Sims Medieval and Windows 10

"igazor;c-16471762" wrote:

"SimLibby;c-16471757" wrote:
Hi @phoebebebe13

It's a small world ;)

I got an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 750 Ti and already changed the fps limit in the conf. settings of NVIDIA (right clicking the desktop). I applied it to TS3W.exe and tsm.exe (I even applied it to the launchers) and set the vertical synchronization to adaptive.

I can see how this works for TS3 since I have changed certain files (I followed the instructions from that YouTube film) so the game recognizes my card. But Medieval doesn't recognizes my card and therefore is not using it, I think/assume, so any fps settings can't be applied in relation to the game/card.

Oops, our posts just crossed each other. Unless you have a setup specifically with dual graphics (do you also have an Intel integrated graphics chip?), this is actually impossible. If you only have one graphics card, the game has to use it formally recognized or not, or else there would be no graphics at all -- it won't run that way.

@SimLibby agree with @igazor the 750 ti is a desktop card. It is newer than the game. When you first start the game it will tell you your card is unrecognized . That notice will go away after you start playing a save. You may get that notice every time you start a new save. Just ignore it as long as your game plays fine and your fps is capped. The game is using your card.

this game sometimes has issues with windows 10 one drive and some other update. igazor may know what the other issue is. Make sure you have one drive disabled for all sims games.

Hi @igazor,

You talk some logic ;) I have no integrated graphic cards. I thought maybe Windows/Microsoft had some backup/basic card or something that the game would use if it doesn't know my card. I just checked my dxdiag and device management and found no evidence to support that idea (don't know where I got it from).

I do wonder: the files I edited with TS3 was basically adding my card to the list of cards TS3 knows. Medieval has a similar config file with cards it knows. So where does Medieval gets it's instructions from if there is no configuration that tells it about my card?

Hi @phoebebebe13

The notification did went away and it seems I could play.

"phoebebebe13;c-16471781" wrote:
this game sometimes has issues with windows 10 one drive and some other update. igazor may know what the other issue is. Make sure you have one drive disabled for all sims games.

I'm not sure if I understand/interpreted this right. What drive do you mean? (are you referring to dual cards).


Both your posts do re-assure me. Thank you both very much for your help.

@SimLibby I don't have windows 10. One drive is a program that comes with windows 10 . If I'm not mistaken if you have one drive enabled it will send your sims files to the wrong place . @igazor may be able to explain this better than I can :p

Okay yes, you were correct in that Windows does provide for a minimal amount of display ability should the graphics card be deemed non-functional. You can see this if you ever start up in Safe Mode. But the games can't run and won't really try to using that kind of minimal display ability, it's not very pretty to see and is more for emergency use and troubleshooting purposes only; most of us can barely read the blurry text names of files on our screens when having to startup that way.

In the TS3 user game folder in Documents, there will be a file called DeviceConfig.log. This one tells us which graphics card the game is actually using and which profile it is assigning to it. Again in TS3, if the card is reported as unrecognized (Found 0, Matched 0 or something like that), the game will grant it a lower-level set of defaults. But that doesn't (usually) impact the performance very much. It might throttle the number of sims pushed to visit community lots if the game "thinks" it is running on less than spiffy hardware even if it really isn't. That's part of what the sgr file hocus pocus tries to address.

I don't play TSM but will have to assume that it has the same kind of structure and DeviceConfig.log provided and updated on each startup within its own user game folder.

On the OneDrive thing, where that takes Win 10 users by surprise is that TS3 sometimes finds a Documents folder in there and decides that's where the user game folder should go, so the player ends up with two of them but only one is really read from and written to. If you have OneDrive deactivated or if the games aren't even noticing it and are using the proper user Documents folder, wherever it has been re-directed to, then you're of course fine there.

"igazor;c-16471801" wrote:
it's not very pretty to see and is more for emergency use and troubleshooting purposes only; most of us can barely read the text names of files on our screens when having to startup that way.

This was not the case. Everything was clear. So there I have it: Medieval is not using the back-up system.

"igazor;c-16471801" wrote:
Again in TS3, if the card is reported as unrecognized (Found 0, Matched 0 or something like that), the game will grant it a lower-level set of defaults. But that doesn't (usually) impact the performance very much. That's part of what the sgr file hocus pocus tries to address. I don't play TSM but will have to assume that it has the same kind of structure and DeviceConfig.log provided and updated on each startup within its own user game folder.

It was exactly like that and I performed the hocus pocus. Never realized though it doesn't impact the performance very much. TS3 does run smoother but my computer specs. are much better than my previous Windows 7 computer. I did look in the Medieval conf. files, without changing anything, and it appears to be the same as it is with TS3. Still, I was hesitant to change anything like I did with TS3.

Now I know I don't have to. I got the FPS limit set in place, in-game I can even put on the FPS cheat to make sure it doesn't goes above 60, and the game graphics looks clear to me.

Thank you and thank you phoebebebe13 .

EDIT:
I tend to use the FPS cheat because NVIDIA driver updates resets my TS3 in-game options. It has never reset the vertical synchronization setting in the configuration screen of NVIDIA itself, nevertheless I keep my eye on it.

PS.
About the one drive thing: I got the sentiment/accent wrong and read it as two words so 1 drive.

@phoebebebe13, it is! I tend to use the like/awesome buttons to acknowledge the message of the poster: a sign I have read it to prevent double/power posting (although that intention probably works a bit better on Dutch officials since there it's much quieter, most times it's just two players that are involved in the same topic, so more easy to recognize who have ticked that box). It often feels strange to me using it especially when people are experiencing some (game) problem or annoyance, like with the reset after NVIDIA updates, which are never fun or awesome (hence this message to acknowledge). But I assume many players share that intention and use if for exactly that.

I've been lost in Medieval the last couple of weeks (without editing any files ;), except testingcheats) and it works flawless (also Windows 10). Love those achievements.

I tried so hard to get my Sims Medieval disk to work, but it never did. I ended up purchasing the game on Origin with the Pirates and Nobles expansion pack. It was a great idea.
A. I love the expansion pack!
B. The game itself runs much smoother than it ever did on my Windows 7
I definitely think it was worth the extra money.

When I couldn't get TSM to work on Windows 10, I spoke to customer support. All I had to do was provide a picture of my disc with the product code next to it and they added the digital version to my library. I already had a digital copy of P & N, it was just the base game I needed to replace.

It runs fine now and I haven't noticed any problems with gameplay or performance.

"ajadra;c-16846717" wrote:
Lucian_Hodoboc I believe so. Maybe "steam" is meant as stream as in digital download from Origin :) I know my phone and any auto correct likes to adjust my words and sentences to totally different than what I typed in :D

"Lucian_Hodoboc;c-16841349" wrote:
> @aws200 said:
> I bought it on Steam

Isn't Sims an Origin game though? I thought it was created by EA.

Steam is another PC based service that offers Sim games for sale.