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Lyoufln
6 years ago
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[FIXED] [MAC] Windenburg flora looks weird on low settings

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.58.63.1210
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get Together, Seasons, Parenthood, Laundry Stuff, Toddler Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go into a save file and play in a household (or use build mode) in the Windenburg Ancient Ruins, Countryside, or Island with low graphics (I have included pictures of the Windenburg Island below).
What happens when the bug occurs? Grasses and wildflowers outside of build/buy mode range will appear to be green/tan blocks. They looked like grass and flowers on low settings before the November 12 patch.
What do you expect to see? Non-blocky grass and flora.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. The November 12, 2019 patch

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One of the Windenburg Island beaches

Another picture blocky grasses on the Windenburg Island

My game graphics settings

I hope this could be changed. It's pretty immersion-breaking to have normal-looking everything else and suddenly grass that looked like it came from Minecraft!

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    6 years ago

    Fixed a graphic issue that could occur on Mac with some Intel graphics cards that caused plants in Windenburg to appear blocky when in Laptop Mode.
    - So if you are on a Mac, with an intel graphics card, and you are in laptop mode, and you are playing in Windenburg… we got you covered.

    Fixed in Patch 1.62.67

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  • Lyoufln's avatar
    Lyoufln
    6 years ago

    Update: It seems this is only affecting the Windenburg countryside, island, and ruins. I've done a quick check of the other worlds (Willow Creek, Newcrest, Oasis Springs) and everything appears as it did on low graphics pre-patch.

    World flowers and grasses look weird/blocky in both the Windenburg island and countryside

    The flowers in the back are in the 'world'. The daisies in the front were placed on a residential lot by me.

  • Lyoufln's avatar
    Lyoufln
    6 years ago

    Hi @crinrict 🙂

    I changed my view distance to "Low," but it seems that the problem still persists.

    (these were both taken on the Windenburg Island in the same save file)

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago
    @Lyoufln Sorry for the misunderstanding. You need to set the distance to something other than low and leave everything else on low.
  • Lyoufln's avatar
    Lyoufln
    6 years ago

    Hi @crinrict 

    Oops! I tried it again. This time, all my settings are set to "Low" except for distance. Unfortunately, the plants are still looking pretty blocky.

    (settings I used for this picture)

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    I tested this in my game with the exact settings you had in your first post and it looks fine for me

    What kind of graphics card do you have ?

  • Lyoufln's avatar
    Lyoufln
    6 years ago

    @crinrictIt's "Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB"

    Up until the patch, the grasses in my game looked just like the grasses in  your screenshot.

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