Warning for AMD GPU owners for Sims 4. Serious reflection glitch. *FIXED/PATCHED
This issue effecting AMD gpu's has been resolved officially via recent AMD drivers, thank you for EA or/and AMD for helping resolve this issue!
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So after a bunch of searching we basically discovered the ISSUE. The Sims 4 is programmed on old directx9 libraries which newer AMD gpu's seem to have an issue with, for example lower frame rates in some games. In the case of the Sims 4, it cannot properly render mirrored reflections because newer AMD cards do not fully support all directx9 "features".
The answer for this came from an unlikely source, a linux DLL fix to run old directx games on new AMD cards called DXVK, that also happens to work with windows 10/11.
Basically the updated DLL libraries tells the AMD video card to render it by Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11, which indirectly created backwards compatibility with older games and new AMD gpus.
Except this only works if you download the DXVK and install its libraries for D9 into the Sims 4 bin folder.
Maxis and AMD won't officially do it, meaning there will never be an official fix for the game unless Maxis updates the code of the Sims 4 to directx12.
Thats the only way or using DXVK. So technically until Sims 4 is updated to Directx12, the AMD is right. Current GPU's are NOT compatible with Sims 4 because its written on unsupported directx9 libraries.
(fyi edited this post into my topic post too)
The answer for this came from an unlikely source, a linux DLL fix to run old directx games on new AMD cards called DXVK, that also happens to work with windows 10/11.
Basically the updated DLL libraries tells the AMD video card to render it by Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11, which indirectly created backwards compatibility with older games and new AMD gpus.
Except this only works if you download the DXVK and install its libraries for D9 into the Sims 4 bin folder.
Maxis and AMD won't officially do it, meaning there will never be an official fix for the game unless Maxis updates the code of the Sims 4 to directx12.
Thats the only way or using DXVK. So technically until Sims 4 is updated to Directx12, the AMD is right. Current GPU's are NOT compatible with Sims 4 because its written on unsupported directx9 libraries.
(fyi edited this post into my topic post too)
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