@roberta591 Thank you! I've attatched the DxDiag here.
I've managed to improve the graphics a bit since my post by messing around some more with the graphics rules file, but they're still not as high quality as they should be on max settings, especially in map view and when looking at things like trees from a distance (my laptop has a much worse graphics card than this PC, and TS3 looks way better quality on there, so I'm still sure there's an issue somewhere)
@es_lorax Please go into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3, open deviceconfig.log, copy the first 40 lines or so (stop when you get to Options), and paste them here. This section shows how Sims 3 is reading and ranking your hardware. You can delete your user and computer names, 20 lines down, if you want; the file doesn't contain any other personal information.
If you use GeForce Experience, please disable the option to optimize your graphics settings, at least for Sims 3. GFE could be the reason your Edge Smoothing setting keeps reseting.
Please also remove all your mods, including the UI mod you're using and any lighting mod you've installed, at least long enough to test. While these shouldn't affect graphics to the degree that you're seeing, it's important to know how the game looks in its vanilla state.
@puzzlezaddictthank you, I've attatched the device config below
I've taken out all my mods / UI recolour and I'm still having some graphical issues, I'll make sure GFE is off though, thank you for the suggestion!
=== Application info ===
Name: Sims3
Version:
Build: Release
=== Rating info ===
GPU: 5 GPU Memory: 4 CPU: 4 RAM: 4 CPU Speed: 3493 Threading: 3
Adjusted CPU: 4258 RAM: 16287 Adjusted RAM: 15775 Cores: 12
=== Machine info ===
OS version: Windows 8 6.2.9200
OS prod type: 0
OS major ver: 6
OS minor ver: 2
OS SP major ver: 0
OS SP minor ver: 0
OS is 64Bit: 1
CPU: AuthenticAMD
Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor
Family: 15
Model: 1
Cores: 12
HT: 0
x64: 0
Memory: 16287MB
Free memory: 9771MB
=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
Name (database): GeForce RTX 3050 [Found: 1, Matched: 1]
Vendor: NVIDIA
Chipset: Vendor: 10de, Device: 2507, Board: 630119da, Chipset: 00a1
Driver: nvldumd.dll, Version: 31.0.15.2849, GUID: D7B71E3E-6647-11CF-4B71-0E430EC2D235
Driver version: 2849
Monitor: \\.\DISPLAY1
Texture memory: 8192MB
Vertex program: 3.0
Pixel program: 3.0
Hardware TnL: 1
@es_lorax Your GPU is not only recognized but rated correctly, as you probably know already, so that's not the issue. But maybe some other edit to the files is causing the problem. I do think it's worth reverting to the original .sgr files. If this helps, please post the edits you made, or the guide you followed, so I can take a look.
While you're testing, you only need to make sure GFE is not "optimizing" your graphics settings. It's fine to let the app run, or at least it should be; I don't have any issue with it and haven't seen any reports of its presence being a problem in several years.
