Terrain looks poop quality

pitypartysimmer  Your GPU is rated as low, and changing that may help if you're interested.  You must have edited the .sgr files, or used a tool to do it for you, or replaced the original files, since your graphics chip's device ID isn't in the game's original database.  But if you don't know how to do it yourself, open GraphicsRules.sgr, which will be here by default for an EA App install:

C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 3\Game\Bin

Search for havendale , which will bring you to the Intel GPU section of the file:

elseif (match("${cardVendor}", "Intel"))
    seti intelShadowColorFix true
    if (match("${cardName}", "*Havendale*"))
	seti cardLevel $cardLevelMedium
	seti isCardMatched true
    elseif (match("${cardName}", "*4?00*"))
	seti cardLevel $cardLevelLowmedium
	seti isCardMatched true
    elseif (match("${cardName}", "*SandyBridge*"))
	seti cardLevel $cardLevelMedium
	seti isCardMatched true
    elseif (match("${cardName}", "*IvyBridge*"))
	seti cardLevel $cardLevelMedium
	seti isCardMatched true
    elseif (match("${cardName}", "*Iris*"))
	seti cardLevel $cardLevelMedium
	seti isCardMatched true
    else
        seti cardLevel $cardLevelLow
        seti isCardMatched true

For that second-to-last line, change Low to Medium (as in, seti cardLevel $cardLevelMedium), with a capital M, save, close the file, open the game, quit, and see how your GPU is rated now.  It should be a 3 rather than a 1, right at the top of DeviceConfig.  If the rating is correct, delete Options.ini and see how the game looks on the new default settings.  You can open a new save if you don't want to affect the other settings in your main saves.

If this doesn't change the rating, please post the above section of GraphicsRules.sgr so I can see whether there are any new entries that would cover your GPU.

If this does change the rating, but the game still looks bad, make sure Advanced Rendering is enabled in the graphics options.  Change it at the Main Menu and quit to desktop before loading a save.