Hi! First off, thank you for all your hard work improving/fixing the Sims 3. It is my favorite game, and I love that modders like you are still putting so much time, effort and love into it to keep it alive! Secondly, I have a question about your GraphicsRules file. My game looks fantastic with it! But it runs choppy on my computer, and it says my graphics card isn't recognized in the main menu. Is there a way I can add my graphics card into your file? I would love to have it in my game!
Hi! No problem! I made the file purely based on my computer alone, so I'm not really too sure what real performance impact each setting has on lower end PCs. IIRC the graphics card detection portion comes from the GraphicsCards.sgr file not the rules, but I could be entirely wrong, there's a few premade ones or generators out there, just replace the rules with mine after (if you want). I'd recommend opening up the file and changing ForceHighLODObjects to 0 first of all as that's kind of the big one, and if that doesn't fix it, turning it back to 1 and dropping these, though It depends on where the bottleneck is: TextureSizeThreshold 1024 or 2048 RttSizeSmall 256 (these don't really matter) RttSizeLarge 512 TrilinearEnabled false (leave aniso) ComplexPostProcessEnabled 0 WaterReflectionDetail 1 or 2 etc, there's probably a lot you can change. I wouldn't change: RenderSimLODDistances or RenderSimTextureSizes as they cause stutter (same with forcehigh tho thats less so), though I guess it could slow things down 🤔? There's other settings like shadow ones but they look so bad reduced... Anyway, I'm working on something that should hopefully allow for editing some of these (and most others) settings ingame, which should make testing things a little easier. Should hopefully be done within the next couple of days... maybe.
