I have a Intel GMA 3000 its supposed to be supported by the sims 3 but I have distorted pet issues... Everything else works perfectly fine except for the distorted animals!
I have a Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family in my laptop. I have read that updating your drivers helps. I checked and my drivers are up to date. However, the driver is from 2009. I'm running Windows 7 32bit. My current driver is 8.15.10.1930. If someone could please let me know if that is in fact the current driver, and their game is at least runnable, I would appreciate it. Thank you.
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS,
no fur issue and horses have a weird shine to them when put in a dark black (ot sure if this is meant to happen or its a glitch)
Said it's not recgonised on first play, however I am having no issues with gameplay at all, pets have fluff and everything. The graphic's are amazing !
I have an ATI Radeon... something or other... and I did have the no-fluff issue, but it has been fixed by updating my graphics card through the Dell website.
My game does lag occasionally, but as laptops are not really made for gaming, I definitely understand that. I currently have 3 expansion packs installed and another on the way, so... that's my B. LOL.
My video card is "ATI Radeon HD/4300/4500"series with 512 memory on the card. My Sim games have all played great. My pets all look great with fluff and have it set in the game on highest settings.
I'm playing with the Intel G33/31 Express Chipset Family.
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Any fixes? (Besides the obvious "You'll-have-to-replace-that.")
(I just wanna play Pets, and skate by until later this year when I update my whole processor and stuff.)
**EDIT**
I've been playing Base Game, World Adventures, High-end Loft Stuff, Fast Lane, Late Night, Outdoor Living and Town Life Stuff expansion packs just fine, until I installed Pets a week ago.
ATI Radeon™ HD 4530 Graphics with 512MB of dedicated video memory, ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4650 with 1GB of dedicated
video memory 64Mx16 DDR3 x 8 PCs
I'm not real techy so I don't know what part of that ^ is important sry
I have lots of issues that are or are most likely graphics related I don't even know if this meets the minimum can someone tell me?
I only have problems with the dogs and cats. Horses are fine.
First they were like this ^
Then I updated my graphics card and now they are even more distorted.
I am just wondering will this laptop graphic card before i buy it work ok with the sims 3 pets
Processor Intel® Core™ i5-2390T (2.7 to 3.5 GHz with Turbo Boost, 5 GT/s (DMI), 6 MB L3 cache)
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM 6 GB (1 x 2 GB, 1 x 4 GB)
- DDR3
Graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6550A with Avivo technology
Screen type WLED
Screen resolution 1920 x 1080
Screen size 23"
Screen features Touch-enabled diagonal Full HD widescreen BrightView WLED
Hard drive 2000 GB
- 7200 rpm
- SATA 3G
Optical disk drive Slim Tray Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
Memory card reader 6-in-1 memory card reader
USB Number of front panel USB ports: 2 x USB 3.0
Number of rear panel USB ports: 4
Modem/Ethernet Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
WiFi Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n
Audio interface 1 Beats stereo audio line out
1 Beats headphone/mic combo
1 Beats subwoofer out
Sound Onboard / Beats audio console
Webcam Yes
Keyboard & Mouse Wireless
Accessories included Wireless keyboard, Wireless optical mouse, Integrated webcam with built-in microphone, HP Win7 Media Center Remote Control
Software included Microsoft® Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word and Excel® only, with advertising. No PowerPoint® or Outlook®. Buy Office 2010 to use the full featured software.
HP TouchSmart 5.0 software suite; Beats Audio console; HP
LinkUp; HP Setup manager; HP Music; HP Games Console;
Cyberlink Power2Go; EasyBits Magic Desktop; Norton Online
Backup (30-day trial); Microsoft Internet Explorer; Adobe Reader;
Adobe Flash Player; Windows Live Essentials
Size 580 x 217 x 457 mm
Weight 11.7 kg
Comments
Here's a bit of extra info just incase:
Chip Type: Intel GMA 3000
Adapter String: Intel Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family
Deformed Pets
Intel(R) GMA 3100
unless thats part of the chip set family thing whatever
no fur issue and horses have a weird shine to them when put in a dark black (ot sure if this is meant to happen or its a glitch)
Said it's not recgonised on first play, however I am having no issues with gameplay at all, pets have fluff and everything. The graphic's are amazing !
still no fluff issue...
My game does lag occasionally, but as laptops are not really made for gaming, I definitely understand that. I currently have 3 expansion packs installed and another on the way, so... that's my B. LOL.
=[
******.
Any fixes? (Besides the obvious "You'll-have-to-replace-that.")
(I just wanna play Pets, and skate by until later this year when I update my whole processor and stuff.)
**EDIT**
I've been playing Base Game, World Adventures, High-end Loft Stuff, Fast Lane, Late Night, Outdoor Living and Town Life Stuff expansion packs just fine, until I installed Pets a week ago.
Try turning on advanced rendering, saving and exiting the game and then reopening it. That might fix the issue you're having.
video memory 64Mx16 DDR3 x 8 PCs
I'm not real techy so I don't know what part of that ^ is important sry
I have lots of issues that are or are most likely graphics related I don't even know if this meets the minimum can someone tell me?
I only have problems with the dogs and cats. Horses are fine.
First they were like this ^
Then I updated my graphics card and now they are even more distorted.
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Processor Intel® Core™ i5-2390T (2.7 to 3.5 GHz with Turbo Boost, 5 GT/s (DMI), 6 MB L3 cache)
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM 6 GB (1 x 2 GB, 1 x 4 GB)
- DDR3
Graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6550A with Avivo technology
Screen type WLED
Screen resolution 1920 x 1080
Screen size 23"
Screen features Touch-enabled diagonal Full HD widescreen BrightView WLED
Hard drive 2000 GB
- 7200 rpm
- SATA 3G
Optical disk drive Slim Tray Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
Memory card reader 6-in-1 memory card reader
USB Number of front panel USB ports: 2 x USB 3.0
Number of rear panel USB ports: 4
Modem/Ethernet Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
WiFi Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n
Audio interface 1 Beats stereo audio line out
1 Beats headphone/mic combo
1 Beats subwoofer out
Sound Onboard / Beats audio console
Webcam Yes
Keyboard & Mouse Wireless
Accessories included Wireless keyboard, Wireless optical mouse, Integrated webcam with built-in microphone, HP Win7 Media Center Remote Control
Software included Microsoft® Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word and Excel® only, with advertising. No PowerPoint® or Outlook®. Buy Office 2010 to use the full featured software.
HP TouchSmart 5.0 software suite; Beats Audio console; HP
LinkUp; HP Setup manager; HP Music; HP Games Console;
Cyberlink Power2Go; EasyBits Magic Desktop; Norton Online
Backup (30-day trial); Microsoft Internet Explorer; Adobe Reader;
Adobe Flash Player; Windows Live Essentials
Size 580 x 217 x 457 mm
Weight 11.7 kg
I have the exact same graphics card and the exact same problem.
I took screenshots
1) Open the start menu and search for "dxdiag"
2) Click on the program "dxdiag"
3) It should open a window like this:
4) At the top, there is an option called "Display", click it.
5) After its open look at the section "Device" and the name is your graphics card.
Hope I helped.