No shadows on Parallels Desktop on M1 Pro mac
Hiii hope someone can help me out. I own a Macbook Pro M1 pro and I run Parallels Desktop 17 with Windows 11. The game runs amazing and smooth but they have no shadow (see screenshot). It runs better...
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@puzzlezaddictso i looked up this guide https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/300915/a-help-for-pixelated-shadows-ati-cards/p2 and i edit the graphicsrules files. Now it says it found 0 but matched 1 which is confusing to me. How can you find nothing but actually found a match. However, the shadows are still missing.
What i did:
I found out that the card vendor has no name, the GPU name is Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM).
So I added this to my graphicsrules file:
elseif (match("${cardVendor}", "")) < no vendor name so blank
if (match("${cardName}", "*Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)*")) < GPU name
seti cardLevel $cardLevelUber
seti isCardMatched true
else
seti cardLevel $cardLevelUber
seti isCardMatched false
I also edit my graphicscards file. It actually had a vendor "Parallels" at the bottom, but not my GPU name. I did this:
vendor "Parallels" 0x5250
card 0x3030 "Parallels Display Adapter" < this was already there
card 353030 "Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)" < this was not so added my GPU name
end
Not sure if its going to the right direction?
Edit:
Omg okay i got shadows but they looks very pixelated. I have no idea. I added this and the shadows came:
setProp $ConfigGroup RenderShadowMode 2
setProp $ConfigGroup ShadowMapAllowNullColor 1
See screenshots for my GraphicsRule file and the shadows. Also note that antilaliasing looks horrible, even though it's on highest.
@costalovesit The reason your card is Matched but not Found is that it's still not listed in graphicscards.sgr in a way that the game can read it. The edit you made to graphicsrules.sgr tells the game to match any card with "Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)" in the name, whether it's listed in graphicscards.sgr or not.
For the graphicscards.sgr entry, try this:
vendor "Parallels" 0x344c5250
The shadows are alwasy going to be very pixelated. The effect is a little worse in macOS than in Windows, but it's mostly a limitation of Sims 3 itself. Here are a couple screenshots from my Intel Mac, for comparison:
A fix would probably require either a reworking of textures within the game or some kind of (very large) texture override mod, which I don't believe exists at this time.
Thanks for providing the edits that restored the shadows. I've never been able to test myself because I don't have one of the newer affected AMD GPUs, or Parallels for that matter.
I downloaded lazy duchess's shadow extender and a 8k shadows mod, I think it helped. At least my game looks good now! Some screenshots for example. Thanks for your help!
