Graphics Quality Help?
tragedymcneil:
So I recently got this brand new computer, installed all my sims games, and then i tried to play, game works fine
except the graphics quality is so low, I have already tinkered with all the graphic options available and still cannot get the quality to be any better
They appear to be blurred or stretched or squished, it looks almost like sims 1 quality instead of sims 2.
My graphics card is a Nvidia geforce 9800 GT (maybe GTX not sure)
I have 6 gbs of ram and a 3.0ghz processor
So I don't think its a memory or speed issue..
and Yes..the graphics card is installed and I have tinkered with its settings too and cannot get it right.
Please help as I cannot play the sims 2 with sims 1 quality >.>
Tenshii~Akari:
How much shared memory (video RAM) does the graphics card have? That plays a factor also in graphics performance. :angel:
tragedymcneil:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9800gt_us.html
look under specifications
tragedymcneil:
The games not the least bit slow and it dosent jitter its absolutely everything i could ever want, except the graphics suck. Its odd because the graphics look great for every other game or program, its frakin wonderful everywhere else, amazing quality everywhere else, but in the sims 2...its not as grand as my last computer which only had 0.5 gbs of ram a 2.0 ghz processor and a basic ati radeon graphics card.
Tenshii~Akari:
The specifications on the site and how much you have on your computer can be completely different. Trust me, at one point I was thinking I had a 256MB card when the whole time I had a 128MB one. Check the size of your card on your actual computer to be absolutely sure. ;)
(Easiest way: Go to Start => Run, type in dxdiag in the "Open" box and click OK, then the DirectX Diagnostics box will pop up. Click on the third tab labeled Display, and check the upper left-hand box in the window for your graphics card specs.) :angel:
One more question: What OS are you currently on? XP or Vista? If you have the latter, it's definitely going to affect how much allotted memory there is available to run the game (as it's been said that it requires 1GB of memory alone just to run it), and if there's not enough free memory, graphics problems will most likely occur while playing Sims 2.
The best suggestion I can offer is to make sure your graphics drivers and DirectX are up-to-date, and that you've disabled any running background tasks through the Task Manager's "Processes" list that have your user name in them (with the exception of "explorer.exe" and "taskmgr.exe", then exit out of the task manager) to free up available virtual memory for your system. ;)
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