Stutter - was it always like this?

[Lupara]

RTX 4090 with 9800x3D

Sims 2 stutters a lot. Like micro stutter or bad frame pacing

Has the game always been like this?

It’s not very smooth and I’m surprised sims players are so accepting of this kind of thing
I guess most of them don’t play games outside of the sims and just assume every game runs like this

[NeoJ4K3]

The only time I stutter is lots of sims on fastest forward mode. But it is a bit....janky to some extent

Regular game play and 2x fast forward for buttery for me, especially once you build up a cache.

[Lupara]

Originally posted by NeoJ4K3:

The only time I stutter is lots of sims on fastest forward mode. But it is a bit....janky to some extent

Regular game play and 2x fast forward for buttery for me, especially once you build up a cache.

What are your specs?

You really have 0 stutter and a perfectly flat frame time graph?
Every sims 2 YouTuber seems to have the same issue as me

Microstutters when moving the camera around especially on maps with a lot of sims and activity

[Akane Rose🌹]

yeah the game seems always been like this since i was kid apparently, but it feels unnoticeable if i don't active the fps counter. or maybe i just got used to it lol. RTX 3060 user btw

[iEnlightened]

I have also been playing this game for a long time, and stutters and fps drops were always a thing in the day. Especially when you used the forward mode. This game always had issues, and bugs that were never fixed by Maxis. It doesn't matter if you have capable hardware.

Originally posted by The Alchemist:

It’s not very smooth and I’m surprised sims players are so accepting of this kind of thing
I guess most of them don’t play games outside of the sims and just assume every game runs like this

Unfortunately, the average sims player is a computer illiterate that only plays the sims or just cozy little games, mainly on a laptop. For over a decade, most of the "simmers" were scared to touch the sims 2 because of the "game/neighborhood/save corruption" rumors. Some believed that the game would break, if they clicked on something wrong or were visited by some cursed NPC.

They either assume that it's fate and give up, or that modders can and will fix the game for EA.

Besides, most of the simmers are playing the sims 4, they don't care about the re-release and probably never played the old games.

[NeoJ4K3]

Originally posted by The Alchemist:

Originally posted by NeoJ4K3:

The only time I stutter is lots of sims on fastest forward mode. But it is a bit....janky to some extent

Regular game play and 2x fast forward for buttery for me, especially once you build up a cache.

What are your specs?

You really have 0 stutter and a perfectly flat frame time graph?
Every sims 2 YouTuber seems to have the same issue as me

Microstutters when moving the camera around especially on maps with a lot of sims and activity

ryzen 5 5600x, 32gb ram, 3060?

I'll pay more attention to the micro stuttering next time i play, maybe its there and i didn't notice. Sometime i'm not terribly sensitive to frame rate issues as i play on held held consoles mostly lol. steam deck sometimes hates me but it seems to run it quite well as well