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5 years ago

Mac Pro 2010 with High Sierra and metal video card

So I have a Mac Pro 2010 with High Sierra and a metal compliant video card, but Sims 4 says it can't recognize the card.  I've tried finding a way to get it to work, stumbled upon a thread on how to ...
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5 years ago

@Bluebellflora @Yes I did read through that thread, my Mac reports the gpu as metal but the game initially said it wasn’t recognized. I did finally find the graphics config file to edit and add my card there (it was missing the Nvidia part of the line) but the game won’t even tell me my card isn’t recognized now even after uninstalling and reinstalling, it just say I’m missing legacy for it to run 

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5 years ago
@scottveazie

Could you screenshot the bit in About This Mac > Graphics/Displays showing the info about your GPU?
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      5 years ago

      @Bluebellflora @Well I decided to change out the video card with a Radeon 580 and now it launches the game fine, although it a pretty darn blurry.

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        5 years ago
        @scottveazie

        Maybe need to play around with the settings and raise the resolution?

        I have the 8Gb Radeon 580X in my iMac and have a crazy high resolution setting so the game looks really crisp.

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