Well, it's been a while since I played, The Sims 3, about a few years ago when I had my 8800 GT. I had camera stutter and lag then, and now I am still getting it a few years later with my GTX 970. I followed many steps including how to get the Sims 3 to recognize The Sims 3. I did that memory override trick to give it 1024MB texture memory, I installed the overwatch mod, and I am only using the base game with no expansion packs selected. I also have vsync forced on via Nividia control panel. However, after all of this I'm still getting that horrible camera lag and stuttering which making the game really difficult to play. Has anyone ever fixed this or even played this game without no camera stuttering or lag at all?
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I understand that you have arranged for vsync, but have you checked your actual fps rates in-game using the fps on cheat or by some other means to make sure it's holding?
Lag however means different things to different players. The usual definition is where the game clock stalls for more than a real time minute or two but the animations keep moving. Then it bursts forward and stalls again repeatedly making proper gameplay frustrating or nearly impossible. Is this what you are seeing or is it something else?
In case you are not familiar with it, there is a large collection of tips to improve gameplay here. Maybe something there will register as worthy of trying out, if not everything on the page?
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Tips+For+Better+Game+Performance
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In all worlds or just certain ones? Isla Paradiso, for example, is known to be quite laggy due to badly designed lots with routing issues. Bridgeport is probably the next worse.
I was going to mention those, but note the OP is playing the base game only so they wouldn't have EP worlds. Custom ones maybe, though.
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PS I don't have problems with TS2. Im on windows 8. You might want to ask people in the TS2 section. Some of them have found fixes. http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-2-general-discussion
Oh, I missed that.
To the OP: I don't get smooth panning with the camera with this game very much. It's worse in older saves but the game (for me) is still playable. The suttering comes and goes. I don't think I'll ever get totally smooth gameplay with TS3, not like other games. There are steps to minimize it but some stuttering and lag comes with the territory, IMO.
Bought the game and all the DLC while it was on sale on Steam and wanted to try it for the nostalgia (had phys copy 6 years ago but lost it). Sad I can't get back to it
Unfortunately, I don't think it's ever going to work properly for me. I think it has to do with the game's programming and hardware setups not just the graphic's card. The same thing is happening with The Sims 2, but others are not experiencing this. So, I'm just sticking with The Sims 4, it runs smoothly and I think it's a great game. It just would have been nice to play another Sims game alongside The Sims 4.
Have you actually checked in-game with the fps on cheat code to make sure that the fps limit you have specified is really being honored?
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Is this a laptop with dual graphics? Although this really doesn't make any logical sense, another player recently reported that they also needed to enable vsync on their Intel chip using, I suppose, some sort of control panel for Intel even though the game was already using their Nvidia card and they got success with that.
@phoebebebe13 - Do you recall how that one went?
Edit: Found the thread I was thinking of, in case this is of any use.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/15174367/#Comment_15174367
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If your getting screen tearing with vsync maybe you have a bad driver
Edit. I thought you had a desktop. My mistake. I would download and save the latest Nvidia driver from your laptop manufacturer. Nvidia direct drivers are for desktop
Disconnect from the internet and uninstall your current driver http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_13955.html
Install the new driver you saved and then reconnect to the internet
Start the game make sure vsync is working