Graphical Weirdness in both neighborhood Screen and on lots... Part II
witch:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 August 25, 15:57:52
...although you'd think this wouldn't actually matter for the screenshot as YOU see it, since a pixel should be a pixel, and thus it should only look weird on their computer. Never figured out why it would do this.
Because screenshots are showing the image as it is displayed - that's what I figure anyway.
You can add additional weird resolutions for wide-screens so the sims game displays properly. I always forget how, but Hook or Jordi or someone always comes to my rescue when I forget. When I bought my laptop, all the screens I saw were wide and optimised for DVDs, because of course people wouldn't be buying computers to compute upon, they're bound to be buying lappies purely as a pricey DVD playing devices.
cassblonde:
Quote from: witch on 2007 August 25, 21:49:20
You can add additional weird resolutions for wide-screens so the sims game displays properly. I always forget how, but Hook or Jordi or someone always comes to my rescue when I forget.
Now there's something I could use! Someone tell me how...ever since I got this 21" widescreen my daughter has been telling me my Sims are fat!
Cass :)
B:
Quote from: cassblonde on 2007 August 25, 23:14:31
Quote from: witch on 2007 August 25, 21:49:20
You can add additional weird resolutions for wide-screens so the sims game displays properly. I always forget how, but Hook or Jordi or someone always comes to my rescue when I forget.
Now there's something I could use! Someone tell me how...ever since I got this 21" widescreen my daughter has been telling me my Sims are fat!
You'll be fine with 1680 x 1050 which should be an existing option. This is the native resolution for most 20 and 21 inch LCDs. Of course, you'll need a decent GPU to run at these settings.
witch:
It's not the laptop that's the problem, it's the sims game which doesn't offer all resolutions. I did actually save the advice last time I was given it. I think it was from Hook. It was most likely from Jordi. :)
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Ohm that's easy. Find your native resolution (1680 x 1050 for a 20" 16:10 monitor, 1920 x 1080 for a larger 16:9 monitor, or whatever).
Go to the last XP you have (Celebrations trumps Seasons).
Open \TSData\Res\Config\Graphics Rules.sgr in a text editor
Look for the string "option ScreenModeResolution" and change the Setting $High as follows:
setting $High
uintProp maxResWidth 1680
uintProp maxResHeight 1050
uintProp defaultResWidth 1680
uintProp defaultResHeight 1050
Use your native monitor values of course.
Next time you load the game the resolution is available.
Make sure you either have the original CD, or a backup of the file, should EAMaxis come out with a patch.
PS That last bit is because Eaxis expects a clean Graphics Rules.sgr file for patching.
jrd:
Rather looks like my kind of typos (ohm rather than oh,) :p
Works fine for me. I'm playing in my monitor's native res of 1680x1050.
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