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gloomytraitt
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5 months ago

My graphics in tab mode are terrible

I have my graphics settings to ultra but my graphics in tab mode are absolutely awful. It looks like I have them on the lowest setting. It looks fine in game it is just in tab mode that they are bad. The camera has also been acting very weird which causes things to disappear when I am a get closer them. I’m just wondering if anyone knows how to fix this because it is really annoying when I’m trying to take screenshots in game. 

Also I don’t use any graphics mods or reshade or anything. I play on Mac and I don’t have many mods installed, all of which are up to date. This has been happening since before the update. So I don’t think it’s related to that.

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  • gloomytraitt can you try a mod free game to rule out mods being the issue. Move out the Mods folder and trash the localthumbcache.package file.

    Can you also post a screenshot of how the game looks normally and one in live/tab camera?

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    gloomytraitt
    Seasoned Novice
    5 months ago

    Here are the two pictures. This is after I removed my mods folder and deleted the localthumbcache.package file. The changes are kind of slight in this but the sims face is obviously blurred as well as some of the background objects. The shadows also seem to be affected. 

     

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    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    5 months ago

    gloomytraitt yes, ever so slightly blurry bit not to the point where the graphics look awful. Could you post a screenshot of your in-game graphics options? Which specific model Mac are you playing on and which version of macOS?

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    gloomytraitt
    Seasoned Novice
    5 months ago

    My mac model is the 2024 model of the MacBook pro and the macOS is Sequoia 15.3.1. I upgraded my computer a few months ago and this issue wasn't happening on my old 2015 MacBook pro so I don't think its an issue with the model. It was also fine for the first few months of having it, this just randomly started happening a month ago.  

    Here is a picture of my graphics settings.

    I know the graphics issue isn't major and my game runs fine otherwise so it's not the worst issue to have, mostly just an aesthetic issue, its just annoying enough to bother me when I play, especially since it was fine up till a few weeks ago. 

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    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    5 months ago

    gloomytraitt 

    Which specific chip does your Mac have? Apple > About This Mac. I have the 16" M4 Max. This is what my sim looks like. I've cropped and zoomed in for detail but took one photo in live mode and one in live mode with the tab camera:

     

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    gloomytraitt
    Seasoned Novice
    5 months ago

    I have the 14” M3. But again, it ran perfectly fine with no visual blurs on my older MacBook and it was fine on my laptop up until a few weeks ago.

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    gloomytraitt
    Seasoned Novice
    5 months ago

    It’s alright! Thanks for trying to help! I will keep messing with things and see if anything helps.