Map View in Poor Quality - Lenovo Legion 5
I might simply be very nitpicky here, but I recently switched to a Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop with and Nvidia RTX 3050 graphics card, only to find that the roads while in map view are in extremely...
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@puzzlezaddict I downloaded GeForce Experience and also switched settings in Windows to always run in high performance mode. No change to map view with either. I still need to try checking what's going on with task manager.
@roberta591 I noticed its pulling the wrong OS too in the games Device Config Log. I can confirm that Windows 11 is up to date on my Legion 05. Any advice as to how I could get the game to read Windows 11? I never had 8 installed as this computer came with 11 installed on it. Graphics are in high quality and game runs great aside from the road detail in map view. I do have an FPS cap at 60 FPS for the game from NVIDIA Control Panel. Anytime I play over 60 FPS the laptop makes quite a bit of noise.
@iyoung91 Sims 3 was out of development by the beginning of 2014, so it doesn't recognize anything past Windows 8. This is not indicative of a problem and has no practical effect.
For the roads issue, try playing in a clean boot:
When you reboot, go through the Task Manager's background processes list shutting down anything that doesn't absolutely need to be running, so basically anything that isn't from Microsoft, Nvidia, or AMD. (Examples of inessential software would be MSI Afterburner and anything from Razer.) If you accidentally kill the wrong process and it doesn't restart on its own, just reboot your computer.
And if you do see a process restarting on its own after you've ended it, note what it is so you can circle back later—the clean boot might do the trick, but if not, anything that insists on restarting itself may need to be uninstalled, at least temporarily.
@puzzlezaddict , I'll try this. Have you heard of 4GB patches? Is that something you would also recommend trying?
@iyoung91 The 4 GB patches floating around are for 32-bit apps that are programmed to only use 2 GB RAM: the patch makes them large-address aware, meaning they have access to the full 4 GB of memory addresses that are possible in 32-bit. Sims 3 is already large-address aware and has been since 2010. So applying the patch wouldn't do anything at best, and at worst, it might break your install in some way.
@puzzlezaddict Sorry for such a lapse in response. I just got the Seasons expansion pack, and now all my world maps are in pristine quality, the roads are in high definition. As long as I play with that expansion pack enabled, it solved the issue. What a weird issue, but that fixed it!
