If there’s one topic we – and pretty much anyone else covering The Sims 4 – seem to bang on about, it’s performance (or lack thereof). After more than a decade, The Sims 4 is showing its age.
But that might all be changing, or at least improving with the debut of the new memory boost feature.
Getting a boost
In essence, memory boost is designed to give you an increased memory usage, reduce lag, and improved frame rate – as well as other generally good stuff. More than likely the fact this is opt-in is to prevent players with older hardware being left out.
But for the rest of us it means that, yes, The Sims 4 might be on the way to running like a modern release! Judging from the step-by-step guide recently released by EA, it seems as if a core part of this is running TS4 in DirectX11, so you won’t be able to use older versions for that.
And if you do decide to try it out you won’t need to worry about your older saves being altered. When you enable memory boost any new saves made with it turned on will be flagged, meaning you can always revert back if it doesn’t play nice with your PC.
Getting in early
Now, it’s important to note this feature is early access. Which in essence means this is not a guaranteed silver bullet for any issues you may be having. But it does indicate that EA and Maxis are looking with a keen eye to solving issues players have had with The Sims 4 for more than a while now.
It’s a welcome change, and one no doubt many of you have been crying out for a good long while now. It could also help a lot with the technical issues that have made TS4’s many expansion packs a problem for players for so long now.
A lifelong Maxis fan who grew up with SimCity 3000 and the lesser-known DS titles in the Sims catalogue, Iwan brings the obscure knowledge of things that have been and will be when it comes to The Sims.
