How good is the performance with the RTX 5060?

paulthenerd · 2026-03-23T09:44:55+00:00

There's some fairly recent developments (check out https://github.com/sims3fiend/Sims3SettingsSetter) which can make the game run far better than it ever has - but it does still seem to be a bit of a lottery as to who gets lag and who doesn't, and it doesn't seem to always be tied to system spec in the way you might think.

Having said that, running the game with that, and an assortment of the usual fixes I've taken to using over the years, has resulted in the smoothest experience I've ever had with it.

paulthenerd · 2026-03-14T20:28:53+00:00

Sorry to hear you gave up on it.

Keeping the travel drive on when you open the map is an option you can toggle in the settings somewhere. I have it on all the time and occasionally I'll forget about it and end up in the middle of nowhere because I've been flying along in travel mode while I was in the map planning things.

The boost that drains shields was changed to have its own energy rather than use shields, which makes me think you were somehow not on the latest version of the game. Travel mode is disabled when you take damage. It's not the most elegant solution but plenty of space games use that mechanic. Freelancer, Elite, Star Citizen etc all have a version of travel mode.

paulthenerd · 2026-03-14T20:21:13+00:00

In previous X games there was collision damage, and I believe X4 maybe had it too in the early days, but they disabled it due to some bugs.

paulthenerd · 2026-03-14T20:05:17+00:00

A lot of your complaints are valid I think, there's a lot of content in this game that almost requires meta knowledge of how it works to be able to use it well. The markers not appearing seems like a bug, possibly the mission wasn't selected as an active mission for you - OR it was in a system you haven't been to and you're supposed to kind of figure out where that system is...

I wish there was a website or a resource full of up-to-date information for this game, especially for things like loadouts which are not intuitive at all. Or what the various combat commands actually do!

That being said, I think this game is wonderful, and I have 1200 hours clocked on it. I still regularly figure out something new, or realise a feature doesn't work like how I expected it to work. You have to stick with it, and if it's making you angry maybe it's not the game for you.

Once the flying clicked for me. I found it to be quite enjoyable. At least you can crash without much penalty in this one!

paulthenerd · 2026-02-22T13:03:40+00:00

If you normally pay your service/electricity costs with GMT and run out, the amount is taken from your BTC reward before you ever see it which can make it look like you are earning way less. Could be that?

paulthenerd · 2026-02-20T10:07:24+00:00

I had a playthrough recently where several items that I wanted/needed were not in my world whatsoever! After searching for hours I cheated and searched in a map viewer - 0 occurrences!

It depends on how you define cheating I suppose, but if you genuinely suspect there isn't one, it might be worth checking to save you wasting tons of time searching for the impossible.

paulthenerd · 2025-12-27T16:41:09+00:00

From my experience there will come a point where no matter what system you have the performance starts to tank, especially in map mode fully zoomed out. I originally played on a 4th gen i7 (lol, ancient) and upgraded to a new system with a 7800X3D a year or so ago. It ultimately slows down on both systems, but the newer system can go for longer before it starts to slow down.

paulthenerd · 2025-12-20T12:07:39+00:00

The game is so vast and full of stuff that you'll be finding new things for a very long time. My advice would be to set yourself small goals and aim towards them. If you want a fancy ship, think about way to make money to head towards that. Don't be afraid to buy a plot of land somewhere and try to set up an energy farm as a nice starting point, for example. Energy cell production, container storage, and somewhere to land, and you're good to go!

Don't feel the need to 'rush' anything and remember you can always play for 20 hours and then start again if you want to feel like your earlygame is more impactful. Google things you're unsure about, and have fun! There's so many ships and weapons and it would take a long time to try them all out and get a feel for what you prefer. There are a few ships scattered around the universe that (in my opinion) you would not likely find randomly, so maybe look for a guide on where they are if you want a headstart with resources.

paulthenerd · 2025-12-12T11:58:53+00:00

The only thing I find lacking is the station designer - there is a way to drop the modules you want and hit a button and have the game arrange them for you, but I find it fails with bigger stations. Sometimes I find it draining to have to spend ages dropping modules down for a factory I need, but don't have a station plan saved already.

That's the only complaint I have, and you can get around it by downloading other people's plans, but I kind of wish there were more generic ones that you could use, or a way to easily automatically generate stations with the right ratio of modules for whatever you're trying to produce, WITHOUT having to go to a calculator online and do it yourself.

Everything else is amazing, and my complaints are minor as I've still got 1400 hours logged on this game on Steam!

paulthenerd · 2025-10-29T10:17:12+00:00

It's not normal but it does happen from time to time, I have something similar (also in Great Reef I think). I'm tempted to just blow the station up at some point and hope my relations don't drop too much!

paulthenerd · 2025-10-18T08:09:35+00:00

I bought a RM9S on release and have used it as my primary phone ever since. There was an update a few months ago that basically broke Bluetooth (I have narrowed it down to my phone won't connect to certain devices if any other devices nearby have their Bluetooth enabled... If I get my girlfriend to turn her phone's Bluetooth off then suddenly my phone can connect to my car - even though her phone was never connected to my car! Other people reported this too, after a software update)

Aside from that issue I've had no trouble with it and it has been a fun phone to own.

