Sims 3 Video Card Not Recognized

[Profile Name]

I installed Sims 3 and when it loaded up I got this message instantly.

And I Quote

{Your video card was not found in our database. Your graphics settings have been set as high as possible, but you may wish to reduce them if you are experiencing poor performance.}

[HiFive]

Oof, I remember having this problem some years ago. It was a bit tricky trying to edit the files exactly right so the game would recognize my newer card. I didn't keep track of what I did back then, but I found these three places, just now, that have some information on the subject:

https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=26753.0

http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Getting_new_graphics_cards_recognized_by_the_game

https://forums.thesims.com/EN_US/discussion/867305/sims-3-doesnt-recognize-graphics-card-solved

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Any GPU that was made after 2013 or 2014, so like GeForce 800 and Radeon 200 series or later, won't be recognized by the game because EA is dumb. You actually don't really need to get the game to recognize your GPU unless you're getting piss poor performance or you have a very weak card, otherwise applying other kind of performance tweaks and changing the video settings would be more effective.

Like for me, I have a GTX 1050 3GB and I manage to get over 250fps at FHD max settings after optimizing my game with the fixes and mods. But before I did those things I think my fps wasn't even that much lower, probably like at 230fps highest. What the performance tweaks and essential mods did do was massively increase my lowest and average fps, thereby reducing stuttering and lag spikes along with drastically improving the frame time. Of course it's a terrible idea to run fps that high for Sims 3 so I did cap it further in Nvidia control panel to like 150fps.

The worst fps I would get is only at night or if there's too many Sims in 1 place, though I'd hardly consider the mid 70s to be bad considering how laggy this game can get. Though usually it just stays on average in the low to mid 100s and ofc dropping below that at night when moving around. Sadly, I can't get vsync to work in Nvidia panel no matter what I do and the screen tearing gets even worse if I capped the fps close to or at 60.

[ModerNertum]

Originally posted by Sanity:

I installed Sims 3 and when it loaded up I got this message instantly.

And I Quote

{Your video card was not found in our database. Your graphics settings have been set as high as possible, but you may wish to reduce them if you are experiencing poor performance.}

It means your card is way too new for sims 3 and you have to make the game recongnize it using outside tools