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LeoLaddd's avatar
11 years ago
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Sims 4 Out of range

hi i wanted to know of there was anyway to change the ingame resolution without booting up the game as i know i have an old monitor and i do not currently have the money to buy a new one. i know my ingame resolution is too high as when i load up the game my monitor goes black with a box saying signal out of range. bare in mind i havent yet been able to play the game due to thi and when i go to properties and change it to run in 640x240 resolution this doesnt work either can somene help me please thanks much appreciated

  • Hola ... Creo que esta es una posible solución ... Presione ALT + ENTER que pondrá Juego Modo de la ventana y creo que lo hará asi ...

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  • Hola ... Creo que esta es una posible solución ... Presione ALT + ENTER que pondrá Juego Modo de la ventana y creo que lo hará asi ...

  • fons_garmo's avatar
    fons_garmo
    Hero (Retired)
    9 years ago

    Translation of @Joseph-M-Forever 's post:

    Hi... I think this is a possible solution... Press Alt + Enter and the game will go to fullscreen mode and I think that will do.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    If none of the above has worked for you navigate to Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4. Locate the file called Options. First copy the file to a safe location, so you have a backup copy of the original. Now right click that file and open it with Notepad.

    Look for the lines

    resolutionheight = [number]

    resolutionwidth = [number]

    Change those two to the correct resolution for your monitor.

    If you need to get the game in Windowed mode, find the line that says

    fullscreen = 1

    change the 1 to a 0 (zero)

    Save the file, try the game again. If it fails, you still have the copy of the original file you made, so you can try different settings in the one you just edited.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    thank you/gracias this works press ALT+ENTER
  • EA_Kent's avatar
    EA_Kent
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    5 years ago

    Hi everyone, 

    This is a rather old thread that hasn't been updated in several years, so I went ahead and locked it to prevent further necro-posting. 

    If you are having trouble with an issue like this, and the steps recommended above aren't helping, please create a new thread and we'll take a look. Thanks!

    /Kent