Re: Artifacting on Macs with AMD GPUs or M1 chips

It is affecting Windows users too - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Weird-texture-lines-on-some-objects-when-hit-by-direct-light/m-p/9812011

I also have it on my MacBook Air with M1:

I thought it may be a hardware issue with AMD GPUs but my air doesn't have an AMD, even though the Config.log thinks it is:

=== Graphics device info ===
Number:          0
Name (driver):   Unknown Unknown
Name (database): AMD Radeon R9 370 and 8800 Series [Found: 1, Supported: 1]
Vendor:          ATI
Chipset:         Vendor: 1002, Device: 6810, Board: 00000000, Chipset: 0000
Driver:          macOS Metal driver, Version: 0.0.0.0
Driver version:  0
Monitor:         FD626D62
Texture memory:  5461MB

Just updated to 1.72.28.1230 and noticed this in the EL world:

Little update - Simp4Sims has uploaded a GraphicsRules.sgr file that improves the in-game graphics considerably and overrides the default Mac settings. It doesn't fix this issue but I did see an improvement in my game. I posted about it here and there's a link to his site to download the file 🙂 https://bluebellflora.com/2021/07/10/improve-the-graphics-in-your-sims-4-game/