It seems like something that has happened after an update? I am unsure. But my sim's skin and details seem grainy? With and without mods it does it. It's really bugging me and I need it fixed, so help would be appreciated :)
AThirstyMonster Thanks for the dxdiag, which crashed while running and lists a number of Windows errors. So please run a couple of basic checks of your Windows system files:
Restart your computer, hit Windows key-i, select Update & Security, and click the box to check for updates. If any install, restart again afterwards.
For the issue itself, please test in both DirectX 9 and 11 modes and let me know whether one looks right, or close enough. The check box for DX9 mode is in the graphics settings, to the right of uncompressed sim textures. Please restart after switching and before testing out the setting. And please test with no mods or custom content present, at least for now.
If you notice a problem in both modes, please post a couple more screenshots (still with no mods or cc) and zoom in and/or highlight the issues. I'm not really seeing them in your screenshots, although I trust you when you say they're there. I'm not sure whether the effect is too subtle, only showing in-game and not in screenshots, or getting lost in translation with the less-than-perfect way this site displays images. If you can't get the screenshots to look the way you want, you could instead upload them to a third-party image hosting site like imgur and provide a link.
I did as you asked It told me all was fine the second one said "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."
BothAnd yeah the effect is REALLY subtle without cc but I still manage to notice it (And since I'm a CC player it's really bad for my cc sims) But Ive noticed it to be around the lis mouth area its really hard to see, but like around the mouth/where the lip ends to the skin, eyes, and nose doesnt look smooth. I also tried grtting rid of all of my mods except for ONE cc lipstick, and it did the same. I used a cc that hadnt had this problem before aswell. (And I also turned my Gshade off)
This photo here is also Direct x11 the nect one will be Direct x9. Also i feel like a better word to describe it is blurry? i mean the other words i used too may still apply?
Heres Dx9 i tried using SRWE to zoom in better but it wouldnt work so. But it looks pretty much the same
Example with just the singular cc lipstic just incase. but if you notice the lip is quite pixly/grainy. this is without any other cc and this lipstick hasnt alwasy been like this
And also i should mention the presets and like icons or whatevr theyre called also arent looking good theys eem pixlatd almost?
AThirstyMonster I do see what you mean, I think, and I might have some suggestions once I see how your GPU is rated by the game. (A lot of internal settings are dependent on ratings and not necessarily user-accessible.) First though, please turn Edge Smoothing to the max and restart the game, and let me know whether it helps. You don't need to keep the setting on; this is just a test.
For the ratings, go into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4, open Config.log, and post the two lines under Ratings Info.
Yeah turning on edge smoothing didnt do anything but here's the rating.
GPU: 5 GPU Memory: 4 CPU: 3 RAM: 4 CPU Speed: 2096 Threading: 3
Adjusted CPU: 2944 RAM: 11597 Adjusted RAM: 11085 Cores: 6
AThirstyMonster Your hardware all has the max rating except for the CPU, which shouldn't affect how the graphics work. I poked around a bit in GraphicsRules.sgr and saw some settings that I don't completely understand, in that they could be referring to different user settings, but you don't need to edit this file to experiment a bit.
First, please remove Options.ini from Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4, so the game creates a new one with all default settings. Don't change anything; just load CAS and have a look. When you're done, you can trash the new file and restore the old one to have all your old settings back.
If that doesn't help, try setting your user DPI scaling to 96 (100%), just as a test. Here's how:
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-display-dpi-scaling-level-in-windows-11.934/
Restart your computer after changing the setting and before trying to play. If the desktop icons are too small for you, that's fine; just revert when you've finished looking at the game.
Yeah unfortunately those didn't work. :')
AThirstyMonster I'm not totally sure I can help with this, but if you're up for experimenting, please make a copy of GraphicsRules.sgr, in [install location]\The Sims 4\Game\Bin. Place it in ConfigOverride inside the user folder the game is reading. Please check that it's the right folder; here's how:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2018/07/how-to-find-your-user-folder/
The idea is that you can experiment on this copy of GraphicsRules, in ConfigOverride, and trash it if an edit goes badly or you want to revert to default settings. Please understand that I don't know exactly how changing these settings will affect your game, so this should be considered completely experimental. At worst, however, the game crashes and you delete the copy of GraphicsRules you edited and you're back to normal.
Open this file, search for option SimQuality, and you'll see a bunch of values for the various Sim Quality settings. Under setting $VeryHigh, set CASSimTextureSize to 4096 rather than its current 2048. Immediately above that, set the first value for RenderSimTextureSizes to 4096 as well. Try just these two settings first.
If you don't get the effects you want, look at this section just below the one you were working with:
if ($vMemoryLevel < $vMemoryLevelHigh or $ramLevel < $ramLevelHigh)
prop $ConfigGroup SimCacheSizeLimit 200
elseif ($ramLevel == $ramLevelHigh)
prop $ConfigGroup SimCacheSizeLimit 350
else
prop $ConfigGroup SimCacheSizeLimit 512
Change that last 512 to 1024 , but don't change anything else. (The other settings shouldn't apply to you because your computer's RAM is rated Uber.
Please let me know whether you notice any changes at all, good or bad. We can try messing with some other settings too, but I'd rather know the effects of one at a time. And frankly, I'm not picky enough about my sims' appearances to be a proper guinea pig here—I just don't have the eye for detail.
So when i tried the first option... this happened...
AThirstyMonster Well, I guess that setting is a bust. That's why it was worth testing on a copy of the .sgr file, and like I said, I didn't know what the setting would do. But please make absolutely sure you didn't add or change any other value, for example writing 4,096 with a comma could break things, as could accidentally deleting even one character. If you're not sure whether you did that, you can try again with another fresh copy of GraphicsRules.sgr.
If that doesn't help, try changing the other setting on a fresh copy of the file, still in ConfigOverride.
And like I said, this is all experimental, but also not harmful in the long term.
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