Re: How to make Sims 3 recognise graphics card?

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Re: How to make Sims 3 recognise graphics card?

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Okay, she's set it to 60.

 

That's all then I guess Standard smile Thank you so much for your time and help. I really appreciate it Standard smile

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Re: How to make Sims 3 recognise graphics card?

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@puzzlezaddict Hi there, I am having the exact same issue and it's driving me mental. Please help?

=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Name (database): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 [Found: 0, Matched: 0]
Vendor: NVIDIA
Chipset: Vendor: 10de, Device: 1f15, Board: 1e211043, Chipset: 00a1
Driver: nvldumd.dll, Version: 31.0.15.1640, GUID: D7B71E3E-5C55-11CF-9B75-2E3E0EC2D235
Driver version: 1640
Monitor: \\.\DISPLAY1
Texture memory: 32MB <<OVERRIDE>>
Vertex program: 3.0
Pixel program: 3.0
Hardware TnL: 1
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Re: How to make Sims 3 recognise graphics card?

@zwemmendemelk  You'll need to edit two files within the game's program files, likely in one of these locations:

 

Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 3\Game\Bin

Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 3\Game\Bin

 

First, open graphicscards.sgr (Notepad is fine).  Click crtl-F and search for 10de , which will bring you to these lines:

 

vendor "NVIDIA" 0x10b4 0x12d2 0x10de
card 0x0fd1 "GeForce GT 650M"
card 0x0fd2 "GeForce GT 640M"

 

Create a new line under the one that says Nvidia and copy and paste this:

 

	card 0x1f15 "GeForce RTX 2060"

Make sure this line is indented like the ones below it; the lines in my file are one Tab in from the left.  Save, close the file, and open graphicsrules.sgr.  Search for 8800 , which will take you here:

 

elseif (match("${cardName}", "*8800*") or match("${cardName}", "*9500*") or match("${cardName}", [etc.]

 

Change the bolded 8800 to 2060 , but don't change or delete any of the other characters, not even the asterisks.  This will designate your card as uber-level, as it should be.

 

Finally, scroll to the top of the file and find this, 8-10 lines down:

 

if ($textureMemory == 0)
seti textureMemory 32
setb textureMemorySizeOK false

 

Change the 32 to a 1024 and put a # and a space in front of setb (and leave the other spaces on the left intact).  This will tell the game your graphics card has 1 GB VRAM instead of none.  It has more than that, but Sims 3 can only use 800 MB anyway.

 

Save, close the file, load the game, quit, and check deviceconfig again.  You should see a [Found: 1, Matched: 1] next to your graphics card's name, and a few lines down, the "texture memory" (VRAM) should read 1024 instead of 32.

 

If this doesn't work, please post the same section of the deviceconfig as you did this time.

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