What's required for Sims detail set to highest?
Saikatsu:
Quote from: witch on 2009 July 09, 11:50:07
Theres a thread around here that talks about NVidia cards. Apparently the game is not managing the anisotropic filtering right. There are instructions to set your cards. Search on that word, that's how I found it.
I had to turn on my anisotropic settings to be managed by the Catalyst AI, not by the application.
I had a bit of confusion when getting that set up with my card (9500GT I think, can't check now), I could only get it to configure the LAUNCHER instead of the actual game exe. Hitting Add and selecting TS3.exe didn't add a new entry, just kept the launcher selected. The remove button for the launcher was grayed out, so I couldn't even try to remove it. I changed the anisotropic filtering for the launcher to see if that even did anything, and it seemed to actually be affecting the game despite having the wrong exe selected. Textures didn't look like crap when viewed from a short distance away, and the hideous seams along model edges went away. (They also showed up in World of Warcraft, they're actually really hard to catch a proper image of and look a LOT worse than this example.)
Then when I ran the game again later, the hideousness was back. :\ No idea what I need to do to make it stick, nor any way to get the correct exe selected in my card's control panel. (WoW, on the other hand, has retained its non-crappiness. No more holes in things at the center of the mesh.)
Silverdrake:
I have an ancient NVIDIA 6600 and have no problem setting sim detail to high. I have no idea what anisotropic filtering is, but I went into my NVIDIA driver settings and made sure that my settings for Quality override game settings. It's possible that my game runs slower, but it seems fine to me.
edalbformat:
I managed to set up the game to Very High Detail Sim in my 8600 GT and I suppose that it was just a question of Video RAM (I have 512, my friend has 256), so I suppose that it just a question of upgrading her graphic card.
As to RAM, I don't think that feeding up the computer with a lot of extra RAM will help that much. I have only 2GB RAM and my friend has 4GB. My computer has better performance than hers.
We have both Code page set for 4096.
Setting the game to Very High Detail helped a lot cause now I can at least identify those puddings, before I could not see a difference between two Sims.
Anyway it is not helping much when Sims are outdoors. I can have a better image when they are indoors but as soon as they open the door, a lot of shadows mainly in their mouth, make them look like they are permanent vomiting (or secreting chocolate)
I'll check this monster word suggested to see if I can get more sauce to my bbq (arrgh! I'm vegetarian!). As to new drivers, my graphic card is pretty new and anyway I'm intended to get newer ones as soon as my pocket can afford it. RAM and gcards are quite expensive over here and normally you cannot get a computer on a normal shop with higher specifications once there are no programs for regular users that requires that much graphics and RAM. I use to buy in specialized computer shops and even there you have to request an upgrade at the moment of shopping cause not even them have anything higher, ready made. It makes the computer twice or three times more expensive. For example, my basic computer last bought had an original price of 9.000 our money. After upgrading before bringing it home first time, I got a final price of 14000. This is unacceptable for normal buyers. Not even companies accept such increase.
Regular special offers shows to be very low speed RAM or anything that you will sure regret first time you use the machine.
I have no more patience to assemble computers self.
ZiggyDoodle:
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Do you think it's the RAM? I plan on upgrading it soon to 4 GB, It's weird though, in gameplay it's fine. I played yesterday for probably 3 hours with no Crash to desktop and no lagging or freezing. So why would it crash in CAS? I've noticed a lot of the time is when I'm messing with the create a style function!
I'm running with 4GB RAM and an ATI X850XT card - game and graphics (set to high) are fine except that I get a CTD after I've used CAS to modify clothing or appearance. I discovered that if I immediately save after exiting CAS, no crash.
That said, I allowed the 12-year old to play TS3 under a different account on my computer. CTD. I saw two warning popups claiming that a script running under Internet Explorer had stopped running (this appears only in the secondary account). WTF??? EAxis up to no good in the background no doubt, because I disconnect my DSL modem before starting up the game and never use IE.
The crashes continued each time she tried to play until I changed the firewall setting by not closing it down completely, but setting it to block all Internet activity. That's worked for her.
My firewall is set so that no EAxis program has permission to access the Internet. Since it appears to continue trying, I'll have to experiment with the ZA kill command.
ZiggyDoodle:
I've never used the launcher. The secondary account also uses the .exe file. Or it's supposed to.
Guess I'll better go cootie hunting tonight...
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