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Werusek-2000
3 years ago
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Pets... sometimes stretch when idle...?

So... pets... stretch? Mostly when idle, but just anytime. They stretch into these long, tall, stingy weird-like forms as if they're trying to morph into the skeleton of a sim...? I heard this is a b...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    3 years ago

    @Werusek-2000  Graphics glitches shouldn't happen because of overheating.  In theory, that might appear to happen:  A slightly overheating graphics card or chip, that's therefore throttling its workload to keep from getting even hotter, could be slow to render an object (or sim), or render it in a stuttery way, and thus cause what looks like a graphical glitch.  However, that's not really a glitch per se, just a slowdown.  And it wouldn't account for what you're seeing.

    A GPU that's overheating more than just a little bit, more than throttling could compensate for, would simply cause the game to crash.

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
3 years ago

@Werusek-2000  That's not the info under About This Mac, and you probably want to remove the serial number and the two lines below it.  But MacBook Air 10,1 means M1, which is the important point anyway.

You should be able to play on ultra settings, not just high, although water and high-detail lots should be turned down to lower the strain on the game engine.  (Besides, the high-detail lots setting doesn't totally work in the 64-bit Mac version of the game.  So that's worth trying, including enabling Edge Smoothing.  When you change any graphics settings, do so at the Main Menu and quit to desktop before loading a save.

Still, I don't know whether this will help because I don't know why it's happening in the first place.  As I said, I'm not seeing it at all in my current save, where pets have had plenty of opportunities to glitch.

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Werusek-2000
3 years ago

Ultra? That's not an option for me?

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    3 years ago

    @Werusek-2000  I meant maxing out the settings in each category that isn't water or high-detail lots.  "Ultra" is just shorthand for the highest settings across the board.

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    Werusek-2000
    3 years ago

    You sure that's safe for me to do?

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    3 years ago
    @Werusek-2000 wrote:

    You sure that's safe for me to do?

    Yes.  Just make sure your Mac can properly cool itself, which basically means playing on a hard flat surface or with the Mac elevated on a laptop tray or cooling pad.  (No playing with the laptop on top of a blanket.)  But it should be fine.

  • Werusek-2000's avatar
    Werusek-2000
    3 years ago

    I've heard people say this before, isn't the reason some glitches happen because of overheating?

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    3 years ago

    @Werusek-2000  Graphics glitches shouldn't happen because of overheating.  In theory, that might appear to happen:  A slightly overheating graphics card or chip, that's therefore throttling its workload to keep from getting even hotter, could be slow to render an object (or sim), or render it in a stuttery way, and thus cause what looks like a graphical glitch.  However, that's not really a glitch per se, just a slowdown.  And it wouldn't account for what you're seeing.

    A GPU that's overheating more than just a little bit, more than throttling could compensate for, would simply cause the game to crash.

  • Werusek-2000's avatar
    Werusek-2000
    3 years ago

    Thank you so much for your help.

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