5 years ago
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...
@SunflowerSimmies Stutter can happen when fps is higher than the monitor's refresh rate; or it can happen because the graphics card's workload is high enough for it to struggle, whether that's typical or because of some temporary high-demand situation in-game; or because the game engine is preoccupied with some other issue (e.g. routing) and dragging down performance; or because some graphics cards seem to have a lot of stutter in-game without high workloads and for really no good reason. Point is, "stutter" is a symptom of a lot of problems, some of which are more serious than others and none of which can be diagnosed by the stutter alone.
It would be useful to lift the 60 Hz cap and try other interventions, even if they lead to stutter, just to see whether anything gets rid of the lines. Then you could try to find a combination of settings that leads to neither lines or stutter.
The monitor settings are very easy to switch back and forth: right-click on the desktop, select Display settings > Advanced display settings > Display adapter properties > list all modes, and choose a different one. Among the reasons I think it might be helpful is I've seen two people with monitors that can be overclocked to 165 Hz say they had flickering in Sims 4 until they switched the monitor to 144 Hz. I know flickering isn't your issue, but that does suggest that 165 Hz might not be as stable or smooth as the monitor specs would suggest.
On a completely different note, I saw a discussion yesterday on another site about a SweetFX profile offered by brntwaffles, who's made some very popular lighting mods for Sims 3. Links to third-party downloads aren't allowed on this site, but when I googled just now, the page I wanted was the second hit; it has screenshots to go with the description and instructions. The reason I mention it is because you're supposed to disable edge smoothing in-game and let SweetFX handle it instead.
Okay, I’ll try testing this all out tomorrow and get back to you about the results as soon as possible. The sweet fx thing sounds like a very good alternative which I am more than willing to try. I’ve tried reshades edge smoothing but it was no where near as smooth as I wanted it so I hope this one will be better, it also says it has been updated recently to give smoother edges so I’m excited to try this, thank you for the recommendation.