Screen dark or hazy
This is not all the time, but sometimes when I play my game, my game is just super dark even with brightness all the way up. I cant see my sims or the house.
I was also looking at old builds and noticed this house was very hazy. Is it because the house is so white?
I have my settings on medium except sims detail and I have local lot detail on the lowest to prevent lagging.
Spycoo16 You can switch between fullscreen and windowed modes by clicking a box on the graphics settings page. The game does get a bit distorted when running in windowed mode at the native resolution of your screen—whole lines of pixels get stripped out to shrink down the game window a bit. So you might not want to play this way. But it's a useful test.
If windowed mode works well, but you want to play at the highest resolution possible, or you just want the fullscreen effect, Windowed Borderless Gaming is a free tool that works well with Sims 3.
Separately, your dxdiag shows the graphics driver has been crashing a lot. So please do a clean uninstall of the driver; here's how:
Use the newest driver Lenovo provides for your laptop:
If this driver doesn't work out, you can try the newest one Intel provides instead. It's newer but also more generic, whereas the one from Lenovo may be tuned to work better with your particular laptop model. But since the Lenovo driver is more than a year old, it's not clear which one would be best overall.
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