"GraceyManor;c-17391468" wrote:
I really wish they would fix it.This just started happening to me this month, but apparently its an on going issue.Its like I'm playing on low settings.
@GraceyManor ^Exactly! That's what I've been telling people.
It's like, what was the point of getting this higher end computer to make Sims 3 look sharper and more high def, if the freaking Windows 10 update messed with my Graphics Driver (My Card: NVIDIA GE Force 1050 Ti) and ruined it - to where the in game graphics settings don't matter anymore???
I wish I could change my answer, because at first the little color banding issues didn't bother me, but after another update I saw more pixelation on the walls and sims clothing and...I'm NOT happy! :angry: When you use this game as the illustrator for your stories, and you once had beautiful pictures, and now there's all these pixel flaws in them, that's annoying and frustrating! Windows 10 updates should not even be
touching anyone's graphics cards/drivers IMO!!! (Those updates should be a separate thing).
I know that I am not very computer literate and so I don't understand why this happened, or why the Graphics Drivers would be involved, so anyone who knows more about this and is like, "She don't know what she's talking about...this is why the GD's are affected and...blah blah" please excuse my lack of knowledge and ranting and kindly keep negative comments to yourself.
- @ZeeGee informed me that she updated her Graphics Driver to the recent version and that made the graphics worse...
-I talked to an IT guy and he said
GE Force Experience has the potential to make the graphics worse for an older game like Sims 3 and...I can't remember his reasoning why. Forgive my memory... So I'm staying far away from that.
-I read in another place that Windows 10 updates actually throw people's graphics cards back to a
previous version, so they have to keep updating it to the current one to get their graphics looking back to the way they used to. *I do not think this is the case for us Sims 3 players, in my research it seems the better the graphics card, with the updates, the worse Sims 3 is looking. Because it's older. It must be the way Sims 3 is programmed or something because Sims 2 is much older, but you don't see these kinds of graphical issues in it. ?♀️
For this reason - me not being very computer literate - I contacted a computer repair & build shop in town that also does IT stuff, told them my (and our) dilemma, and they said they would look at my computer and see what they can do free of charge. (The owner told me that). I was like, Sweet! :smiley: Cause they're expensive! :grimace:
So today I'm going to take my computer over there and watch them as we all work to see what we can do to help my game look as wonderful as it did before. This might require uninstalling my current Graphics Driver and going back to an older one, it's just...nailing down the right previous version. Or maybe by them simply changing some settings in my current Graphics Driver will do the trick. Since I don't play any other games - especially high def, 3D ones - on my computer I'm okay with doing this. I'm just leaving this in the hand of experts because I have NO clue what I'm doing and I don't want to destroy my game, GD, or my computer trying to fix this myself.
(Yes I will be backing up my Sims folders ? )
Wish us luck! :star:
If they find a solution I will be
SURE to let all of you know about it on here. :) (If I can remember all the steps they took...I should jot down some notes. :p )
I know this is a long shot, and maybe this is something a few of you have already tried with no success, but I'm willing to give it a shot for my game. :star:
