Hello! Im currently in the process of getting the sims 3 to recognize my Geforce RTX 3050 graphics card. Whenver i try to make changes and save them a message would pop up saying “you dont have permission to change this file” or im not an administrator when its my laptop. Is there anyway i can fix this and how can i get my game to recognize my graphics?

@PaigePlays4 Restart your computer and try again, still with the EA App and EABackgroundService not running. (Make sure the App doesn't start wtih Windows.) If that doesn't help, is this an admin Windows account? It needs to be in order to make these changes. If it is, then try temporarily disabling your antivirus, just long enough to edit the files.

Cant save changes made to graphics card

11 Replies

Tremayne4260
Hero
3 years ago
@PaigePlays4 , Hi, I've moved your post to the Sims 3 forums. Someone here should be able to help you.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
3 years ago
@PaigePlays4 Close the the EA App, and make sure the EABackgroundService is NOT running in the Task Manager. Either one can block changes to an EA game's program files.
PaigePlays4
3 years ago
Hi! it still wont let me save... this is the message i get when i try
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
3 years ago
@PaigePlays4 Restart your computer and try again, still with the EA App and EABackgroundService not running. (Make sure the App doesn't start wtih Windows.)

If that doesn't help, is this an admin Windows account? It needs to be in order to make these changes. If it is, then try temporarily disabling your antivirus, just long enough to edit the files.
PaigePlays4
3 years ago
@puzzlezaddict This worked thank you! i do have another concern though... when i open my deviceconfig it says "found 0 matched 1" is there anyway i can fix this?
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
3 years ago
@PaigePlays4 Have you started the game since you made the changes to the .sgr files? If not, that's the first thing to do: the DeviceConfig.log doesn't refresh until the game launches.

Otherwise, the [Found: 0] means that your graphics card's device ID isn't in graphicscards.sgr. That in turn means that you didn't do the edit correctly, for example maybe you used the wrong device ID; or that the change to the .sgr file didn't stick. If you'd like me to review your work, just post the "Graphics device info" section of DeviceConfig as well as a screenshot of the section of the .sgr file you changed. Please include any edits you made to graphicsrules.sgr as well.
PaigePlays4
3 years ago
Yes i've started the game multiple times. i figured out how to change my graphics settings but for some reason everytime i launch the game my graphics are reset. is there any way i can fix this?
PaigePlays4
2 years ago
Hi! i've been having this problem where my device.config for the game says found 1 matched 0. can anyone help me with this? below are my graphics rules and device.config logs
seti isCardMatched true
elseif (match("${cardName}", "*8800*") or match("${cardName}", "*9500*") or match("${cardName}", "*9600 GSO*") or match("${cardName}", "*9600 GT*") or match("${cardName}", "*9800 *") or match("${cardName}", "*GTX 2??*") or match("${cardName}", "*2?00M*") or match("${cardName}", "*3?00M*") or match("${cardName}", "*Quadro*FX 5??0*") or match("${cardName}", "*GT 1?0*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTS 150*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTS 250*") or match("${cardName}", "*GT 2??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTS 2??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTX 2??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GeForce G2??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GT 3??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTS 3??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTX 3??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GeForce 3??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GT 4??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTS 4??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTX 4??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GT 5??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTS 5??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTX 5??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GT 6??*") or match("${cardName}", "*GTX 6??*"))
seti cardLevel $cardLevelUber
seti isCardMatched true
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
2 years ago
@PaigePlays4 What exactly is reset: your in-game graphics options, or something in DeviceConfig or graphicsrules.sgr or some other file?

The reason your GPU is now found but not matched is because there is no entry in graphicsrules.sgr that matches the card, at least from what you've pasted here. The easiest way to fix this is to replace the 8800 with RTX 3050 , with nothing else changed or deleted, not even the asterisks.
SimmerForver
2 years ago
Hi I am having the same issue and did everything you recommended, but i still cant edit the file. Do you have any other tips?