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ciarasimsx
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1 year ago
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Getting sims 3 to recognise graphics card

Hey,

I've watched a couple tutorials. I have edited my graphicscards.srg file and i'm pretty sure I have done it correctly as my DeviceConfig.log file states [Found: 1, Matched: 0].

The part I am stuck on is editing the graphics rules file to get it to match.

Could somebody please advise me on how to solve this?

My GPU is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU.

Thanks guys 🙂

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    1 year ago

    @ciarasimsx  Search GraphicsRules for 8800 , change that to 3050 without deleting anything else (not even the asterisks), load the game, quit, and see whether the device is now Matched.

    Be sure to edit the texture memory value too.  That's this section:

    if ($textureMemory == 0)
    seti textureMemory 32
    setb textureMemorySizeOK false

    change the 32 to 1024, and add a # and a space in front of setb.  Your card has more VRAM than that, but TS3 can only use 800 MB anyway.  The lines should look like this:

    if ($textureMemory == 0)
    seti textureMemory 1024
    # setb textureMemorySizeOK false

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    1 year ago

    @ciarasimsx  Search GraphicsRules for 8800 , change that to 3050 without deleting anything else (not even the asterisks), load the game, quit, and see whether the device is now Matched.

    Be sure to edit the texture memory value too.  That's this section:

    if ($textureMemory == 0)
    seti textureMemory 32
    setb textureMemorySizeOK false

    change the 32 to 1024, and add a # and a space in front of setb.  Your card has more VRAM than that, but TS3 can only use 800 MB anyway.  The lines should look like this:

    if ($textureMemory == 0)
    seti textureMemory 1024
    # setb textureMemorySizeOK false

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