Screen dark or hazy

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:

https://crinrict.com/blog/2019/02/clean-re-install-of-graphics-drivers-with-display-driver-uninstaller-ddu.html

Use the newest driver Lenovo provides for your laptop:

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/yoga-series/yoga-9-14irp8/83b1/downloads/driver-list/component?name=Display%20and%20Video%20Graphics&id=635380F4-448F-4129-AA77-265289D96F6F

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.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/232155/intel-core-i71360p-processor-18m-cache-up-to-5-00-ghz/downloads.html

Hello

• fullscreen and I dont know how to switch the game to windows
• I read that it could be because of exiting the game then re-entering, so I stopped doing that and still get it. I also don't play with background browsers open anymore. 
• My laptop is usually low battery, so I do have it plugged in.

Spycoo16​  Are you playing in fullscreen or windowed mode when this happens, and does switching make the game look right again?  Is this after you've restarted your computer, or have you been letting it run for a while, and maybe had other applications running in the background?  If you have a laptop, is it plugged in or running on battery?

For reference, please also provide a dxdiag.  Click Windows key-R, enter dxdiag in the run box, wait for the scan to finish, click "Save all information," and save the file to your desktop.  From there, you can attach it to a reply using the paper clip (Attachment) icon included with the other formatting buttons.

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