Sims 3 white lines
I’ve been playing sims 3 on my new laptop! It’s nvidia GeForce gtx 1650 but in the game, my furniture has white lines that flicker and those lines can be seen on clothes as well. I don’t know what to...
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@Bts152 Have you taken steps to limit your in-game framerates? If fps is too high, it can cause the kinds of lines you're seeing, as well as a number of other inconvenient or even harmful effects. Aside from the game itself, it's better for the long-term health of your graphics card and the laptop overall if you cap framerates while playing.
To see your in-game fps, bring up the cheats console (ctrl-shift-C) and enter "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen, and it should never go above the refresh rate of your screen, which is probably 60 Hz but may be higher. If framerates are consistently high or fluctuate wildly, they need to be manually limited.
Depending on how new your graphics driver is, you can probably set a framerate limit within the built-in Nvidia Control Panel. Right-click on the desktop, select the CP, then Manage 3D Settings, and you'll see this:
Turn on Max Frame Rate and set it to 60, click Okay, then Apply, and test in-game.
I’ve done what you said and the lines are still there- and I’ve put the FPS on and it keeps saying 29 then 30 then 29 then 30
@Bts152 It's weird that fps would be capped at 30, instead of something higher. Do you have another program that might be interfering? And are you playing on battery? If so, please plug in the laptop and test again. Games require a lot of power and should never be run while the laptop is drawing from battery: it hurts performance and will still drain the battery very quickly.
If the above doesn't help, please try switching between fullscreen and windowed modes, and let me know whether things look better. If not, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
my game is already on windowed mode and my laptop is always charging when i play the sims 3. I don't there's any other program interfering with the game but thank you for your help!
