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Thanks! I’ve been playing around with the mod and it’s exactly what I needed! I see what you mean about a test save. I did read through everything but I still messed up the settings at first. I didn’t realise you had to enable notifications so I didn’t think anything was happening and I increased the pregnancy settings and…
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Ohh! I didn’t know that! Now I feel a bit silly! :blush: I just saw that it was sent through the post and assumed it was on a disc! (It probably shows just how long I’d been playing on TS3 with discs, I’m so out of the loop! Lol :D ) Well, if it’s just a code, that’s even better then! Thanks for answering! :)
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Thank you both! It's good to hear that it should be alright if I keep an eye on things. :) I've downloaded Origin and when I was installing it, there was a tick box to automatically keep Origin and games up to date, so I unticked that and afterwards checked those settings SimplyJen mentioned and they were already greyed…
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Okay, I'll check the settings in Inspector next time I get an update and I'll be keeping an eye on the fps with the cheat on just in case it happens again. Thanks again! :)
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I've just set the frame rate limiter to 60 and that seems to have fixed it! I'm in game now with the fps cheat on and it hasn't gone over 60 since. :) I've just googled how to find what my monitors refresh rate is (honestly I find windows 10 so confusing to use!) and I found it under display adapter properties. It says 60…
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Thanks for the link for 7zip. I've followed the instructions for Nvidia Inspector and set it to Force On for TS3 but I've gone back into my game and it's still over 200 fps, it even went up to 400 as I was quitting the game. I just don't understand what's going wrong. :( I did notice something but I don't know if makes a…
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I've downloaded Nvidia Inspector now but it's a rar file and it won't open. Is there a way to open rar files on Windows 10? I'm sorry for asking so many silly questions! I do appreciate the help.
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Thank you for replying. I'm always a bit nervous about downloading things on my laptop because of the risk of viruses but I think I'll need to try it. Silly question but if I click under Download Locations and 'Download Nvidia Profile Inspector - Mirror EU' will that one be safe to download?
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I just thought I'd update that I think the issue has now been fixed! :) I think it was the compatibility pop up after all. I googled how to turn it off (by clicking properties on my game icon and finding the compatibility section) and loaded up my game again and the frame rate is now back to 60! I noticed with the fps…
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Thanks! I have sent a PM to chesterbigbird. :) Yeah, I just want to play in full screen mode like did before. To be honest, I'm not sure how to tell if it is loading in windowed mode but it's just the only thing I could think of to explain about why the frame rates have changed. There might be another reason for it but I'm…
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Thank you @phoebebebe13 I've just checked the NVIDIA control panel under program settings and it looks like vertical sync and triple buffering are both already on as they were before but I'm still getting the higher over 200 frame rates. I'm now wondering if something to do with the compatibility pop up has changed the…
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Thank you @Mendota! I did what you said and it's changed it to Windows 8 compatibility. I loaded up my game and it looks like it's back to the correct display size. :) The only problem I have now is the frame rate is back up to over 200 which made me exit as fast as I could so I haven't checked the other settings yet. I'm…
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I'm pleased to say the update worked and the circle has now gone! I had to update the Realtek driver first then Nahimic but once the new version of Nahimic was installed I could finally open its control panel. The sound tracker was switched on in there, so that's definitely what the circle was. I turned it off and I…
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Thank you for explaining. It doesn't sound too scary like that! I did try searching for the Nihimic control panel, I can find the desktop app for it but that won't open either, so I'm think that I won't be able to access any of it until I do the update. I did find my laptop model on MSI's site and I found the Nahimic…
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@Chellejo Thank you for the suggestions. I'm not sure how to use msconfig but I looked in task manager under start up and there is something there called Nahimic2UILauncher with an option to disable it. I think I have Realtek too, if I click on my speakers it says "Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)". In the taskbar,…
