
500GB SSD
6TB Seagate Barracuda Pro
LG 34" ultra wide