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GraphicsRules Modification Makes No Difference After Generations/Patch
Kolby
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A while back when news broke out that EA programmed Late Night to demand an unnecessary arm and a leg from our PC's to stock clubs with more Sims, Neverent, a simmer here on these forums, found a way to beat that system.
The way to do it was to find the GraphicsRules.sgr file and modify it with just a switch of some numbers in a specific way. When all was done, your game was to believe that suddenly your CPU was a 4 out of 4 instead of a 1, 2 or 3 out of 4. Thus, giving you more Sims per club.
Basically, the game rates all your specs and some of the unlucky Simmers like myself got a 1 for my CPU rating, even though my processor is certainly far beyond requirements.
Neverent's guide was a way to overcome this silly limit. It worked even through OLS, but now with Generations, after I modified the GraphicsRules, it still has not changed my CPU: 1 to a CPU: 4. I'm wondering if EA saw us doing this and changed it so that we can't fiddle with their coding.
I'm going to be very disapointed if I cannot get this rating to change. I will NOT go back to empty clubs, when I've seen full clubs after modifying a simple file.
I was just wondering if anyone else is having the same problem as myself! It's the only thing holding me back from playing Generations.
The way to do it was to find the GraphicsRules.sgr file and modify it with just a switch of some numbers in a specific way. When all was done, your game was to believe that suddenly your CPU was a 4 out of 4 instead of a 1, 2 or 3 out of 4. Thus, giving you more Sims per club.
Basically, the game rates all your specs and some of the unlucky Simmers like myself got a 1 for my CPU rating, even though my processor is certainly far beyond requirements.
Neverent's guide was a way to overcome this silly limit. It worked even through OLS, but now with Generations, after I modified the GraphicsRules, it still has not changed my CPU: 1 to a CPU: 4. I'm wondering if EA saw us doing this and changed it so that we can't fiddle with their coding.
I'm going to be very disapointed if I cannot get this rating to change. I will NOT go back to empty clubs, when I've seen full clubs after modifying a simple file.
I was just wondering if anyone else is having the same problem as myself! It's the only thing holding me back from playing Generations.
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The only help I can give is an educated guess: Have you tried altering the Graphics Rules file in the Generations folder instead of the Late Night one? I would think that the most recent set is the one that needs to be changed as a quick look informed me that the older expansion packs each had their own Graphics Rule documents that I never changed. Let me know if this works.
Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, I had moved on from Late Night to Outdoor Living Stuff. I did the same alteration to the OLS GraphicsRules. It worked fine. But even when I switched in the original, ran the game & quit, then installed Generations and the patch, the Generations GraphicsRules does not change the DeviceConfig after being altered. I'm wondering if I should try altering the GraphicsRules found in the base game folder.
Oh my God THANK YOU. Are you absolutely sure?
Just to clarify, should I put the original Generations GraphicsRules.sgr back in, and only alter the Base Game GR.sgr?
Could altering the GraphicsRules.sgr file be causing this?