Warning for AMD GPU owners for Sims 4. Serious reflection glitch. *FIXED/PATCHED

"Stormkeep;c-18062280" wrote:

"nicguy101;c-18062265" wrote:
I really like AMD and I'm considering buying a new card. Do you know to fix it for Sims 3?

A quick search of the answers HD for EA turned up this fix, which people later in the thread confirm as working for them with TS3. The post in that link has a few responses further into the thread that help provide clarity in exactly what you need to do, so read further if you need additional help beyond what the linked post provides.

I post as wolvescreek/thats me that found the fix for Sims 3 on the bug forums (i'd update my name here, but I can't find a way?) so if you have any questions, feel free to ask me here or there about that fix.

"Jyotai;c-18061677" wrote:

"logion;c-18031788" wrote:
You would think this would have been a bigger more well known issue considering that a lot of people play on PC and probably use AMD GPUs.

In terms of high end GPUs, it's been pretty standard for almost 2 decades now to warn people away from ever buying AMD GPUs....

So there is a big positive I'd like to add for buying a AMD, that a lot of people don't always take into consideration - that being the previous and current generation of consoles (ps5, ect) have AMD gpus. So when games are often made especially with a console release on launch, they are designed and optimized for AMD gpu architecture.

This is why I bought AMD again, because more often than not when a new game is released or ported from consoles, pc players flood forums with performance issues effecting nvidia cards. Issues I rarely have with an AMD GPU unless the issues also exist on console.

Overall I'm happy with my AMD GPU, except they've done a horrible job making sure old games/directx libraries are backwards compatible with them. Which is the case with the Sims 4.

Honestly the easiest official fix, would be to update Sims 4 to Directx12 libraries, solving the issue for AMD owners. Although I'm not sure how easy that would be to do/would have been easier when they coded/updated Sims 4 to 64bit exe a couple years back.