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No, this machine doesn't have a dedicated graphic card because it's a mini desktop PC. Although, it is possible to add one of the larger "normal" desktop graphic cards to it as an outside source but for what I use it for I don't think that will ever become necessary. It does have 10GBs of graphic memory though.
This is a mini desktop which is very small, a full-size desktop graphic card is huge compared to this thing. I've included a link to the PC so you can check it out for yourself to get a better understanding of what I have. In terms of the graphic card, it works more like the Iris Xe I have on my other PC (which still plays the Sims 3 like a champ, btw).
Thank you so much for your help. Hopefully once everything is changed the Sims should run fine. If not, I'll post back to this thread to share whatever is happening just in case any other Simmer is looking to get a tiny desktop PC they'll at least know "if" and "what" pitfalls there are.
Thank you, again!
Mini PC:
https://store.minisforum.com/collections/amd-%C2%AE-ryzen-%C2%AE/products/hm90?variant=41053297442977
@mw1525 To add a video card to the computer you need it to have a POCIeX16 slot and I don't see one there in the specs. You have to get your computer to tell the game EXACTLY what the graphics chip is even though it is part of the cpu package. Once you get the game to "found 1" then you need to tell the game the graphics chip capabilities are. The game asks the computer what the video chip is. What the computer returns is what you need to use in the first .sgr file. This has to be in a format that exactly matches what the computer says it has. Once the game finds the chip you have to tell the game it capabilities are in the next .sgr file and that has to be in a format the game can understand. I use AMD cpus but none of them have an integrated video chip. If you look at the other entries you can see things like ? is like a wild card. You have all the data you need - you just have to format it correctly. hth
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