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6 years ago

Sims 3 won't recongize my gtx 1660 ti (I have tried everything)

Basically what I have tried to get it to recognize my graphics card and it refuses too. I have watched guides, used the Slims 3 Gpu tool from the Nexus and none of it has not worked.

I have gotten files from this place, for news sgr ones for it. Did not work, and I also re downloaded my game. Everything is up to date too.

https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=31450.0

(Had to change the file type so it can get uploaded here)

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  • @Furiosa2727  The edited graphicscards.sgr is fine, as your deviceconfig reports that the card is "found."  It's the "matched" part that's not working, and that's from graphicsrules.sgr.  Here's the issue:

    or match("${cardName}", "*GT 16??*")

    Make it GTX instead of GT.  If that alone doesn't help, you can change 16?? to 1660 ti as well, although it shouldn't be necessary.

    While you're at it, you may want to tell the game that your card has an appropriate amount of VRAM, or texture memory as TS3 calls it.  Change this, eight to ten lines down:

    if ($textureMemory == 0)
      seti textureMemory       32
      setb textureMemorySizeOK false
    

    to this:

    if ($textureMemory == 0)
      seti textureMemory       1024
      # setb textureMemorySizeOK false
    

    So you're changing the 32 to a 1024 and putting a # and a space in front of setb.  Even though your card has 6 GB of VRAM, the game can only use 800 MB.  The value is also in the deviceconfig, a few lines below the found and matched values.

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