I got a new laptop earlier this year. From my understanding, the specs surpass what is required for TS3. And for a while I was actually able to play and enjoy the game with minimal issues. All of a sudden, the game seems to be running horribly, and I honestly don't know what could have changed? Here are my specs:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960m 2Gb GDDR5
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz-3.40GHz
8 Gb RAM
500Gb Hard Drive
I keep my drivers up to date and try to take care of my PC as best as possible. I have a handful of Twallan's mods and minimal CC. I've tried everything I can think of. Pulling mods, starting a new game, clearing cache files, I even recently uninstalled then reinstalled. No luck. I'm so confused because I can run games like Planet Coaster on high with no problem. Any help or insight into this issue would be appreciated, thanks.
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right-click desktop Nvidia Control Panel
You can track your FPS in-game with the cheat fps on. Small text will appear in the corner and it should be capping at whatever your monitor's refresh rate is. For most people this is 60. In order for vsync to work, you need to be in fullscreen mode. If this does not work then you may have to use Nvidia Inspector.
Another question is how much space is left on your hard drive?
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@Candyd I reset my towns regularly but I can't imagine that making much of a difference in a brand new save?
Oh, I forgot to mention that I have about 200Gb of space left on my hard drive. But I thought that was just a myth when it came to game performance.
Your laptop has two cards. One being intel. Some people had to do something with intel not just Nvidia. @igazor may remember what it is
The second is that (we don't really understand why) some players with dual graphics have found that the frame rate also has to be locked in on the Intel chip even if the game is supposedly not using it. How to do that escapes me, but there must be some sort of control panel into the Intel graphics as well.
Needing freed up drive space is not a myth, I've heard many Windows users (not necessarily related to TS3 or games) claim that it is and that they should be able to use up every available byte of space on a volume running their operating system. This is just not true, even Macs need some free space to maneuver. The reason that the game itself needs free space is that when you start up and save, and as you play, it keeps reading and writing from RAM into and from the CurrentGame folder into Saves, the caches, and other drive locations and needs the extra space to do that effectively. But of course 200 GB is more than plenty for both Windows and the game to work with. If we were talking about 20 GB free, that could be more of a problem.
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Try tweaking it on global settings of Nvidia. When I was having my "horse" issue, none of the tweaks on ts3w.exe worked, but they did when I did it from global. If that still doesn't work, Chester got me on an amazing software that limits my fps even in windowed mode. It's called RivaTuner. It came with MSI Afterburner, but I'm sure you could download just it (you'd think). Before that, I always had to limit my fps with bandicam (since everything else I tried wouldn't limit since I play in windowed mode), which really was not ideal.
What do you mean by global settings?
Then under the "3D settings" (circled on the left) it should bring up this options circled on the right "Global Settings" (which if you are adjusting ts3.exe/ts3w.exe (depending on patch level) settings, that would be under "Program Settings" (not circled but right next to global settings).
You want the circled area that says "global settings".
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