*** GTX 770 + Win 8.1 - GRAPHICS NOT FOUND
I have a brand new, high-end PC that I built. It has an EVGA GTX 770 and Windows 8.1 Update 1 w/ latest drivers. Latest Sims 3 patch installed (1.67). When I first tried to play the game, I received...
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not even if you run the game ( all game ,expansion and stuff packs run as admin and in compatibly mode windows 7 ?
How are they going to run under admin if they have the new origin?? New uptae version of Origin wont let you run the game under admin. I know before with the old origin we could run under admin. Running under windows 7 the game looked horrible for me anyway. I was fine just running under admin windows 8 bypassing the launcher and origin.
EA has not kept up as new generations of graphics chip that have come out. Basically what you need to do is fool the GraphicsRules.sgr script into thinking the GTX 770 is the same as a card that is closest to it. The GTX 770 is based on the the GK104 core which is the same core as the GTX 660 (not the mobile version but that may work) . You need to start with the codes that are returned when the program asks for the codes. These will be in the DeviceCinfiglog file. Mine are Vendor 10de, Device 1244 for a GTX 550Ti. You have to have your codes (I don't know what they are for a GTX 770) and get the GraphicRules.sgr script to identify your codes.
I did all that and it worked, but the graphical issues were not fixed.
How much Texture memory is reported im the DeviceConfig.log file? Does your dxdiag say Window 8 or Windows 8.1?
how did you bypass origin like that? I just bought a new computer that has windows 8. i havent used it yet and i also bought a bunch of sims 3 games. Do the games actually work on a windows 8?
right now with new origin you can't bypass origin . Im speaking to EA and have a claim opened trying to resolve the issue. I am doing a new install of the game because things were missing in the launcher options. This happened before and after I did a full system restore. I am now doing a new install again to see if things are missing. I did not have this problem with my old game on windows 8 so this looks like it's an EA problem caused maybe by the new patch or Origin. Don't know for sure. Im running tests at this point.
Before I did the system restore. Game ran pretty well on windows 8. Was running several EP's but not Pets. I ran the game on med, 8 GB ram, quad core, dual AMD graphics (med level card. ) no issues for a long time other than some of the known glitches in the sims like stuck sims, etc. I wasnt having save issues until the files got bigger and figued out bypassing origin and the launcher gave me quick and clean saves. The game loded quicker too bypassing the launcher and origin
