Tech Responders - Break Room

exotickitten wrote:

blunote00 wrote:
Strange. :shock: My new laptop automatically used the nVidia graphics for the game.

Mine didn't. In the deviceconfig it still lists the intel card as the default for the game, even after using the Geforce Experience. But I will say I just tested the base game with HELS in the GE and it runs better and prettier and faster than it did the first day I tried to play sims on it. I just have to open the GE and then click run on the sims inside of it. I'm okay with that, as long as the game runs without lag and decent graphics and no crashing, I'm happy. :wink: I just have to get all my content installed and then play for an extended period of time to be sure that my issues are finished.

Setting the game to use the Nvidia card can be done in the Nvidia Control Panel-- there's no need to download another program. Not sure why they told you that. Here are instructions:


Open up the Nvidia Control Panel and click on Manage 3D settings. Then click on the Program Settings tab if its not already selected. Under step 1, you'll need to select TS3W.exe. You'll have to use the Add button to get it as it usually doesn't show up in the dropdown list on its own (the launcher does but not the game executable itself.) If your games are downloaded from Origin, the executable will be located in C:\Program Files x86\Origin Games\The Sims 3\Game\Bin. If they're disc copies the path will be C:\Program Files x86\Electronic Arts\etc. Click on TS3W.exe and click open. In step 2, select High-Performance Nvidia Processor. Under step 3, scroll down to Vertical Sync and select on-- this will limit the framerate and then you won't need to use a 3rd party program. I also turn Triple Buffering on and in Power Management Mode I select Prefer Maximum Performance.