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Re: Geforce 760 GTX Not Recognized

With the card you have, you should get maxed settings. Since the game didn't recognize your card, it just put something so yes, it's totally fine if it's maxed out.

Check if you can play if from there now.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Crin I responded to your PM we had a power outage for a few hours.

    OP, let us know how your new card is running on high. I just got a new computer with the GTX 770. Its in the mail can't wait!

  • I optomized the settings and saw no improvements, it runs the same as before. The game is very smooth when the camera is still but as soon as you pan around it gets very choppy.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I just got my computer have not set it up yet. Will post back and let you know what happens with the 770 as soon as I get a moment to get this computer updated and running. Probably won't be until tomorrow

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    12 years ago

    Do you still get the error message that the card is not recognized ?

    Are your drivers up to date ?

  • I dont get the error anymore it stopped after the first time I got it. All my drivers are up to date. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Crin, I have had this more than once installing on my old laptop. EA only gives you one warning notice that the card is not recognized. If you go in and play without the game accepting the card, no more warnings will appear even if the game is not accepting the card.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I so far updated widows 8. Have not added the game yet

    To OP, somone else posted about their video card getting destroyed by this game so I posted below to them and will post to you

    The sims 3 does not have a frames per second limiter. So you have to go into your Nvidia control panel and enable Vsync . It will lock the frame rate at 60 and stop the card from overheating. Otherwise the game will push the card continually to its max frame rate and overheat it.

  • Don't worry, I have adaptive Vsync on to prevent that. I saw someone else with the same issue as I do. He had a Geforce 780 and he was getting the same choppiness when moving the game camera that I do. I wish I cpuld fix this it really takes the fun out of the game.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Cool. Ill let you know what happens tomorrow once I get the game in. I had 86 updates to do on windows 8 which took 3 hours so I need an install break . Im going to actually have microsoft install the game and shut down the computer when I do it so I have no interfearence. This way I will be able to tell if the new patch has caused some problems to the launcher. I had issues with the launcher on my old computer with the 1.67 patch. It froze up some of the options and they were not working.

    There is a youtube video on the sims with my card 770. Google it. They seem to be running the game smoothly in the video although they did state this

    he Sims 3 on the Asus GTX 770 DirectCU II OC Edition

    Ultra Settings at 1920 x 1080p

    FPS
    Min: 42
    Max:734
    Avg: 247

    System Specification
    CPU: Intel i7 3770k up to 3.9Ghz
    GPU: Asus GTX 770 DirectCU II OC 2GB
    RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance (4x4) at 1600Mhz
    HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200rpm

    Software Used
    Nvidia Driver: Nvidia 320.18 WHQL
    Operating System: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
    Video Capture: Fraps 3.5.9
    Video Production: Sony Vegas Pro 12.0

    Verdict
    Very Playable. Game drops to 40 FPS due to poor programming by EA. Game is playable, but frequently jumps and stutters.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    what EP and Town are you playing? Maybe it's the ep your playing? Maybe the new patch.? The video with my card is dated last year before the new patch update. Just thougts at the moment.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Hmm. I wonder if it is Island Paradise and just having it installed even if you don't play it. That EP is messed up they need to fix it.  could it be the new patch. I dont have university but I have all others. I was playing Roaring Heights from the store. I will run tests on just the base game and will test each ep I add. This will take a while. I post what I find with each ep.

    This person with the 780, did they post what EP's they have installed and what town they are playing? What OS, windows 8, 8.1

    What OS are you on?

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