ATI Radeon video card(s) causing Sims 3 Hair and folage major havoc
Dr. Richard Cranium
I have two copies (registered at ea) and my two game machines
have an 1GB DDR5 Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4890 XOC , Ruby Edition
and a DIAMOND ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 PCIE 2048MB GDDR5 Video Card.
I've been having video problems with the foliage being a big square graphics
block with day-glo brilliant fuzz coloring.
My characters have hair that looks like it is always transparent.
So what you see only in the normal intensity is the skull cap Maxis defaults
to or something.
For some reason the braided hair and the side pony tails that hang over the
shoulders in front worked okay.
I've gone backwards in driver release numbers. No help. Last night I up
graded to the
ATI 9.8's since the release notes do discuss a Sims 3 menu fix issue.
upon install completion the video display was back to 640x480
(i haven't seen ATI wipe the 1900x1200 16:10 screen resolution in many
moons) I was hopeful.
Then after the subsequent reboot, I fired off the Sims 3.
the sims 3 was now 640x480. I went into options to adjust back to 1900x1200
16:10.
Maxis popped me up a window and wanted a decision about "edge scrolling" on
or off.
I clicked on "on".
The Sims 3 game came up just fine.
Every hair was in place on every character and displayed properly. Each and
every tree displayed in the proper resolution.
cool beans !!
I played for a while (couple of hours) then saved out the game.
Rebooted, and went back into the Sims 3. There was the hair and tree
corruption !! drat !
So I went back into options and clicked "off" the edge scrolling. poof !
Game back to displaying hair and trees correctly.
go figure. I don't really care about edge scrolling since Final Fantasy XI
doesn't really use it.
SO I figure I just need to toggle between "edge scrolling" on if it is off,
and off if it is on. I could most likely just toggle twice to where edge
scrolling is back on.
Strangest problem I've seen ATI have with their video cards. I would suggest
it you have these kinds of ATI video problems then just try toggling edge
scrolling on/off on earlier versions on the ATI video drivers. ( i am
certainly not going to install a previous version to check this out LOL).
This last night after reading the various forums about ATI and Sims 3 around
the known internet galaxy.
I thought the problem was ATI's implementation of Direct X 10 and some
cosmic screen rendering at 1900x1200.
Hope this helps,
** no fate **
dracman
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Cari (MS-MVP)
installed the service packs for Sims3? (There are more details in the Sims
newsgroup (not the Sims2 group and there is no group for Sims3!).
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Dr. Richard Cranium
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Hello me,
Well last night try as i might, i could not get the corruption to go away
(as mentioned above) using the "edge scroll" checkbox - drat EVEN with
pushing on the checkbox with my finger (some might say.. that was a poke).
LOL. Guess i do not have a touch screen.
Okay, so I found that THIS TIME Mr. ATI, or Mr. Maxis -- changing (toggling)
my screen from default to 60hz (either direction) would then clear up all my
graphics ! go figure.
I am really just glad something works !
** no fate **
dracman
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Dr. Richard Cranium
"Cari (MS-MVP)" <newsg...@coribright.com> wrote in message
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> It's more of a problem with Sims3 than with ATI. Have you downloaded and
> installed the service packs for Sims3? (There are more details in the
> Sims newsgroup (not the Sims2 group and there is no group for Sims3!).
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
> http://www.coribright.com/windows
I have the newest patch from Sims3 and the newest ATI drivers 9 point 8's.
I do not discount even the - HP w2408h 24-inch Vivid Color Widescreen Flat
Panel Monitor
- 1920 x 1200 @ 60Hz resolution, 0.282 mm dot pitch
could be at fault.
The HP monitor reports that it can support 1900x1200x75 hz and the ATI
driver/video card reports it can support 59 or 60hz at that resolution.
I think that with "edge scrolling" on, the Sims 3 game is setting the ATI
card up to render even larger screens like 2500x1200 for scrolling left and
right.. Unless the ATI card is that fast and just stamps out each 1900x1200
screen as the mouse cursor pans.
I think HD and direct X 10 + might be a moving target these days, and ATI
and The Sims3 are out of sync for the requirements. Which is what you said.
As long as I can correct the screen corruption in the Maxis options panel -
I am good with that.
Thanks for jumping in with help for me.
** no fate **
dracman
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