Hi there, I bought sims 4 last week and its is running soooo slow! I use to play sims 3 on the same laptop and it never ran this slow!
The game has randomly shut down as well, and the mouse is liked delayed by a couple seconds, once i click takes aggges for any reaction, I have changed all my graphic settings and currently have it on low settings, will work fast for about 5 mins then goes back to being extremely slow!
any tips are appreciated! :)
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If you click the Apple Logo in the menu bar, and select "About this Mac". I am interested in what kind of Mac you have, your processor, memory and graphics card. (If you have a Mac with two graphics cards you will need to dig a little to find the second one - Click Systemreport, and select "Graphics/Display")
Processor 2.5 GHz intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 384 MB
Thank you!
Let's try theese settings:
Display Type - Full Screen
Resolution - 1280x800
Retina Resolution: off (if it's available)
Vertical Sync - No
Sims – Medium
Objects - Medium
Lighting – Low or Medium
Reflections - Low or Medium
Visual Effects - Medium
Edge Smoothing - low, maybe medium
3D Scene Resolution - Low
View Distance - Low
Uncompressed Sim Textures - No
Post Processing Effects - No
Laptop Mode - No
And to control your amount of frames per second, open the cheat console by holding down CTRL + SHIFT and then pressing C. Type: fps on
and hit return. The amount of frames per second should be shown in the lower left corner.
The funny thing with the sims 4 is, that even at a low setting most things look okay. And turning up the effects requires a lot of power.
But try this at first. I would like to know your FPS average. If it works I can give good advice to others, and if it doesn't work, I have an idea of how far I am off.
I appreciate you helping so much!
I have turned on the fps but the number keeps changing.
Also if I 'tab out' of the game my mac is much slower than usual.
I just got Get To Work, and it didn't happen before that...
However I did discover, that if I turned all the settings to low, applied them, and then turned them up again to my normal settings the performance was restored.
It did fix some issues such as the Reach Level of Career goals and more than one Sim being able to grab food from the fridge at the same time. Some others are not such as Sims autonomously drinking, Sims Napping instead of Sleeping, and some Sims tending to Troll autonomously.
I really like to know what problems version 1.5 (March update) of TS4 caused on the Mac version of The Sims 4.
- Slower loading times, specifically from selecting the household to actually playing them. Also travelling.
- Increased lag on lower spec. machines. Probably due to the integrated GPUs.
- More frequent vmmap crashes (memory related).
- Sims sometimes stand around motionless, like the game is trying to catch up. More frequent since the patch.
I found a Mac Simmer known as scarymary378 posting a thread about Time Buttons lagging who said that they have a MacBook Pro running on Medium settings. I'm thinking the lag that scarymary378 is experiencing could be linked to the issues mentioned in this thread. scarymary378 didn't state which MacBook Pro was used but I'm guessing it's probably the 13" MacBook Pro. I'm not sure when the user will reply since I haven't seen his/her reply today.
I'm adding this to the bug thread because it's so widespread.
Could it have been your previous graphics settings? Have you changed them from the default ones since starting a clean game?
> Just turn on laptop mode
Do you actually HAVE a (Mac) laptop…? There is no such thing as "laptop mode". If there was, don't you think we'd have all switched it on by now…?