Sims 3 Launcher White With Red X
Please, for the love of plumbobs, can anyone help me? Will try almost anything at this point! I have been trying to fix this for days with no results and still have no idea what is causing it. I’m...
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Thank you for catching that. Completed the uninstall and reinstall of the driver. The gpu is factory overclocked, but nothing more. Haven't changed any display stuff since the driver reinstalled. Here is a new DxDiag. No change on the Sims 3 Launcher.
@SimsSeer Sorry for the late reply; I wanted to ask someone else for a second opinion on this. We're both wondering how you originally set your monitor to run at a 2840x2160 resolution (as shown in your first dxdiag) when it doesn't support anything higher than 1680x1050. How did you do that, and did it appear to work? It's also possible the monitor itself is damaged or otherwise not working properly, so do you have a different monitor you can test with, at least temporarily? Even a TV would work and probably already has an HDMI cable.
😅 Ive been asked this before by a couple friends. I currently have a pretty strange monitor setup due to timing.
Long story short, I went several years without a gaming PC, and only had my work laptop. After saving up, I built this machine in February. However, the monitor I want was not out at the time of building, so I haven’t bought one yet. I am planning to get a new one later this month.
The current monitor I use is a Dell E228WFPc from 2007 (with a HDMI to DVI-D cable) that was a spare from my grandfather’s office set-up. The intention was to make this a headless PC and use a remote desktop software to view it from my other computer. However, I kept the 2007 monitor hooked up for troubleshooting such as this. The computer recognizes 1680x1050 as the max when it is only the Dell hooked up.
The program I use is Moonlight on my work laptop. I stream mstsc.exe through GeForce Gamestream on the gaming pc and it gives me full desktop control. When I bought the laptop 4 years ago, I shelled out to get a 4k OLED on it. In the settings on Moonlight, I can set the resolution to 3840x2160, then go into the windows settings on the gaming pc and do the same.
For some reason, after Moonlight has been used, it adds the streaming resolution (3840x2160, sometimes 2840x2160 depending on the game) as a viable one for the display and I can keep it that way even when not actively using Moonlight. It makes the 2007 Dell Monitor look a little blurry lol, but it works flawlessly on my laptop screen. That is how I have been using it for the past few months to play Ark: Survival Evolved off of the new gaming machine through my laptop 😂
I did test the Sims 3 launcher in several resolutions and disconnected Moonlight to see if that was causing it. Prior to this issue, I was using Sims 3 in 3840x2160 with the TinyUiFix with no issues.
If I get you right, you are using Moonlight to stream your AURORA PC's entire Desktop to your Laptop, right?
You have a 4k OLED Screen on your Laptop meaning it has a nativ resolution of 3840x2160.
So you need to set the resolution of your AURORA PC to 3840x2160 to match because the Moonlight documentation says that if you stream the full desktop the resolution on the host PC is not adjusted.
If you are not using mstsc.exe (So, not streaming the full Desktop.) but only stream the game itself, is the error still there?Correct on all counts. When I stream just the game or just the launcher, without mstsc.exe, the problem is still there. I also have used the 2007 Dell monitor at the native resolution 1680x1050 without Moonlight Streaming and still have the same issue.
I have finished backing up the entire Aurora PC and might just wipe everything to start over from scratch, reinstalling windows and slowly adding things back to see whether or not the error returns and if so, why.
My work laptop doesn’t have the hardware capabilities to run games (integrated graphics card) but when I installed a clean version of Sims 3 the launcher worked just fine. Something in my gaming pc is causing the issue.
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