Hey everyone, first time posting here but would greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Firstly I've searched my issue and found various accounts of people with similar problems but none of the solutions seem to have worked despite me spending many hours trying to fix it.
My issue is (as can be seen from the title) that I am unable to play Sims 3, upon clicking play in the launcher i am greeted with the above message. What's weird is that i have previously played Sims on this laptop and run it fine, even on fairly high settings. I hadn't played in a while and when I recently attempted to resume playing, no graphics card detected suddenly. There have been no changes since I last played so I am at a complete loss as to the cause of the problem.
I have the Sims 3 with all but around two expansion packs and no stuff packs and am playing on a laptop with duel graphics cards: Intel HD graphics 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce 710M (which i realise isn't the best dedicated graphics card but should be able to run Sims 3 and has run it perfectly fine in the past). I believe the problem is that the Sims 3 (or the entire laptop) are not utilising my dedicated graphics card.
Since receiving the message i have tried:
- Uninstalling and re-installing Sims 3 and all expansions
- Updating my graphics drivers
- Playing in window mode
- Using the NVIDIA control panel to set Sims 3 to use the NVIDIA graphics card
- Disabling the Intel graphics card
- Fiddling with various settings
- And finally attempting to edit the Graphicscards.sgr and GraphicsRules.sgr files to recognise my NVIDIA card (this was a little advanced for me and I may have made a mistake, however I have attempted this several times with various different codes and such, all with no improvement)
I also have an empty DeviceConfig.log which i have seen elsewhere people mention is helpful to have. The only potential solutions I have seen that I haven't tried are to restore the computer to a previous date or send it off, neither of which I am willing to do, however as it played before on this very laptop I am sure there must be a simpler solution?
If anyone has any idea how I might fix this problem i would be hugely grateful, i have wasted much time over this and would just like to enjoy playing god with little people once again.
