Flickering screen after CC
Hello there, I experienced something VERY wierd and confusing yesterday: I was looking forward to playing the Sims 3 for a long time, and did a test run of it. Everything went fine. There was no pr...
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@drkatrine If your laptop's support recommended graphics card driver updates, then that's the first thing you should do. Once you update, if the blinking doesn't go away, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post here.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
The apps I use to monitor my hardware are hwinfo and GPU-Z. The first shows info about all hardware, from the motherboard to the case fans, and the second is just for graphics cards. But both will show the overall load on your card as well as a number of more in-depth stats. You can also log a session with either app, so you can see how the stats change over time as you're playing. Both are free.
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/
But there's not much point in running them unless you're actually playing a game. Otherwise, your card won't be working particularly hard, and the data probably wouldn't be useful unless there was some glaring error. More helpful would be the dxdiag, which might list certain hardware and software errors directly. Then once you've addressed those, you could install the game and see what happened.
And I agree, it's very strange that the flickering started after installing a custom world. I tend to think it's more likely a coincidence, or at most that running the Sims 3 launcher revealed a new issue that you hadn't seen up to that point. But it's just a guess without more information.
Thank you so much for your help!
The thing is that I will now get a new laptop - the situation is complicated but I'm in a situation where I can get a new laptop of the exact same kind - since the wierd screen stuff are still there after graphics updates.
I might do a dxdiag on the new laptop and throw in here just in case to make sure nothing is wrong, but I just made one of this laptop, so here you go, I hope the file works.
As you know my first language isn't English but Danish, which means stuff are probably written in Danish. I hope it's still understandable.
Let me know what you think and again, thank you so much for your help. 🙂
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