@Franay Your dxdiag lists a number of errors related to the driver for your graphics chip. Try installing the newest one available from Intel:
Restart before trying to play. If you still don't see snow on the ground, let me know, and I'll take a look at my game to see if I can replicate it.
It works now thank you so much. The snow looks so nice in the game.
@noodledxck I take it you've waited long enough to confirm that you don't get any snow cover? Does this happen in a new save as well? Please start one for comparison; you can just let it run for a while, no need to spend much effort on it.
If the snow doesn't appear in the new save either, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
Hello again! I just came back from trying it out on a new save the whole afternoon and the results were sadly the same. I tried to tweak the length of my seasons from 28 to 7 then to 14 in hopes that maybe I just bugged it out to no avail. I even tried to force a blizzard in but still no snow cover. I should say that I do have mods installed but nothing that alters weather or terrain itself so I don't know if it's because of that.
Here's the dxdiag info and some pics if you want to see what I'm experiencing. I think that was by the 4th day of winter on the new save but that's the same scenario in my current save which is at a few days til the season ends.
@noodledxck Please make sure that Sims 4 is using your dedicated graphics card. You can see the card it's using in the config.log, about 30 lines down; the file is in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4. If it's using the integrated AMD chip, let me know.
Just for good housekeeping, please also run a couple of basic checks on your Windows system files—the dxdiag lists a few errors of a basic Windows process.
Finally, let me know whether you're playing through Origin or Steam.
@noodledxck Good, DISM and sfc did their job, so hopefully Windows won't be throwing any more errors worth pursuing. Just because it's easy to do, try clearing Origin's cache:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/
and repairing the game: open your Origin game library, right-click on the Sims 4 icon, and select Repair.
Please also make sure that you don't have laptop mode enabled in the graphics settings. Your laptop doesn't need it—you should be able to play on ultra settings if you want. If you've turned down other settings, please try the default high or ultra profile (you'll need to restart the game to see the effects) and see whether you get snow. You can test your existing save if you'd like, no need to play through a winter in a new save.
The original poster in this thread needed to install a new graphics driver, which in your case would mean first doing a clean uninstall of the current driver. Since that's a bit of work, I'm suggesting other simpler steps first, in case one of them helps without the extra time and effort. If none of them does though, here's how to do a clean uninstall and reinstall.
Download Display Driver Uninstaller from here:
https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3430
Download the newest Nvidia driver for your laptop from Asus (dated 8/31), not Nvidia, here:
https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS-TUF-Gaming-FX505DD-DT-DU/HelpDesk_Download/
Next, take your computer completely offline—disable wifi and/or pull the ethernet cord—and double-click the DDU.exe. Take note of where the file will land, and click Extract. If it's easier, you can copy the path and then paste it into the address bar in a File Explorer window. Open the folder and then launch Display Driver Uninstaller.exe, and you'll get a message that you're not in Safe Mode. Click OK, then go to Options and enable Safe Mode dialog. Here's a screenshot of what your options should look like; make sure the box in red is checked:
Close options, and the DDU, and then open the DDU.exe again. For launch options, choose "Safe Mode (Recommended)," and then click Reboot to Safe Mode (you'll need your password, so find it before rebooting). Once you login, you'll see this:
In the blue box, choose GPU, then Nvidia if it's not already showing. Then click Clean and Restart (red box).
Once your computer has rebooted, now back in normal mode, run the driver install .exe as an admin: right-click on the download and select "Run as administrator."
Restart again, go back online, and test the game.
i had the aep mod and the venue list but deleted it and for some reason i still cant see snow of the ground, even though i can see my sims slip in the snow?
@adeahashani Does this happen in a fresh save as well? Please start one, just for comparison, and move your Mods folder to the desktop while you test.
If that doesn't help, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
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