bad draw distance?

@hiyessims  I have no idea what's going on in the first screenshot.  Is that Photoshopped or two images combined, or is that what you actually see on your screen?  And what world does it happen in?

For the second and third screenshots, the relevant setting is high-detail lots: any lots in the image above that number are rendered in low detail regardless of your other settings.  But increasing this setting past 3 or 4 can severely impact game performance: even though your machine can handle it, the game engine cannot, for various reasons.  I leave this on 2 while playing and only increase it on the rare occasion I want a nice screenshot.

Anti-aliasing won't have any effect on either of these issues.  It only smooths out what would otherwise be jagged lines and borders.

yes sorry about the first images, and the trees show up so ugly! the buildings isn't the biggest issue its the trees from far away, some just look like 2 pieces of paper crossed over each other. my game didn't look like this before on my really old laptop even. 

i read the Anti-aliasing on another sims forum: https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/490839/graphics-problem-weird-trees

the trees also like rotate as i rotate the camera around town?

@hiyessims  Map View is very low-resolution and always has been.  I don't know of any way to fix this; it would likely take a mod that, as far as I know, no one has ever made.  I would guess it's a resource-saving measure by EA, and I personally just try to ignore it.

As for the trees in the distance when you're not using Map View, you could play around with this setting in graphicsrules.sgr:

option TreeQuality
     [...]
	setting $VeryHigh
	    prop $ConfigGroup RenderTreeLargeLODDistances  "30, 400, 3000, 3300"
	    prop $ConfigGroup RenderTreeSmallLODDistances  "30, 350,  3000, 3300"
	    prop $ConfigGroup RenderTreeShrubLODDistances  "30, 300,  3000, 3300"
	    prop $ConfigGroup RenderTreeGroundLODDistances "15, 80,  3000, 3300"

Sufficiently increasing the second value for each parameter should give you moderately-detailed trees in the distance.  But it's also going to increase the demands on the game engine, just so you're aware.

As for the trees rotating, I haven't noticed that myself.  Does it only happen to trees in the distance, or up close too?

From what I've found online other people who had this issue had old AMD graphics cards who had this issue so i'm not sure why i am having it.. and they fixed it with what I said before. but ive changed all those 3d settings and gone back in and out of game so many times and its not fixing. 

When 'm in game sometimes the trees disappear and re appear. just a few spaces away from where my lot is. the trees look awful from far away too. like they are flat textures painted.

I'll try to mess with graphicss rule 😞

I don't think i can get it to properly work, but its okay it doesn't make it unplayable, thanks for your time.