I am having odd graphical issues now that I've actually tried to begin playing the game. The issues include: inverted camera/view behaving erratically. For example, I will be holding the scroll wheel on the mouse and be panning in one direction, and it will automatically start panning in the opposite direction. I have tested different mice and the issue remains. Next, I am seeing occurrences where the entire viewing area of the screen (aside from the console menus) are flashing/pulsing red, and it will not go away unless I scroll completely in to an unplayable degree. Also, when that is not happening, I am seeing elements in the game showing as red (see screenshots of this). Finally, I am unable to edit terrain colors/paints. I can use the painter to change the terrain for only the amount of space within the circle, but as soon as I begin moving the painter, the terrain reverts back to how it was (I tried to replicate this behavior as shown in the screenshots). Any help would be appreciated, as the game, while marginally playable, is really not enjoyable with these issues. I have tried clearing cache, adjusting graphical settings, making sure that macOS graphic switching is disabled so it will entirely use the dedicated graphics, and lastly I have tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling the game & repairing files via Origin. This is fresh install and I did not carry over any previous saves.
Device Info: macOS Catalina version 10.15.7, 16-inch2019, 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 16 GB DDR4 Memory, AMD Radeon Pro 5500 M 4GB Graphics.
Deviceconfig.log:
== Application info ===
Name: Sims3
Version:
Build: Release
=== Rating info ===
GPU: 5 GPU Memory: 5 CPU: 4 RAM: 5 CPU Speed: 2300 Threading: 3
Adjusted CPU: 3910 RAM: 16384 Adjusted RAM: 15872 Cores: 8
Card Found in DB: 1
=== Machine info ===
OS version: Mac OS X Version 10.15.7 (Build 19H2)
OS prod type: 0
OS major ver: 10
OS minor ver: 15
OS SP major ver: 0
OS SP minor ver: 0
OS is 64Bit: 1
CPU: MacBookPro16,1
Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
Family: 8
Model: 7
Cores: 8
HT: 1
x64: 1
Memory: 16384MB
Free memory: 3809MB
=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): AMD Radeon Pro 5500M
Name (database): AMD Radeon Pro 5500M [Found: 1, Matched: 1]
Vendor: ATI
Chipset: Vendor: 1002, Device: 7340, Board: 0000020f, Chipset: 0040
Driver: macOS Metal driver, Version: 0.0.0.0
Driver version: 0
Monitor: 00000000
Texture memory: 4080MB
Vertex program: 3.0
Pixel program: 3.0
Hardware TnL: 0
=== Options ===
AnimationSmoothing 1
LightingQuality 2
GeneralReflections 1
TextureQuality 2
VisualEffects 2
TerrainQuality 3
EdgeSmoothing 2
ObjectHiding 1
AspectRatio 0
ForceSquarePixels 1
SimQuality 2
TreeQuality 3
DrawDistance 2
MaxActiveLots 2
NumMaxActiveLotOptions 6
AdvancedRendering 0
AudioQuality 1
Audi🤭utputMode 1
VoiceLevel 255
SoundFXLevel 255
MusicLevel 255
AmbientLevel 255
FocusMute 1
VoiceMute 0
SoundFXMute 0
MusicMute 1
AmbientMute 0
EdgeScrolling 1
@ew2013 A couple of these issues have already been reported. It would help if you could click Me Too and post in these threads:
Red flashing:
Terrain paint:
Please create one new thread each for the mouse control issues and for the red houses in your screenshots (I'm not sure whether that's related to the red flashing or not). And please include the first 40 lines of deviceconfig there, as you did here; you can stop where the "Options" section starts.
