Sims 1 frame rate issue

[cal]

When I have 1 sim on screen it runs perfectly. More than one sim on screen absolutely tanks the performance. I absolutely love this game but it's almost unplayable if I want to get my social meter up. Anyone know of any potential fixes already? I know it's only been a few hours since it released.
Or I'll have to hope they update it at some point

[ClaireFairy666]

Originally posted by TamaraBee:

Originally posted by Mellanie94:

I have a fix for you guys lower your resolution of the game. dont play on 4k or 2k. play on 720p or 1080p for best fps. with the 720p you are not gonna have any ui issues.

how to lower resolution:
right click on desktop home screen.
screen settings --> screen resolution --> 1280x720

you have to do this every time you wanna play sims 1.

This is not true. I was playing on 800x600 resolution and have the same FPS problems.

same. lowering resolution did NOTHING

[☢BlakeGame☢]

There's zero difference in FPS when going from 800x600 to 4k. It's an issue with the new engine.

[ASweetLullaby]

i have this issue too, it work's fine for a while then slowly the frame rate drops to where the game crashes. It's a shame, as if it wasn't for this it would probably run alright! I hope they fix this in a patch soon.

[☢BlakeGame☢]

GUYS HOLY CRAP THE NEW UPDATE FIXED THE LAG IN THIS GAME!! I WENT FROM 14FPS TO 15FPS!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lecter]

Originally posted by ☢BlakeGame☢:

GUYS HOLY CRAP THE NEW UPDATE FIXED THE LAG IN THIS GAME!! I WENT FROM 14FPS TO 15FPS!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie (:

[Paulim Autopeças]

Guys, try enabling AMD's Performance Overlay, It worked for me. I noticed the fps goes up when I bring AMD overlay (alt + Z), so I tried the performance overlay and it worked! Looks like AMD GPUs doesn't "recognize" the game so they don't do anything to rasterize it lol. Enabling the performance overlay brings the fps up, though not to what should be full speed. For me it goes from 3fps up to 30, so it is at least playable now.

[camilozume]

Originally posted by Paulim Autopeças:

Guys, try enabling AMD's Performance Overlay, It worked for me. I noticed the fps goes up when I bring AMD overlay (alt + Z), so I tried the performance overlay and it worked! Looks like AMD GPUs doesn't "recognize" the game so they don't do anything to rasterize it lol. Enabling the performance overlay brings the fps up, though not to what should be full speed. For me it goes from 3fps up to 30, so it is at least playable now.

It actually works! But still unplayable for me when entering the magic world, maybe enabling other AMD options and this could work

[Paulim Autopeças]

Originally posted by Paulim Autopeças:

Guys, try enabling AMD's Performance Overlay, It worked for me. I noticed the fps goes up when I bring AMD overlay (alt + Z), so I tried the performance overlay and it worked! Looks like AMD GPUs doesn't "recognize" the game so they don't do anything to rasterize it lol. Enabling the performance overlay brings the fps up, though not to what should be full speed. For me it goes from 3fps up to 30, so it is at least playable now.

Turns out playing with an adobe illustrator file open makes the FPS even higher, maxing out, weird bug on AMD rly. You have to give the GPU something to make the core clock go up so the FPS doesn't drop

[Ice]

Originally posted by Paulim Autopeças:

Originally posted by Paulim Autopeças:

Guys, try enabling AMD's Performance Overlay, It worked for me. I noticed the fps goes up when I bring AMD overlay (alt + Z), so I tried the performance overlay and it worked! Looks like AMD GPUs doesn't "recognize" the game so they don't do anything to rasterize it lol. Enabling the performance overlay brings the fps up, though not to what should be full speed. For me it goes from 3fps up to 30, so it is at least playable now.

Turns out playing with an adobe illustrator file open makes the FPS even higher, maxing out, weird bug on AMD rly. You have to give the GPU something to make the core clock go up so the FPS doesn't drop

Wtf

[Hazz]

Originally posted by Paulim Autopeças:

Originally posted by Paulim Autopeças:

Guys, try enabling AMD's Performance Overlay, It worked for me. I noticed the fps goes up when I bring AMD overlay (alt + Z), so I tried the performance overlay and it worked! Looks like AMD GPUs doesn't "recognize" the game so they don't do anything to rasterize it lol. Enabling the performance overlay brings the fps up, though not to what should be full speed. For me it goes from 3fps up to 30, so it is at least playable now.

Turns out playing with an adobe illustrator file open makes the FPS even higher, maxing out, weird bug on AMD rly. You have to give the GPU something to make the core clock go up so the FPS doesn't drop

that is strange, you basically have to put a false load on your GPU to make it stay at 100% utilization whilst running the sims legacy.. it's so silly how they haven't fixed this yet!

[Crewitt]

Hopefully AMD can run a patch for this?

[Snoodle]

Originally posted by Crewitt:

Hopefully AMD can run a patch for this?

Well one of EA's CM has said that the devs are aware of this issue and are looking into it, so at least it isn't being totally swept under the rug

[Crewitt]

Originally posted by Snoodle:

Originally posted by Crewitt:

Hopefully AMD can run a patch for this?

Well one of EA's CM has said that the devs are aware of this issue and are looking into it, so at least it isn't being totally swept under the rug

Ah that's good, hopefully not to long then,

[Lecter]

Today's update fixed it for me!!!

[Snoodle]

All fixed! Thank you for everyone making this known on here and EA forums!