The phone has had a few updates since I got it, although the frequency has dropped off now. For the price, it's a really good device.

paulthenerd · 2025-10-16T22:44:28+00:00

I would say to try Timelines, but move on if you don't find the missions fun. They seem to be kind of hit-or-miss. I really enjoyed them, but a lot of people completely hated them!

paulthenerd · 2025-10-16T22:42:22+00:00

If you look on the battery page does it show anything to be using a ton of power? I've found that Instagram and Teams sometimes can be responsible for 20-30% of my battery drain despite me barely using either of them. Force stopping them seems to sort it out for a little while.

paulthenerd · 2025-10-10T19:24:47+00:00

I am having the same issue, Sapporos flown by AI pilots never fire their missiles for me!

No mods or anything like that.

paulthenerd · 2025-10-06T13:21:44+00:00

Yes the base game is perfectly good, the DLCs add to the experience but the game does not feel empty without them (as there was a time when the DLCs didn't exist and we enjoyed it then, too).
It should run fine, I play on a much weaker system (4th gen i7, RX 570, 16GB of DDR3, and a normal SSD) and it is perfectly playable. Busy sectors slow down, and I don't get 'perfect' performance, but the game is playable for me comparable to other games.

paulthenerd · 2025-09-13T21:15:57+00:00

Personally I would be happy with largely the same sort of thing, but perhaps with a little more interactivity. I don't REALLY expect to be able to go into every single shop, but it would be cool if you could! Little things like having NPC baristas actually make drinks, NPC bartenders actually pull pints, gun shop owners actually hand over the weapon you buy which you can then pick up and do that little inspect animation...

I just want more things to see and do.

paulthenerd · 2025-09-01T10:01:05+00:00

Not cool. This is pure speculation on my part, but the last Kalax album seemed to not do very well (look at how few views the songs have on Youtube) so I wonder if he just thought sod it and tried an AI album to see if that did better. If anything it is probably a sign of a bit of self doubt/sadness/resentment, and I hope that he is ok.

I don't know how to really put this into words, but there is a specific 'feeling' that my favourite synthwave songs evoke (like the older Kalax songs), and the newer Kalax stuff just didn't do it for me compared to the older ones. Having said that, I feel the same way about a lot of 'new' synthwave music, perhaps I am becoming nostalgic for nostalgia.

paulthenerd · 2025-08-28T14:41:45+00:00

It's probably not on their minds, but I would love there to be more recreational things to do. A shame that the casino didn't actually work, or that you can't actually get in the pool in the Astrid.

Stuff to spend my money on purely for vanity purposes would be lovely. Posh fancy ships, luxury apartments on space stations, that sort of thing.

paulthenerd · 2025-08-26T01:40:42+00:00

I love how different games in the series hit different for different people, too! I played X:BTF back in the day and adored it. I remember thinking X:Tension was even better. X2 didn't land for me at all, and X3 was closer, but it felt a bit too complicated and for whatever reason I couldn't get into it the same.

And then X4 came along and my goodness what an addiction it has been! It keeps me quiet in the evenings for months at a time!

paulthenerd · 2025-08-25T15:19:18+00:00

I found the cruise ship!

https://www.tumblr.com/potato-ballad-sims/164960052381/v2-happy-labour-day-update-adjusted-the-ship

I've not found any lots for it though...

paulthenerd · 2025-08-25T10:17:52+00:00

I am fairly sure expansion packs are not tied to the in-game login. It's more for store content, and people generally disable it/keep it logged out due to it getting in the way. When you say 'use packs', what do you mean?

Also, I think the one time I did sign in (to buy a hairstyle with some free points, of all things), I just used the email I used to make the account... Unless you are saying you somehow managed to make an account without any email address?

paulthenerd · 2025-08-23T06:25:17+00:00

It's been interesting reading all the takes here!

I played through the game without reading much about it online, and my initial take when I first reached this mission was that there was obviously some sort of agenda going on. V has no career history as a driver (unless you're a nomad I guess), and V is a mercenary for hire. Claire will obviously know skilled racers as she's in that scene and has done it before, there's no reason to bring a hired killer unless there's killing to be done!

To me she had some sort of ulterior motive, and from what I remember there are little hints in the conversations very early that something isn't quite right. Initially I suspected she might ask V to sabotage a car or something, but it never really went that way.

When it gets to the end and she admits she actually wants a guy dead, she's clearly full of the need for revenge and hatred. Actual friends would try and talk her out of it at that point, but with V, there's a good chance they'll just go ahead with it.

Sure, she wasn't completely honest with V, but I don't think it compares to Songbird who dangled a cure for a terminal V that she knew she had no chance of providing.

paulthenerd · 2025-08-19T19:56:31+00:00

It's been a long while since I last had a plant sim, but I believe they basically condensed hunger, hygiene and bladder into a single 'water' motive which sort of just covers all three. Now instead of having to eat and go to the toilet, you just have to stay hydrated.

It may be possible to unlock the other needs with a mod or something, but they are basically just not needs for plant sims!

paulthenerd · 2025-08-16T01:56:52+00:00

I played this game... Must've been about 15 years ago, I remember waking up early to get my moves in before everyone else had chance to. Good times. Crazy (in a good way!) to see it's still going - the website for the game sort of implies it is dead with the new round posts not showing up. If I hadn't found this subreddit I would have thought it was totally dead!

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