Geforce 760 GTX Not Recognized

Since it's a Nvidia card, try starting the GForce experience and set the game up to be optimzed there. Then try starting it through the experince to see if that works.

Is it alright if the optomized settings are higher then what I currently have?

With the card you have, you should get maxed settings. Since the game didn't recognize your card, it just put something so yes, it's totally fine if it's maxed out.

Check if you can play if from there now.

Crin I responded to your PM we had a power outage for a few hours.

OP, let us know how your new card is running on high. I just got a new computer with the GTX 770. Its in the mail can't wait!

I optomized the settings and saw no improvements, it runs the same as before. The game is very smooth when the camera is still but as soon as you pan around it gets very choppy.

I just got my computer have not set it up yet. Will post back and let you know what happens with the 770 as soon as I get a moment to get this computer updated and running. Probably won't be until tomorrow

Do you still get the error message that the card is not recognized ?

Are your drivers up to date ?

I dont get the error anymore it stopped after the first time I got it. All my drivers are up to date. 

Crin, I have had this more than once installing on my old laptop. EA only gives you one warning notice that the card is not recognized. If you go in and play without the game accepting the card, no more warnings will appear even if the game is not accepting the card.

I so far updated widows 8. Have not added the game yet

To OP, somone else posted about their video card getting destroyed by this game so I posted below to them and will post to you

The sims 3 does not have a frames per second limiter. So you have to go into your Nvidia control panel and enable Vsync . It will lock the frame rate at 60 and stop the card from overheating. Otherwise the game will push the card continually to its max frame rate and overheat it.