@Evil_Mantis14 It's probably your custom content. If you have a lot of it, you can use the 50/50 method to sort through the files.
https://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Finding_Problem_Custom_Content#The_50.25_Method
If you test with no mods or cc at all, and having deleted localthumbcache, and you still see the same issue, let me know.
As I said, it's not CC related but I took out my mods anyway to test it and it's definitely a graphics issue. I have tried reducing the quality via the in-game graphics settings but that hasn't helped. Having said that, the only thing that seems to work is when I'm in windowed fullscreen mode which is fine if I can't fix this issue for normal fullscreen mode but I would like to know if there's any fix that anyone can think of.
If necessary, I can provide more pictures.
@Evil_Mantis14 Do you use Reshade, SweetFX, or any other graphics-effects program? If so, please try disabling it. It is strange though that regular fullscreen shows this effect when windowed fullscreen does not. It would be interesting to see a side-by-side comparison one frame as seen in each mode.
I'd also like to see a dxdiag, just in case there's something else going on. Please run one and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
Hello. I don't use any of those things in my game. I've attached my DxDiag for you to have a look at.
@Evil_Mantis14 There's nothing obvious in your dxdiag, and since your graphics driver is a few months old, I doubt this is just about the driver, or you would have noticed it before. (I'm not suggesting you need to update the driver, at least not at this point, just observing.)
If you happen to be using any filters through Nvidia Freestyle, please disable them; you can open the options with alt-F3.
If that doesn't help or isn't relevant, please try playing in a clean boot:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10
When you reboot, please also go through the Task Manager's background processes list and disable anything that isn't critical. For example, the Corsair software may still be running (even though that goes against what a clean boot is for), but you don't absolutely need it for this test. Anything you shut down will restart the next time you reboot.
If that doesn't make a difference either, please take some side-by-side screenshots of a sim in CAS, in both fullscreen and windowed fullscreen. It would help if you used one of the premade sims, so I can compare with my own game, but if not, just widen the shot enough that I can see what skins and items you're using. Please use base game items(not from packs), just to keep things simple.
I haven't even heard of Nvidia Freestyle and unfortunately the in-game screenshots don't capture what I've showed you so that's why I have to take the pictures with my phone.
@Evil_Mantis14 Photos from your phone are fine, or you can try using prntscreen. (Windows key-shift-S works in windowed fullscreen at least but may not in exclusive fullscreen.) Either way though, I'd really like to see a comparison between the "normal" look of windowed fullscreen and the overly defined look of regular fullscreen. You can switch between the two modes without changing what's showing in the game window, so you could take otherwise identical shots of what you see in each.
If it looks fine in "Windowed" mode but not in "Fullscreen" mode, then you have the two modes set differently.
"Windowed" mode runs the game at whatever resolution and settings you have set up in Windows. Settings in the game are pretty much ignored then.
"Fullscreen" mode runs the game in whatever settings are configured in the game, and whatever the OS is set to is ignored.
If Windowed works but Fullscreen doesn't, then you need to set the GAME to the same settings you already have configured in Windows.
If it works in Windowed mode, I would tend to leave it there. Windowed mode is only slightly slower than Fullscreen. Plus Fullscreen mode will tend to crash the game if you have a tendency to ALT-TAB out to do something else. Windowed mode won't have that problem.
There are benefits to both. Fullscreen is a little bit faster, plus you can lower the resolution in Fullscreen mode to speed it up even further without it messing up your desktop icon arrangements.
Personally, I tend to do several things at once all the time, so ALT-TABbing out is something I do a lot, and I'd much rather it not crash when I do. Mine's always on Windowed mode.
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