Hello all,

I just recently purchased a new computer with an AMD Radeon 270x graphics card, unfortunately my game does not recognize the card. I found the tutorial on SimsWiki to change my GraphicsCards.sgr and GraphicsRules.sgr files in C:The Sims 3/Game/Bin and got my device config file to Found: 1 and Matched: 1 as shown below.

Number: 0
Name (driver): AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Name (database): AMD Radeon R9 270 Series [Found: 1, Matched: 1]
Vendor: ATI

Unfortunately my default settings in game are still quite low, specifically for textures and sim details.

In the GraphicsCards.sgr file I changed 0x682f "AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series" to my card 0x6810 "AMD Radeon R9 270 Series" and then changed the GraphicsRules.sgr file to "*R9 2??*") from "*HD 7??0*").

My drivers are up to date.

What am I missing here?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thank you,

Pink

Try "*R9 290?*") and let us know if that works.

The card you bought is still very new and The Sims hasn't been updated yet to support it.

I tried "*R9 290?*" to no avail. I still get default settings that are quite dismal.

Is it the card drivers that are perhaps the problem as GrahpicsCards.sgr has no other R9 or R7 series cards, only HD series ones.

Crinrict also has a help page about this problem:
http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2013/0...-your-card.html

I do not think my game is using the on board graphics as without editing the two .sgr files the device config log shows my dedicated graphics card. I am not entirely sure how to be 100% positive of this as Crinirct's tutorial says to "right click and choose switchable graphics." I do not have this option, not when I right click the icon, no when I right click the desktop, and I cannot find anything relating to switchable graphics in the Catalyst Control Center via the search.

Up, sorry. It seems that in the case of the card being new, Crinrict is linking back to the tutorial here at MTS2. My bad. Did you check that one, by the way?

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=487073

Post your current information from the deviceconfig.log per the example shown below:
=== Rating info ===
GPU: 5 GPU Memory: 4 CPU: 4 RAM: 4 CPU Speed: 3612 Threading: 3
Adjusted CPU: 4416 RAM: 16282 Adjusted RAM: 15770 Cores: 8
=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Name (database): AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series [Found: 1, Matched: 1]

varpunen: Yes, I've read through that tutorial, which got me as far as I have gotten. It's just the last portion of the tutorial which states I should click "restore to defaults" in game and should see a difference, unfortunately, there is no difference even after deleting my options.ini and deviceconfig.log. The defaults are the same, even though the game no longer gives a warning saying that my GPU is not recognized.

=== Rating info ===
GPU: 5 GPU Memory: 1 CPU: 4 RAM: 4 CPU Speed: 3400 Threading: 3
Adjusted CPU: 4134 RAM: 16298 Adjusted RAM: 15786 Cores: 4
=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Name (database): AMD Radeon R9 270 Series [Found: 1, Matched: 1]

Oops sorry! I though you had a 290!

Try "*R9 270?*")

Or try "*R9 2???*")

I already tried "*R9 270?*") and "*R9 2???*"). I get the exact same results with either.

I have solved the problem with my R9 270x and the game.

1st step
Include the GPU in the Graphics database.
Edit the file: Video Cards.sgr
Include the line: card 0x6811 "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"

Where 0x6811 is the ID of my board.
If your board has a different ID, use them instead.


2nd step
Change the max resolution that the game can run.
That could be the problem that you are dealing because if your monitor has a higher resolution than the max resolution configured in the game you will fallback to the base resolution 800x600.
Edit the file: Graphics Rules.sgr
Search the entry: option ScreenModeResolution
Below this entry you will see the folowing code:

setting $Low
uintProp maxResWidth 800
uintProp maxResHeight 600
uintProp defaultResWidth 800
uintProp defaultResHeight 600

setting $MediumButDefaultLow
uintProp maxResWidth 1280
uintProp maxResHeight 1024
uintProp defaultResWidth 800
uintProp defaultResHeight 600

setting $Medium
uintProp maxResWidth 1280
uintProp maxResHeight 1024
uintProp defaultResWidth 1024
uintProp defaultResHeight 768

setting $High
uintProp maxResWidth 1600
uintProp maxResHeight 1200
uintProp defaultResWidth 1024
uintProp defaultResHeight 768



Change all the settings maxResWidth and maxResHeight with you monitor resolution.


Optional:

You can change the variables Low, Medium, High in the begging of this file to 3
This will configure all the 3 settings to use the High configuration.

That´s it!