"igazor;c-17594390" wrote:
Okay good, this is progress. It would still be best to somehow get into the control panel for that Intel HD integrated chip to coax vsync into working properly.
But since the game is working and the fps is now capped without screen tears in windowed mode, there is an alternative and that is to embrace windowed mode but use Windowed Borderless Gaming. This utility makes windowed mode look a lot more like full screen even though it really isn't and many players who are/were having Win 10 growing pains for different reasons along the way have found it very helpful.
I was hoping it wouldn't come down to this, but I guess it's not the end of the world... I suppose Sims 3 being over a decade old is just something many of us need to accept and it won't run on newer computers the same way it did before... :disappointed: Oh well... I'm mostly glad I ended up getting the FPS issue fixed! Now I can safely play the game without the fear of my graphics card being killed! :smile:
On a side note, I have no idea if you have the answer to this, but why exactly does a game like Sims 3 cause a graphics card to overwork itself and basically "melt" or "fry" as a result? I fully understand it's a precaution we need to take and I'll never risk it, but why is it so important to cap the FPS?
