Re: The Sims 3 M1 Mac graphics settings

@thisisreallyryan  A few things to note here:

• Super Water seems to be an issue, in that its effects aren't present, for everyone using the 64-bit Mac version.
• Map View is always low-resolution in any version of the game.
• Color banding and other artifacts of compressed textures are also present in any version except where someone has an old OS and graphics driver that support dithering.  This is due to the texture files and would require remastering to fix.
• Shadows are similarly pixelated on all or most versions, although it's always been worse in macOS than in Windows.  It's worse on AMD graphics cards than on Nvidia as well, so it's not only about the OS.

For the rest, please delete options.ini, load the game to create a new one, change the graphics settings at the Main Menu, quit, reload, and see how things look.  Please change high-detail lots to no more than 4 and enable edge smoothing and advanced rendering.  Let me know which issues are still present and not explained by the above, for example if only one lot is high-detail at a time.  For that, please also scroll around to see whether your active lot stops being rendered in high-res when another one starts.

For what it's worth, your screenshots look pretty normal for Sims 3 other than the high-detail lots issue.  But it's entirely possible I'm missing some details.