Hi!! I need help with a new laptop i am thinking of buying, here is the link:
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Bravo-15-7-4800H-RX5500M/dp/B088ZQMGVS
Ok so my current one works just fine but the colors are all messed up and pixelated becasue of the issue with Nvidia so i am looking for a new one with an amd card instead and i am going to try and sell my current one. I dont know if i am being hasty but this issue is not new so i dont know if they will adress it. Would you recommend i buy a new one or am i just being insane? lol Anyway, Is this one good enough to run sims 3 and 4 with many packs and store content and on max settings? I will keep it in mind until i decide what to do.
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The other hardware is fine, or more than fine, for TS3. I would hesitate to buy from that particular seller, given its ratings, but the same laptop is usually available on plenty of other sites.
However, it's not clear that the colors in Sims 3 would look better on an AMD card. There's obviously a problem with Nvidia cards, but I haven't seen screenshots from AMD GPUs in a while, certainly not since people collectively settled on a definition of what changed with the colors of Sims 3 back in December. It's a lot of money to spend for a laptop that might be exactly the same as the one you have now.
Maybe someone will show up with a fully updated Windows and a new enough AMD card to give a definitive answer. Personally, I'd wait until that happened to buy anything. But yes, if it comes to that, this particular laptop should be a good choice for Sims 3.
Just one last thing i want to ask. I have Nvidia 1660 currently, how does it compare to The RX 5500M? I dont mind if the Nvidia card is slightly better.
By DDU, I take it the Nvidia person meant Display Driver Uninstaller. That's not going to help unless there's a problem with your existing graphics driver—the point is to clean uninstall a potentially corrupt driver and install a fresh copy. The issues with Sims 3 are so widespread though that it's highly unlikely every affected player has a corrupt GPU driver that also wouldn't be fixed by a regular update. Still, if you want to try, there's not much harm. Here's a guide to using DDU, in case it helps:
https://crinrict.com/blog/2019/02/clean-re-install-of-graphics-drivers-with-display-driver-uninstaller-ddu.html
Yeah, i also didnt feel like my drivers were the issue since so many others have this problem too, but i didnt want to discourage the agent by suggesting that. I linked them to the thread a member here created for this issue in Nvidia boards so hopefully that leads to somthing too. Thanks for such fast and detailed responses!
An AMD 5600M is between the 1660 ti Max-Q and Mobile cards in performance, although it's closer to the Mobile. So it would actually be an upgrade over your current card, provided the other hardware performs up to expectations. But the 5600M isn't that common yet—the only one I can remember seeing actually on sale somewhere is this Dell:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-g5-15-6-fhd-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-5-8gb-ram-amd-radeon-rx-5600m-256gb-ssd-60hz-red-print-backlit-keyboard-grey/6409419.p?skuId=6409419
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-g5-15-6-gaming-laptop-144hz-amd-ryzen-7-8gb-memory-amd-radeon-rx-5600m-512gb-solid-state-drive-grey/6409421.p?skuId=6409421
That may change in the coming months, although Nvidia cards are still going to be a lot more common in laptops.
The reason I bring this up though is that Sims 3 can't use all the power of high-end graphics cards, which is why something like memory speed might matter. It doesn't help to have 6 GB VRAM rather than 4 if the game can only use a fraction of that; the absolute speed is then likely more important. However, a 1660 ti has the same VRAM speed as a 5600M, so I wouldn't worry about that. The 5600M's speed (not its memory speed, the clock rate of the card itself) is also within the range of the Nvidia 1650, which, while slower than a 1660 ti, is still more than fast enough for Sims 3.
All this is to say... probably not? I don't think there would be any noticeable difference in the time it took to load objects unless you had a totally overstuffed lot that even the 1660 ti needed 30 seconds or so to load. Even then, you might need a stopwatch to notice. Since I haven't seen anyone play Sims 3 on this particular laptop though, I don't want to promise you it would be exactly the same, or near enough. No one uses Sims 3 in benchmarks these days, and I don't know anyone with this particular card, let alone someone who'd let me borrow their laptop.
Anyway, the 5600M is so fast, I can't imagine it bogging down in Sims 3, even if it's a couple percentage points slower in certain situations. The limiting factors would probably still be the game engine and the VRAM limit, not the card itself.