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smdHannah
4 years ago

Can't change any settings in game

So I decided to play sims 3 again after a few months not playing it.

When I opened my game on the loading screen it was flickering and frozen, so I figured out that it would only do that when fullscreen mode was enabled, so I had to manually take off fullscreen mode in the Options.ini file

Doing this allowed me to get through to the main menu so I could access the options menu of the game, but everytime I try to change any of the video settings whether it be fullscreen mode, resolution or graphics quality my game just freezes

Can someone help me please, this never happened before.

I have already tried repairing the game through origin, and my windows and graphics drivers are up to date, and I tried deleting the options.ini file to refresh it and nothing has helped

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  • smdHannah's avatar
    smdHannah
    4 years ago
    @puzzlezaddict sorry to spam!

    I saw your post on another forum saying about Razer applications and to shut them down before opening the game and surprisingly that worked!
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    puzzlezaddict
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    4 years ago

    @smdHannah  Thanks for the update.  I'm not surprised at all, and that's why I suggested trying a clean boot (along with shutting down any extraneous processes) a few posts ago.  Other players have had issues with Razer software, but none have yet reported that they can't change the graphics settings, at least not where I've seen, so I wasn't expecting the software to have that effect.

    Anyway, Razer will probably clean up the issue soon enough, so you can try reinstalling whatever program you've been using in a week or two.

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