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 The game is using your Nvidia card, and rating it correctly (despite the fact that it's unrecognized), so that's not the issue. I understand that the screen filckers in fullscreen mode, but please try it and see whether you specifically get the same white lines or not. Even if fullscreen mode isn't a solution, it's still useful information.
Please also try playing in windowed mode at a resolution smaller than your screen, as in, something smaller along both dimensions than 1920x1080. Again, even if this isn't ideal, it's worth checking to see whether the lines are still there.
The reason I'm asking about fullscreen mode is that the flickering you've described can often be fixed by enabling vertical sync. While the v-sync option in the Nvidia Control Panel doesn't work anymore on laptops with dual cards, at least as far as I can tell, there is a tool that works for games that use DirectX 9, like Sims 3 does. Since it's a third-party download, I can't link it here, but if you're interested, let me know. Another player tested it a few weeks ago and reported that it worked well with Sims 3.
I’ve gave the full screen mode a try but it didn’t work. I’m really interested in the tool you mentioned! I would love to give that try please
@Bts152 The outside tool isn't necessarily going to fix the white lines; the point was that if the white lines were gone in fullscreen mode, the tool might help with the flickering. Still, if you want to try, there's no harm in doing so. The tool is called D3DOverrider and is built on RivaTuner Statistics Server, which is reliable and widely used.
Did windowed mode on a reduced resolution help? I'm just wondering whether that makes a difference, even if you don't want to play that way permanently.
I’m fine with using windowed mode- it’s just that I need to get rid of those white lines that shows up on basically everything like skin, clothes and furniture
@Bts152 I understand the issue you're having and that you want to get rid of it. My questions are these:
- If you play in fullscreen mode, do you see the white lines? (I know there are other issues in fullscreen; I'm specifically asking about the lines.)
- If you play in fullscreen and use the tool I mentioned, does the screen flickering go away?
- If you play in windowed mode on a reduced resolution, do you see the white lines?
Please let me know the answer to each of these three questions, and we can go from there.
Yes there’s still white lines on full screen mode
the screen still flickers when I used the tool you mentioned
I still see the white lines on windowed mode
In all this, did you upgrade your driver via GeForce Experience?
Yes i have and it still not helped with my problem
@Bts152 Could you post a few screenshots of what you see? Hit Windows key-shift-S, drag your cursor over the section of screen you want to capture, and then open Paint and crtl-V to paste the image. (This only works in windowed mode.) Please also let me know whether the screenshots look like what you see or not; if not, you can take a picture with your cell phone camera and attach it too.
