I have an Asus i7 notebook PC with a 960m video card. When I run it on battery, the FPS is really low but when plugged in the FPS gets into the 200 range. I have already made the appropriate settings in NVIDIA control panel and have set up a profile with NVIDIA Experience. Is there something that I need to do to link these to the game? Do I have to start the game in Exoerience for example for those settings to work?
This morning I downloaded NVIDIA Inspector but the FPS is running around 100 range. So again, is there something I need to do to link that program with the game, or is just having it installed sufficient? And if it is, is my FPS normal running in the 100-110 range?
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For Nvidia Inspector, you need to unzip that download and run the Nvidia Profile Inspector executable. (This is for the newer versions of Nvidia Inspector, for the older version just run the Nvidia Inspector program and look for the profile button on the main window). Choose the TS3 profile in the drop down box. Then scroll down to Frame Rate Limiter and set it to whatever you want. I have mine set to 65. I forget why I chose that number. It's higher than my refresh rate but still low enough not to overrun my graphics card.
The difference in FPS between battery and plugged in may have to do with your power settings in Windows. There's also a power management setting in the game profiles in the Nvidia Control Panel, but I don't really know what that does. I play on a desktop and I think that's set to maximum performance by default for me.
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?!
What did you do with Nvidia Inspector?
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Yes, I optimized the game through NVIDIA Experience. No I do not start the game there, I use a desktop shortcut of TS3W.exe.
I just downloaded NVIDIA Inspecter this morning. I opened up the profiles and looked at the one for TS3. I didn't do anything else with it because I don't understand what I'm supposed to do to get any of these programs to actually affect my game.
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?!
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?!
For the newest version of Nvidia Inpsector, launch the Nvidia Profile Inspector executable. At the top, in the Profiles drop down box, find the entry for "Sims 3". In the settings below look for section 2 "Sync and Refresh" and the first line (for me, at least) is "Frame Rate Limiter". I have a regular LCD monitor and set the Frame Rate Limiter to 60.7, the closest to 60 the default offered. I'm not sure if that's the best value however. I think the setting is a cap on frame rate, so for a while I had it capped at 65.0 hz. Once you've chosen a value, click Apply Changes at the top and close the program.
Just to clarify what I did: I have as Asus GL552VW with an i7 6700HQ, 16GB RAM, and the 960m video card.
I right clicked on the desktop and selected Graphics Properties > 3D. At least on my laptop, on the right side of the screen, where it says General Settings, I had to change this to Custom Settings. When I did this an option for Vertical Sync appeared and I selected Driver Settings and saved this profile.
On the NVIDIA control panel (also available by right clicking on the desktop) I had already made my 'high performance NVIDIA processor' the preferred graphics for TS3 and set Vertical Sync to ON. But I still had high FPS until I made the above changes to the on-board integrated video processor.
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?!
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?!