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Known issues with videocards,
EA found a lot of issues with videocards themselves
Offcourse they blame the videocards, but it's just a fact that EA keeps making absurd demandings for pc's to play the game.
Here we provid you a list of those issues and how to solve it.
(Source: De Sims Helpfiles)
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Brand |
Type |
Problem |
Solution |
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ATI
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Radeon 7000 serie
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The waterline flickers in neighborhood. |
Driver |
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Radeon 7000 serie, 8000 serie en 9000
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Damaged textures and random colorbars |
Driver |
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Radeon 7200, 7500
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Strange lighteffects |
lower the resolution of the game |
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Radeon 7500
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Create family, strange floor when creating a baby
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Driver |
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Radeon 9000 serie
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Movies of special evenst are blur. Texture is missing. Sims and objects are damaged. Horizontal lines on Sims
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Driver |
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Radeon 9500
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Image of neighborhood deforms
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Lower smooth edges |
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Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
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Sims and objects are to light, to withe or are uneven highlighted |
Driver |
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Radeon 9550XL
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Can't keep up with refresh rate. Image flickers.
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Lower the details to Low or turn them off |
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X1800 Crossfire
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Building and buying icons are damaged, random flashing shadows
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Turn off Crossfire |
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GMA 900, 945, 950, X3000
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Floortiles are flashing, especialy with snow |
Turn details to Low or turn them off |
| NVIDIA Geforce |
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4000 serie
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Interfacepanel disapears or turns blue
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Driver |
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FX serie
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Strange pillows at the TeaTimeTable
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Driver |
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FX 5000
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Strange shadows in poolwater, shadowline
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Windows 98 problem |
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FX 5200
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There are missing some triangles in Sim
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Driver |
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FX 5500
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Poolcorners are blue |
Driver |
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FX 5600
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Flashing triangles on Sims |
Lower Lighting to Middlel
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6100, 6200, 6600, 6800, 7300, 7600,7800,PCX5900
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Image flasghing when heavy rain takes place |
Driver |
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6600GT en 6800GT
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Sommige struiken zijn zwart, schaduwen in zwembad niet goed
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Windows 98 problem |
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6800 SLI
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Introductionmovie got stuck |
Press button to skip movie and turn of SLI
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6800 Ultra SLI
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Neighborhoodscreen apears during play and when zooming
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Turn off SLI |
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7800 GTX SLI
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During loading of Plesure-house screen becomes black a couple of times. Falls off and starts over again
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Turn off SLI |
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MX 420
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Deformed grafics, game gets stuck |
Windows Me en 98 problem
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General |
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Download latest Driver and turn off ("Hyper Threading"*) |
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Chrome S18, S27
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You don't see trees, but do see shadows. Fruittrees with snow on them have angular protrusions
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Driver |
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S18 Pro
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Snow don't stay on trees |
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