Anonymous
13 years agoNot applicable
Sims look weird
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My computer has switchable graphics, it can switch between the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 for power saving and the AMD Radeon HD 6470M for high performance.
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My computer has switchable graphics, it can switch between the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 for power saving and the AMD Radeon HD 6470M for high performance.
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Is it just the Sims in CAS or do you have other issues ?
What driver number do you have ? There was an issue with the 12.4
Here's a hotfix for that driver: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst124ahotfix.aspx
My driver version is 12.4, but the hotfix page requests a username and password.
Go here: http://support.amd.com/de/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx
and put 12.4 hotfix in the search field. I found a german page so I think it's a country issue. You might need to go to the page of your country.
That didn't fix it.
Assuming that the hotfix didn't help, try this:
Open the ATI Catalyst Control Center (oder download it) in advanced mode and click on Return to Factory Default.
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It might also be an issue with the graphic card itself.
As I asked before, are you just seeing this in CAS ? Do you have issue with any other games ?
My computer has switchable graphics
AMD Radeon HD 6630M
***The Sims 3 for high performance
See here:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/Sims-look-weird/m-p/3060/message-uid/3060#U3060
Haven't found a solution to it yet but maybe you can add to that thread and see what you guys have in common.
The hotfix didn't help. Everyone looks normal from a distance. I don't have any issue with other games.
Did you try resetting the graphic card to factory default described in my last post ?
There's someone else with the exact same issue. They have a similar card.
EDIT:
Been looking around the net and there a lots of people with this issue. I do think it driver related so you might wanna try switching back to an older graphic card driver.
Other possibilites:
Both you and the user on the other link has a ATI card on a laptop, running with ATI's "Dynamic Switchable Graphics" software, so my guess is that that might be the problem, as that software is not as mature as the Optimus software that nvidia uses.
ATI are also known to produce buggy drivers, and it might be worth a try to downgrade to a earlier version of the current driver, say 12.2, or 12.1. It might give a slight loss of performance, but it might remove the face problem.
Another possible thing would be to check out if you simply disable the switch from one card to another, and see if the problem persists. If it does not, that means that the ATI drivers are to blame.