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ATI Radeon video card(s) causing Sims 3 Hair and folage major havoc
I've been playing the Sims 3 since it was released.
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 http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm http://www.smokeypoint.com/walleweb/wall-E.html .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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ATI Radeon video card(s) causing Sims 3 Hair and folage major havoc
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 "Dr. Richard Cranium" wrote in message . .. I've been playing the Sims 3 since it was released. 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 http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm http://www.smokeypoint.com/walleweb/wall-E.html .................................................. .............. Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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ATI Radeon video card(s) causing Sims 3 Hair and folage major havoc
"Dr. Richard Cranium" wrote in message . .. I've been playing the Sims 3 since it was released. 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 http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm http://www.smokeypoint.com/walleweb/wall-E.html 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 .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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ATI Radeon video card(s) causing Sims 3 Hair and folage major havoc
"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... 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 .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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ATI Radeon video card(s) causing Sims 3 Hair and folage major havoc
On Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:28:12 PM UTC-4, Dr. Richard Cranium wrote:
I've been playing the Sims 3 since it was released. 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 http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm http://www.smokeypoint.com/walleweb/wall-E.html .................................................. .............. Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- This problem my very well be in your computer, and not your graphics card. I use the ATI Raedon 5570 graphics card in one PC and the ATI Raedon 3000 graphics card in this, my second, back up computer. My graphics are beautiful. All of the on screen imagery is sharp, and crystal clear. Even the tiniest details of the game, such as those little bees that flit from flower to flower in my flowerbed, the gentle sway of the trees, and the subtle movement of the water in ponds and swimming pools are visible and a pleasure to watch. It can't be ATI's graphics cards, because I have these wonderful effects even with the humble 3000 series graphics card.You should get your computer a thorough check up. |
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