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lumigoomy
10 months ago
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Game crashes to desktop at community lot during winter

Hello. I have an issue that's been plaguing my game ever since I upgraded to a high end computer on a Windows 11. Every time it's winter and the ground starts to get frosty, my game crashes when I tr...
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    lumigoomy
    10 months ago

    I figured it out and will put it here in case someone else makes the same mistake as me. In my defense, I've been using a laptop my whole life and this is my first time owning a PC... It turns out that when I set up the display, I didn't set it to the fancy graphics card inside. So for months, I've been gaming on an Intel graphics card worse than my gaming laptop. I'm honestly impressed considering how many graphics-intensive games I play for my job and stuff. Thanks, The Sims 3! Anyway, the game is running fine now in winter and on community lots because it's actually using my proper graphics card. I don't quite understand why the crash log analyzer kept claiming it was just custom content, but I'm too happy to have figured it out to care!

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lumigoomy
10 months ago

I figured it out and will put it here in case someone else makes the same mistake as me. In my defense, I've been using a laptop my whole life and this is my first time owning a PC... It turns out that when I set up the display, I didn't set it to the fancy graphics card inside. So for months, I've been gaming on an Intel graphics card worse than my gaming laptop. I'm honestly impressed considering how many graphics-intensive games I play for my job and stuff. Thanks, The Sims 3! Anyway, the game is running fine now in winter and on community lots because it's actually using my proper graphics card. I don't quite understand why the crash log analyzer kept claiming it was just custom content, but I'm too happy to have figured it out to care!

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kostaspoly
9 months ago

please tell me the steps you followed beacuse i have the same problem and i want to solve it. Im playing from my laptop (windows 11) also. i have this problem over a year and i dont know how to fix it.

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