On the note of v-sync, if you have an Nvidia card (could have an ATI option too, but it's been a while since I had an ATI card) you can use adaptive v-sync.
While forcing v-sync on will protect your video card from having frame rates "run away" and overheat your card, it will not, nor will forcing triple buffering on, alter most causes of short lags/freezes. As the game completes these events in an inefficient manner, even a fast multi-core processor may hiccup when handling them. These are not video card limited events, but "AI" issues and is CPU bound. Most lags/freezes occur from routing issues and/or event completion (for example, end of school day when all the students get their grades updated, homework becomes available for completion, and they all need to leave to go home or to work or wherever). I believe there are similar options for ATI cards in the catalyst control suite that comes with ATI drivers, maybe that would work for ATI cards. I saw this tip on a youtube video and didn't expect it to work, but so far it really seems to.ĭisclaimer: I can't guarantee that this will work for others as I can't figure out why it works for me, also Rivatuner is software designed for NVidia cards and may not work on an ATI card, I can't test that as I don't have one. Leave that running and start up the sims, no more long pauses. Run D3D overrider and add the sims executable to the list with the plus icon and turn on V-sync and force triple buffering.
I managed to find a link for a standalone version (if requested I could probably provide a link) You can get it as part of the rivatuner package (free download) from the rivatuner website: If like me your game has the freezing issue, where sims will get stuck for minutes at a time, some of the animations and sounds will still play but clicking won't do anything.
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