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Black box shadows glitch no longer present in my game
icmnfrsh
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I was looking around online to see if anyone had any real fixes for the black box shadows. Out of curiosity, I set shadows back to High in the game, and I was surprised to see this:
For reference, I'm running Windows 10 with the latest graphics drivers for my laptop. I have a GeForce GT 635M with integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. I run The Sims 2 using the integrated graphics because the GeForce is unnecessary (and the game sees it as "low end", disabling some fancy graphics effects).
I guess NVIDIA got rid of some DirectX 9.0c side effects that were present in previous drivers?
I'm just happy my game looks pretty again.
For reference, I'm running Windows 10 with the latest graphics drivers for my laptop. I have a GeForce GT 635M with integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. I run The Sims 2 using the integrated graphics because the GeForce is unnecessary (and the game sees it as "low end", disabling some fancy graphics effects).
I guess NVIDIA got rid of some DirectX 9.0c side effects that were present in previous drivers?
I'm just happy my game looks pretty again.
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Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
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I had a laptop with Windows 7, dual graphics (one was NVidia) that didn't have a problem with the shadows indoors. It was so Awesome. . . but my new laptop has the problem. It's Windows 10 now, was 8.1, but I've tried many things.
*To add... the reason I have a new laptop is because the graphics card (integrated) kinda messes up and now flutters on that year old Laptop. I bought it to run Win7 and for TS2... Just to let you know, yours might run hot- Mine did and I have a cooling pad but I wasn't careful enough.
I had thought I set the game to run on the NVidia card but it must have changed on an update or something.
I can check the temperatures using Afterburner, but I can't imagine modern Intel cards struggling with a game from 2004. My laptop doesn't really feel hot when I play, and it doesn't suffer from performance issues. I'll be careful though.
Sorry to hear that you still have the problem. I don't know what exactly causes it, but maybe it'll go away for everyone eventually. I hope so.
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
I didn't monitor it like I should have because it was an old game... and I did play some TS3 on it so that could have been the culprit. I mostly played TS2 because it looked best on it. XD