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@igazor I wasn't sure whether to post here or in the PM but I thought I'd post a close up image of the circle mark here just in case anyone recognises it. This is what it looks like on a lighter background: You're right, it does look like it's a circle in a square and it does look a bit like a logo but I have no idea what…
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Thank you both for responding. @igazor I think vsync is on in the Intel control panel as far as I can tell. It's worded differently on there, so it doesn't exactly say it's on but I have it set to driver settings, which says "Select driver settings to synchronize the display of images with the screen refresh rate" which…
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I hope it's okay to start a new thread about this but I've started to experience a weird graphics problem again on my new laptop and I don't know what to do. I played TS3 last week without any issues and everything was fine when I first started up the game today but just after I'd switched the cheat codes box on to check…
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@SuzyCue72 I'm so relieved it fixed it! Thank you for posting about about it. I wouldn't have even thought about changing the Intel graphics. It seems like a lot of people had the same problem too reading through those threads. I didn't use any programs to take the screenshot. Print screen on it's own doesn't work for me…
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Thank you @SuzyCue72. I've been having a bit of a nightmare with this tonight. After I'd changed to driver settings in Intel, I checked NVIDIA again and found that my settings in that had returned to default. I think this was possibly because I installed a big Windows 10 update earlier. I'll make sure to always check it's…
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I was in full screen mode. I'm thinking it might be the Intel that @SuzyCue72 mentioned that's causing this because vertical sync does still appear to be switched on in the NVIDIA control panel. I just can't see any way to switch it on in the Intel control panel. There's only the two options under vertical sync,…
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So I just loaded up the game to check with the cheat on and the numbers were between 200-300 and there was a weird circle on one side of the screen. That's not good is it? I don't think it's working so I shut the game down. That won't have done any damage will it? I'm worried now. I only loaded a neighbourhood, it was on…
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@SuzyCue72 Thanks for reminding me about checking the frame rate. I'll use the cheat when I play to see what it is. I've clicked 3D in the intel control panel and found vertical settings. It has two options: Application settings Driver settings I can't see anything there that says to switch it on but application settings…
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I think I've fixed it. I clicked on 'add' again in the NVIDIA control panel and selected the sims 3. This time it's now added the ts3w.exe to the list of programs to customise, so I've been able to switch on vertical sync and triple buffering with that too. Hopefully that's everything I needed to do to the settings. I just…
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Thanks for the link @igazor. I do use mods so I've installed the patch with the superpatcher and my game version is now showing as 1.67. Since installing the patch I've checked again in the NVIDIA control panel for a ts3w.exe but there isn't one there. There's only: Sims 3 (ts3.exe) Sims 3 (sims3launcher.exe) In the drop…
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Thank you for the help everyone. It's very much appreciated. :) @McTosh I've just switched Triple Buffering to on in the NVIDIA control panel but I can't see any option to force v-sync on in there. Is that the same as having vertical sync on? I'm sorry if that's a really silly question. It's all new to me and I'm still…
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Thanks @igazor! I've installed all the expansions and stuff packs that I own and followed the instructions in the screenshot you posted. I haven't played the game properly yet (I didn't realise installing would take so long!) but I've been into the game and everything looks okay so far. I did notice that my options in the…
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Hi everyone! I just thought I'd post an update. I gave it a lot of thought and I decided to buy the MSI laptop. I'm so excited to finally have a new computer! :D I'm still in the process of setting it all up and transferring my stuff from my old computer but I was reading through the posts above and I'm wondering if I need…
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Thanks, there's some really good points to think about there. :) Space is an issue now, so that's one of the reasons I wanted to replace my desktop with a laptop. I'd only really use it at home, so I don't mind if it's not portable. I'd probably just keep it plugged in most of the time. The graphics card thing does worry…
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Thank you, that's very helpful. The other cyberpower does look good too but it's over £120 more than I can get the MSI for. (I'll delete the link in my first post now and just put the specs instead because I've just realised it's showing a higher price on there) :) I can buy the MSI for £850 and I don't think that I'd be…
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