Intense Lag!!

[Minty]

(09-02-2012 08:16 AM)Vytasb Wrote:  Hi all. I got Sims 3 recently, and the game has been working fine for a few days, and now, its crazy laggy and unplayable. Its just no fun with how much lag there is. the strangest thing is, im playing on my Alienware M17x R3 with 8gb ram and an I7 processor PLUS im playing off a Crucial M4 Sata 3 solid state drive, so why would my game be so laggy?

Here are the full specs on my system

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.as...re+m17x+r3

It's really annoying! Thanks everyone!!!

This should really be in Technical Talk, but never mind - I'd rather there was only the one Sims 3 section anyway!

So you tried asking this in Yahoo, got no response, and came to us as a last resort?

How do I know?




"VE MAKE IT OUR BUSINESS TO KNOW!"

(I loved the response you got from the person advising you to go to Snooty Sims, they're as much help to anyone not in their teen gang as broken glass in your dinner!)

First up, that isn't a games computer you have. That is God reincarnated in Silicon form. There should be no lag whatsoever. At least, with any normal game. However, you have Sims 3, which until last year did not even recognise there was such a concept as computers with over 2 GB's of RAM!

The usual culprit is too much custom content. Doesn't matter how big or powerful your computer is, there appears to be a tolerance limit as to how much the game can take.

Custom content hairs are often major culprits due to the high poly count bringing the game to its knees because the coding was never up to much. Another is having too many worlds in your game. Yeah, yeah, it shouldn't be a resource hog if you aren't using them, but like I said this isn't a normal game you are dealing with.