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Simtasticgallery
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11 months ago
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The DirectX11 commands doesn't make the option to appear in The Sims 4 game

Hi. I tried to follow the tutorial to opt in to turn on the DirectX11 on my Sims 4 game. My game is patched with the latest update, is original and everything works great so far. But I need help unde...
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    holger1405
    11 months ago
    @Simtasticgallery wrote:

    So, once my Dad do this..  

    I will be able to see the option in game? 

    To be clear, there are no new graphical settings in the game due to this change.

    The game is simply rendered in DirectX 11 instead of DirectX 9, the only change you see in the beginning is the new DirecX version displayed in the bottom right corner of your screen:

    The real changes are all "under the hood", meaning that the more modern API DirecX 11 (Application Programming Interface) offers advantages over DirecX 9 that are executed automatically.

    (hardware-based tessellation, multithreading support, DirectCompute, new shader models to name a few.)
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Simtasticgallery
New Adventurer
11 months ago

Ohh okay, I thought we could toggle in / off this feature once we typed in the commands (on the EA App and the shortcut) to be able to see them function properly.

But yeah, I will take a look at what you said once I open my game in the next few hours.

Thank you so much, once again!

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holger1405
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11 months ago

@Simtasticgallery 

You can only toggle it by removing or adding the  "-dx11" line before you star the game.

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    Simtasticgallery
    New Adventurer
    11 months ago

    Yeah I just checked and I have it on my game, thanks!

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