Back story just so you know before I get to my question: My Sims 3 was going good on my husband's laptop here, going pretty smooth. Actually more smooth than I'd ever seen on my not even 4 year old laptop (that is now toast), or my ancient desktop in it's prime (which has been toast for about 4 years now). My Sims moved so gracefully and quickly on this laptop, it was beautiful. Anywho, I also only at first experienced maybe 1 crash at a time over a period of say 7 hours. Then turned into about 3 or 4. But still going pretty good. And this is all while having mods and CC. This week though, loading the game takes about 10+ minutes, then loading my saved game takes about 20-25, and saving my game takes about the same amount of time. My Sims move painfully slow. I turned the graphics down, I even put the screen size down. Deleted cache. Husband has a weekly defrag on the laptop. He's even done a whole system reset, but not before backing up my Sims folder on a flash drive. So once the reboot was done I reinstalled everything, copied my Sims folder onto the blank Sims folder. But it's still going painfully slow. So I'm thinking (after reading up), that maybe it's possible TS3 has stopped using hubby's NVIDIA card and is using the Intel one? If I'm right, how do I access the NVIDIA settings and how do I make Sims use the NVIDIA?
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On the graphics card question, we should confirm that you have dual graphics and see which drivers it's using before we get into how to see which card it's using or if something else needs to be adjusted. Not all systems have dual. If you could please run a full dxdiag report on this laptop, send it up to Pastebin.com and provide a link so we can read it, we can suggest the best way to proceed from there.
How to run one: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information
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I did do the dxdiag report just now, and I went to do the Pastebin, but I have no clue how to do it. Do I have to sign up or...how does that work?
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Once that's squared away, the typical method to get TS3 to use the Nvidia card would be to use the Nvidia Control Panel to set up a profile for the game (that's TS3.exe for Patch 1.69, TS3w.exe with the "w" for 1.67), select "Use High Performance Card" (or something like that) where given a choice since you do have dual, and while there make sure vertical sync is set to "On" or "Adaptive" and Triple Buffering to "On" for the game's profile. To see which card is in use, there should be a pull-down menu option on the Control Panel that says something like Show or Monitor card usage. I'm not on Nvidia so I can't provide a screen shot, but this one does a great job of showing the setup:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/15007970#Comment_15007970
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