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Yhrite's avatar
Yhrite
5 years ago

Re: Pink lines across edges of screen and resolution problems on 2020 M1 Macbook Air

Thanks a lot for the reply and also the guidance! It's difficult to capture the problem with the blur as it seems to most visibly affect text. I added in the vsync option to the game options but it doesn't seem to have had any affect as frame rate tends to float well above my Mac's refresh rate of 60hz while in-game. The game is running in fullscreen.

You'll see in the images below the pink line around the character portrait. I've also realised I made a mistake in my original post and the 'pink lines around the entire edge of the screen' thing only affects the opening intro videos. Once past the menu and in-game they disappear. Though there is also a pink line around the edge of the save-game family screenshot on the main menu (not shown here)

 I've attached the device config. I'm using the graphics options the game suggested for me.

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @Yhrite  Just because I'm curious, could you take a couple of screenshots I can use for comparison in my game?  Please take one each in fullscreen, at the native resolution of your screen, using the C key; and in windowed mode, at a lower resolution (let me know which one), with cmd-shift-4.  These are mine: the first is of the Hart kitchen, and the second of Victoria Andrews's right arm, both in Sunset Valley.  I'd like to compare mine to yours.  (The second is actually a composite I made for comparing the effects with different settings and in different OSs, but one close-up is enough.)

    These are from around 9-10 am, without Seasons enabled, so a sunny day would be best.  You can change the season and weather by bringing up the cheats console (cmd-shift-C) and entering testingcheatsenabled true , then shift-clicking on the ground.

    I'm curious how graphics rendering might be different with Rosetta on an ARM Mac.

    And yes, they're supposed to look that bad; that was the point.

  • Yhrite's avatar
    Yhrite
    5 years ago

    First two images were in fullscreen 2560x1600, settings same as seen in previous post. Third image is at 1440x900 resolution, windowed. Unfortunately, I can not get the window capture shortcut to work with windowed TS3 as it just stops the mouse from moving.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    5 years ago

    @Yhrite  Thanks for the screenshots.  Other than the sort of blurry text, yours look pretty normal to me, the same as I see in both macOS and Windows.  I was hoping that the blurriness was the side effect of some enhanced graphics rendering process (no particular reason, I just wondered), but it looks like the game is rendered pretty much the same.

    As for the blurriness and pink lines, I've passed along the info.  I don't know whether there will ever be a fix, but I'll post back, or someone else will, if there's anything to try.

  • Clutzmut's avatar
    Clutzmut
    4 years ago

    Hey! I'm also having this same issue. I'm on the M1 13in MBP. 

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    4 years ago

    @Clutzmut  Sorry, as far as I know there's no fix for this issue.  Maybe it'll be fixed by by something on Apple's end, and maybe not, but I doubt EA will do anything, especially considering M1 chips and the software that they use to emulate x86 applications are not officially supported.

  • Justayjah20's avatar
    Justayjah20
    4 years ago

    This is my same issue I even started calling apple like hey I paid a lot for the computer. It seems like it’s a sims issue 

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    4 years ago

    @Justayjah20  This is a known issue with M1 Macs.  The M1 chip is translating Sims 3 using Rosetta, so there will naturally be a few anomalies here and there.  EA is not going to rewrite the game for ARM chips, so if Apple doesn't fix this (very minor, in the grand scheme of things) issue, I doubt there will ever be a way to address it.

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