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I desperately need some graphics advice please!
Tessiexx
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Hi all. I've just bought a new MSI Laptop with1050ti gpu. When I go to play the sims the whole town and the sims themselves are all lit up in some kind of weird lighting bloom. Everything glows! Its a fresh install of the sims... Ive been at this for hours. I've made sure I'm not running on board graphics, I've tried altering the files (not sure if I done them right or not, the config file says I am running windos 8 when I am on windows 10)
please please can someone help. I feel so gutted.
please please can someone help. I feel so gutted.
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Have you used the Nvidia Control Panel to force vsync (On or Adpative, which ever one works), are you playing in full-screen mode, and have you verified that the Control Panel is capping the frame rate to the refresh rate of your monitor? That's usually 60 Hz, so 60 fps, but some monitors can run higher. A 1050Ti is powerful enough to run wild on frame rates and TS3, unlike more modern games, does not have its own fps limiter.
If the Control Panel doesn't cap the fps successfully, many have turned to Nvidia Inspector to do the job.
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You might try using whichever of the tools you have been to cap the fps to some goofy value like 59 or 61 (assuming a 60 Hz screen) if exactly 60 is causing problems. Or of course you could leave it at 30 if the quality of gameplay seems good enough there for now.
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CPU, Memory and Operating System:
Intel Core i7 Kabylake i7-7700HQ quad core processor.
2.8GHz processor speed.
8GB RAM DDR4.
1TB and 128GB HDD storage.
Hard drive speed 5400RPM.
Microsoft Windows 10.
Display features:
17.3 inch screen.
High definition display.
Resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels.
10 ms response time.
Refresh rate60MHz.
160 degree viewing angle.
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForceGTX 1050 ti graphics card with 4GB RAM GDDR5.
Dedicated graphics card.
You can check the fps rates you are actually getting in-game with Shift+Ctrl+C to bring up the cheats console and type fps on (enter), unless you already have a different way to do this. As you play and move the game camera around, you should see how the fps rates are behaving and whether they are staying locked in as instructed. To make the rate display go away, cheats console again and fps off (enter).
The only other thing with that configuration is that I hope you have the game installed on the larger capacity 1 TB HDD (usually the D drive) and your user Documents folder, thus including the TS user game folder, redirected to the large drive. The 128 GB smaller drive (usually C) would be for Windows and systems related programs only. If Windows and/or the games run out of available space on C then things can/will start to malfunction for that reason. But possibly you have already accounted for these things.
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I don't have an Origin install myself anymore having moved over to Steam, but am am pretty sure there is a way to get Origin to shift the game/pack program installs to a different drive. Such as that discussed here, but a Google search might reveal more info (or the same info repeated many times).
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Origin-Moving-Games-to-Another-Hard-Drive-or-System/td-p/5776562
Instructing Windows to redirect the entire user Documents folder should be easy, although I would suggest copying or moving out the game folders and any important documents stored there first just to make sure nothing gets lost in the process.
http://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10
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