How to change the game's refresh rate?

[бибизянка!]

My monitor supports 144 hz but the game only lets me choose 60 hz max...

[Chicken McNugget®]

dunno, on steam deck you can set up to 90hz

[XI_RiVaL_IX]

I actually had the game run at 144hz and now it runs at 60 like it's supposed to. I think it was something to do with when I added a second monitor and capture card settings. Anyways, when the game was running at 144fps it was obvious the game was not made with frames that high in mind. Animations were fine but when using the lock on follow camera on Sims the camera would stutter and pinball back and forth very fast. Now at 60fps it doesn't do that. So you might be better off at 60 really.

[Chaos Mana]

If you add a command line to Steam
-w
Will force the game to run in window mode and use your full refresh rate. Otherwise you can just tap ALT + ENTER to switch between full and window mode, the game screen should automatically sit to fit on your screen and you won't have the annoying black screen refresh when you tab out

[Tekkai]

Originally posted by Chaos Mana:

If you add a command line to Steam
-w
Will force the game to run in window mode and use your full refresh rate. Otherwise you can just tap ALT + ENTER to switch between full and window mode, the game screen should automatically sit to fit on your screen and you won't have the annoying black screen refresh when you tab out

Is there any way to alt tab in full screen withouth the loading screen?

[Chaos Mana]

Originally posted by Tekkai:

Originally posted by Chaos Mana:

If you add a command line to Steam
-w
Will force the game to run in window mode and use your full refresh rate. Otherwise you can just tap ALT + ENTER to switch between full and window mode, the game screen should automatically sit to fit on your screen and you won't have the annoying black screen refresh when you tab out

Is there any way to alt tab in full screen withouth the loading screen?

Having the same refresh rate as your desktop, however you will still get a black screen as it drops out because that's just how Windows works when it comes to exclusive full screen apps such as games.

I could recommend you get Borderless Gaming from Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/388080/Borderless_Gaming/

This is how I borderless my game to make it easier to tab in and out without the Window being able to move around or have a weird resolution

[DRock]

I'm having the opposite problem - I'm trying to get the game to run at 30 fps instead of 60 fps, but my graphics card won't recognize the application as an actual game for some reason.

Maybe it's my in-game settings, but community lots drop to 30 frames anyway so I'd rather max it out like that.

[Chaos Mana]

Originally posted by DRock:

I'm having the opposite problem - I'm trying to get the game to run at 30 fps instead of 60 fps, but my graphics card won't recognize the application as an actual game for some reason.

Maybe it's my in-game settings, but community lots drop to 30 frames anyway so I'd rather max it out like that.

Here's how you do it on NVidia

https://imgur.com/a/be7wWoA

[Chaos Mana]

Side note - Ignore the Anti Aliasing settings, I just really hate the jaggies, so I enhanced it. If your game is already running slow, then definitely DO NOT USE AA

[DRock]

Originally posted by Chaos Mana:

Originally posted by DRock:

I'm having the opposite problem - I'm trying to get the game to run at 30 fps instead of 60 fps, but my graphics card won't recognize the application as an actual game for some reason.

Maybe it's my in-game settings, but community lots drop to 30 frames anyway so I'd rather max it out like that.

Here's how you do it on NVidia

https://imgur.com/a/be7wWoA

Thanks for the help, but I'm still having trouble. When I add the game file to NVIDIA, the options (such as FPS, image sharpening, etc) are greyed out because NVIDIA isn't recognizing the application file as a game. I noticed in your screenshot, the game file says EA games whereas mine is in the steam common folder. Am I maybe looking in the wrong place, or did you get your game from EA instead of Steam?

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!

[Chaos Mana]

I'm subbed to EA Pro, so I have mine on EA Origin whatever they call it these days.

Check the dropdown menu instead of clicking add, and see if you can find the Sims there, 9/10 times you won't have to add it manually

[biceps always together!!]

Originally posted by Chaos Mana:

Originally posted by DRock:

I'm having the opposite problem - I'm trying to get the game to run at 30 fps instead of 60 fps, but my graphics card won't recognize the application as an actual game for some reason.

Maybe it's my in-game settings, but community lots drop to 30 frames anyway so I'd rather max it out like that.

Here's how you do it on NVidia

https://imgur.com/a/be7wWoA

Doesn't work, that's the first thing I tried too. I was able to find the game fine, the setting just has no effect.

Trying to lock the game to run at 120 instead of 240 because there's really no point in running it that high and waste electricity.

I noticed alt-tabbing brings the FPS down to ~50, so apparently the game does run at a lower refresh rate when not in focus (fullscreen windowed) which implies there is some way to control FPS.

[biceps always together!!]

Well, it's not ideal, but the game seems to automatically detect the screen refresh rate and cap itself to that, so going into Windows advanced display settings and changing the screen refresh rate effectively works as an FPS cap.