Hi everyone,I have a question about my graphics in the sims 3.My game runs fine, no problems there. But when I edit my sim in CAS (as well as in game it's also noticable) my sims hair seems to be grainy or ''pixelated''How can I combat this? I've not always had this problem.My specs arei5 7600K 3.8 ghznvidia geforce gtx 1050 ti, 4gb16gb ramCan any of you help me?Pictures of the problem:you have to look closely in the second picture.(the problem is the black ''dots'' surrounding the hair.. also, while not noticable on the screen, the hair itself is pixelated as well)

You are running what is essentially a 2008-09 game on 2017-18 hardware. There probably isn't much of a solution for things like this. Even with a hefty 4 GB of video memory (vram) as you have, the game can only utilize at most 800 MB of it.

I recently updated my driver to the latest one. I've noticed that turning that one option in Nvidia panel off.. the top one where you can go until like 16x .. can't recall the name, but turning that off fixed it for me, at least in CAS. In game it's still slightly pixelly but not as much as it used to be.

Turning off Anisotrophic filtering does fix it but I refuse to use that option when it makes playing the game look ugly. I have fiddled with the antialiasing settings in the control panel but nothing has made the grainy hair pixels go away. I only got this computer in November and never seen this sort of graphical problem before, even though my graphics card (GTX 1060 6GB) is recognised and way way better than the 630 I had before. All of my options are on high, including edge smoothing. I am now updated to the latest driver 390.77 with no changeFrom what I can tell, the problem started at the beginning of February. That's when I downloaded Nraas StoryProgression_Extra and StoryProgression_Career. I have taken them out, and all of the other cc I downloaded this month, just in case there was a confliction but things are still the same. I have reset my settings in game, restarted and turned them back up but it's still the same.The grainy part as you can see appear on the shiny part of the hair. It appears in all saves. Sometimes it's less with cc hair, but still noticeable. In game I couldn't notice it as much. :confused: https://s17.postimg.cc/tzijmon2n/Screenshot-37.jpgI started a test game on an empty world and I'm not sure if I'm just being paranoid now but everything just looks a bit more jagged from afar even though my anisotropic filtering is back at 16x. It's more noticeable around the green chairs.https://s17.postimg.cc/wguatyeov/Screenshot-38.jpgI feel like something between my graphics card and the game is conflicting but I'm not sure what to do about it now. Igazor helped me match my card to GeForce GTX 480, so it's not that. I'm out of ideas :confounded: Can someone upload their NVIDIA Control Panel settings for me? Since getting this computer I have never changed anything but I just want to check if I'm missing something here.Edit to say: Even when I regenerate a brand new Sims 3 folder the problem is still there.https://s17.postimg.cc/7ouon55cf/Screenshot.jpg

After a bit of testing I can confirm that the jagged lines only appear when I'm in fullscreen with my fps capped at 60.https://s17.postimg.cc/96g4yqs3j/Screenshot-41.jpgWhen I put my game into windowed mode the lines disappear, but my fps goes over 100.https://s17.postimg.cc/wxfigv7q7/Screenshot-42.jpg:tired_face:

I use Nvidia Control Panel + Nvidia Inspector since inspector has a few more options but both work together. I'm not sure why the control panel conflicts with in-game settings for some but not all. The only problem I experience is screen tearing with a certain option enabled through Inspector but that's it. I have quite a few things adjusted with both.My Control Panel settings:Anisotropic filtering 16xAntialiasing - Mode Override any application settingAntialiasing - Setting 8xAntialiasing - Transparency 8x (supersample)Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) OnPower management mode Prefer maximum performanceTexture filtering - Quality High qualityVertical sync On

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cocokayla
New Scout
7 years ago
@Odonata68 :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:
This is very promising! Thanks!
I will definitely try reverting my settings back because I had honestly given up hope.
cocokayla
New Scout
7 years ago
It worked!!!! Thank you both so much for your insight into this. :heart:

I tried tweaking the settings but if only I restored them to default at the start I wouldn't have had to go through this.

@jean I really hope this solution works for you too.

So shiny with not a single pixel in sight :smiley:

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JeanVW
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
Nobody who knows?
My game itself is fine, the anti aliasing works there. It only seems to not work for my hair.
Also the grainy thing is an issue.

Does someone knows what to do?
JeanVW
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
I just think it's weird that all of my game is rendered in anti aliasing but the hair isn't. Also the grainy and pixelated look wasn't always like this. It just suddenly came...
cocokayla
New Scout
7 years ago
I've noticed this all of a sudden with my game. It's really weird, just out of nowhere like you said @jean.
BGH22
7 years ago
Try reverting back to a previous Nvidia driver. Are you both on the same driver? http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
BGH22
7 years ago
@Jean Hopefully that helps others. If you see a change in your game after updating your drivers , my only suggestion is to go back to a previous driver to where your game played or looked better before. I have had to backdate drivers to get my game to play better. Sometimes an updated driver can cause game issues.
SimplyJen
Rising Spectator
7 years ago
Anisotropic Filtering? Sometimes settings via Control Panel can conflict with the games own settings. Screenshots are too small for me to really see but glad you found some sort of solution.
Hunter_Cottoney
7 years ago
Probably in the next update of your graphic card you can solve the problem.
BGH22
7 years ago
"Hunter_Cottoneye;c-16299358" wrote:
Probably in the next update of your graphic card you can solve the problem.

That usually does not happen. NVidia and AMD do not update their drivers to accommodate any sims games. It's hit or miss if a driver will interfere with the sims games.

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