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1 year ago

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Edge Smoothing Will Not Turn On

Hi! I have recently bought a pretty decent Mac silicon. The specs are sitting at: Mac mini, Apple M2: 24 GB of memory running Sonoma 14.4.1. Despite this I noticed the edges of my buildings looked ...

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SarahSpareCorne
1 year ago
I have figured it out!
Something you said made me think about looking into specifically the display issue and I found this link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/31f5i6/sims_4_cant_play_the_game_because_my_monitor/
The person mentioning the "-w" was 100% right. Although, I did prior switch to windowed mode, the game had already opened in fullscreen mode and therefore rendered the option of window mode useless concerning fixing the problem. Once I made the game open in window mode, the problem was fixed and now edge smoothing is on.
Kind Regards

Bluebellflora

Hero+

1 year ago

@SarahSpareCorner

I wonder if it’s to do with the display you’re using? Do you have a separate one you could try? Maybe HDMI to a TV?

SarahSpareCorne

1 year ago

ugh, I plugged my computer into my tv and that did fix the problem. Is there anyway I can adjust my computer monitor screen for that issue, or would you know anything about that? I see no point in buying a whole new monitor just for edge smoothing on the sims 4.

Bluebellflora
Hero+
1 year ago
@SarahSpareCorner

Go into System Settings > Displays and play around with the settings. Which monitor do you have?
- SarahSpareCorne
  1 year ago
  This is the computer I bought recently (see attached photo). I am at work right now, but I will look further when I get home. What kind of settings should I be looking for when I do?
  - Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    1 year ago
    @SarahSpareCorner
    
    Not sure really, you'd need to play around and test after changing each setting. There have been previous problems specifically with Mac minis and displays, not so much with Mac notebooks and iMacs. If there is a disconnect between your Mac mini and the Philips display it may be exacerbated in the game. Try the different resolution settings in-game too.