Sims 3 Does Not Recognize AMD Graphics Card
Hi everyone!
I recently got a new dell inspiron 17R laptop, with duel graphics, and installed all the sims games on it. I started the game and it played fine (I repeat the game will play on my computer) but I noticed the settings were all at their lowest despite having a good graphics card and according to the deviceconfig sims is using the integrated intel chip, and does not even recognize the AMD graphics.
I looked up the issue and it seemed like an easy fix.
- I configured the switcheable graphics so AMD should play all sims 3 applications but sims still uses intel
- I figured (and still do think) the problem is that sims 3 does not recognize the card and I tried following the tutorials for editing sgr files, and I thought I had it, I have made tuning mods before it seemed easy enough, and I have tried multiple ways of writing in the card but I cannot get it to work, I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I must be doing something
- I looked around for answers to no avail, asked on other forums, contacted ea help but they said it's not their job and tried to send me to someone who's job I know it isn't, and I am now increadobly frustrated.
So if someone could help me with making sims recognize my graphics card that would be great.
My Graphics Card is an:
AMD RADEON HD 8870M
device ID: 6821
vedor ID: 1002
The fact that those bumbers are memorized should tell you how long I have been trying to make this work, so any and all help is apreaceated, I am running out of options. Please help me fix this.
I found a solution and thought I should let you know in case others are still having issues
There is advice that might work for Nvidia users here or more specifically here
I tried to do the AMD equivilent, I am not sure how much that helped or not, I know AMD thought it was running the sims, sims thought it was using intel, the graphics looked like intel but the fps was realy low (like 2-8)
apparently windows 8.1 is known to cause issues with graphical performance, and since you can't downgrade from 8.1 to just 8 or 7 without purchacing a new licence I tried running sims in compatability mode.
running the game in windows 7 compatibility mode seems to have fixed it.
The game still thinks it's using intel...but it is using AMD and runs beautifuly so I consider it solved.
Things that did not work but might contribute to the above success:
- removing intel graphics from the 2 sgr files in question, sims still sees intel
- adding AMD to the sgr files, sims still does not recognize it (which is annoying but everything works now so I give up)
- telling swicheable graphics to use AMD for sims (all the ep's and sp's, the launchers and main ts3w.exe)
- giving sims it's own profile under 3D application settings
Thank you for your time, hope this solves some other peoples issues as well
