I'm thinking of giving the Sims 3 another try after the disappointment of today's TS4 announcement. I was wondering if there is anyway to improve them graphics at all like a mod or something?
Are you talking about THESE graphics issues? If you are then the only two things that we have found to help so far is the color banding option in Reshade (which can take some of the detail away at times) or @Emily4331 has some tweaks if you just want to take pretty pictures, but I think she said they are too intense for game play. https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17630421/#Comment_17630421
I'm not sure what I'm talking about. When I installed it last time everything appeared jagged on the edges. In TS4 there is a setting that solves this called Edge Smoothing but I can't seem to find an option like this in TS3.
I went to see what the announcement was. EA still doesn't get it. Most simmers don't want to do missions and/or gain points and/or puzzles, etc., etc. We want creativity options. Sigh. Maybe they are trying to pull in regular gamers, but they won't stay. They'll finish the tasks and go back to their other games. And this is from someone who has been addicted to Star Wars forever.
I went to see what the announcement was. EA still doesn't get it. Most simmers don't want to do missions and/or gain points and/or puzzles, etc., etc. We want creativity options. Sigh. Maybe they are trying to pull in regular gamers, but they won't stay. They'll finish the tasks and go back to their other games. And this is from someone who has been addicted to Star Wars forever.
Yeah I love the original Star Wars movies but it just doesn't belong in the sims period.
Try playing in 1080p if you're not already, that helps with aliasing (or "jagged edges")
You could also try force graphics settings through your GPU drivers
I'm unfamiliar with Nvidia but they'll obviously have similar options, but for me I force enhanced anti-aliasing through RadeonPro, force v-sync, anisotropic optimization, texture filtering set to ultra etc.
You won't get magical results, there's only so much driver side enhancements can do and not all of them work but it definitely improves noticeably more for me.
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Yeah I love the original Star Wars movies but it just doesn't belong in the sims period.
I still get jagged edges around mine and I have my settings high.I don't think I've ever found a way to get rid of it 100%
I like star wars well enough.But its not a sims thing in my opinion.
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You could also try force graphics settings through your GPU drivers
I'm unfamiliar with Nvidia but they'll obviously have similar options, but for me I force enhanced anti-aliasing through RadeonPro, force v-sync, anisotropic optimization, texture filtering set to ultra etc.
You won't get magical results, there's only so much driver side enhancements can do and not all of them work but it definitely improves noticeably more for me.
On top of that you can hunt for HQ CC/Skins.