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.
Hello!
I'm amazed you got something to work!
I'm having the same issue but was having difficulty working it out and was wondering if you wouldn't mind helping me out if you don't mind?!
Thank you so much in advance!
@EnricoFrancis Please go into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3, open deviceconfig.log, copy the first 40 or so lines (stop when you get to Options), and paste them here. You can delete your user and computer names, about 20 lines down; the file doesn't contain any other personal information.
Thank you so much for your response, here's the info:
=== Application info ===Name: Sims3Version:Build: Release=== Rating info ===GPU: 5 GPU Memory: 4 CPU: 3 RAM: 4 CPU Speed: 2400 Threading: 3Adjusted CPU: 2800 RAM: 16361 Adjusted RAM: 15849 Cores: 8=== Machine info ===OS version: Windows 8 6.2.9200OS prod type: 0OS major ver: 6OS minor ver: 2OS SP major ver: 0OS SP minor ver: 0OS is 64Bit: 1CPU: GenuineIntelBrand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9980HK CPU @ 2.40GHzFamily: 6Model: 14Cores: 8HT: 0x64: 0Memory: 16361MBFree memory: 13504MBUser:Computer:=== Graphics device info ===Number: 0Name (driver): Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)Name (database): Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM) [Found: 0, Matched: 0]Vendor:Chipset: Vendor: 1ab8, Device: 4005, Board: 04001ab8, Chipset: 0000Driver: prl_umdd.dll, Version: 20.18.1830.53606, GUID: D7B71458-0345-11CF-6EA8-2623BDC2D935Driver version: 53606Monitor: \\.\DISPLAY1Texture memory: 1024MBVertex program: 3.0Pixel program: 3.0Hardware TnL: 1Hi! I hope I can help you out with the shadows. As mentioned in my previous post, you have to edit the graphicscards file. At the bottom there is a "Parallels" card but not tje (WDDM) one. You have to add the GPU name so it looks like this:
vendor "Parallels" 0x5250 card 0x3030 "Parallels Display Adapter" card 353030 "Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)"
Also edit the graphicsrule file and add the shadow lines to your card. Check the screenshot attached to see where to place it.
setProp $ConfigGroup RenderShadowMode 2 setProp $ConfigGroup ShadowMapAllowNullColor 1
Let me know if this is clear or not, its been a little while since I did this and I don't have parallels anymore on my Mac so I can't check it again.
