Closed Sims 2 and Graphics Cards - the fixes.

I have the sims 2 UC from Origin and can't get my screen out of 800x600..when I found your solution I did it and it worked..all the sizes were back and everything was working great at first, but my game started crashing and I didn't know why..So I did a "repair" through Origin and what it did was remove that file I made and put back the original one and now my graphics are back to 800x600 and everything looks horrible and pixelated again...How can I fix this and not have my game crashing on me...my graphics card is Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 running Win 7..can you help me?

@LadyUcci
Hi - you need to pop up your config-log.txt so I can see what's happening. Also I need to know a bit more information about when it is crashing.

The graphic rules card that you put in didn't cause the crashing. Crashing can occur for many reasons, so we'll work through it together and sort it out.

well to be honest it crashes at random times, build mode, live mode, pretty much whenever it wants to I guess..but I wish I hadn't done the repair on it first before coming here cause now my log.txt won't list when or why it crashed..I don't have the graphic rules card in now cause after I did the repair and it took it away I stop playing for the day cause I was mad..but anyways here is the txt file. Thank you for any and all help, I appreciate it very much

Loads EA Logo, then the introductory screen of the Sims
  NIKKIS-PC-config-log.txt (Size: 9.66 KB / Downloads: 278)
  NIKKIS-PC-config-log.txt (Size: 9.66 KB / Downloads: 278) however stops after that if i skip intro then i get blue screen. There is no load up screen or music. I have tried all helps and tips however still not working please help!!!

Hi all.

I just installed my SSD drive with a fresh copy of Windows 7 and installed all my Sims 2 disk again and now Sims 2 sees what card I have and I don't have to do any thing to fix it other than having to put shadows down to med.

Nvidia GTX 660 with the new driver 340.52.

Before this driver came out I had to fix the SGR but not this time.

I've been tweeking my graphics rules, but I still can't seem to get the flickering to go away or the smooth edges to un-grey out so I can make changes. I tried using the tool to see if it would have worked, but then the game wouldn't start because of a direct x error. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Attached File(s)

  Graphics Rules.zip (Size: 7.09 KB / Downloads: 330)
  D-PC-config-log.txt (Size: 10.4 KB / Downloads: 292)

So I just got a new computer and was having the usual Windows 8.1 problems of flickering and bad terrain. Well I fixed those but now I have black oxes under my sims. Now I know how to fix this, for it happened when I first started the game. So I turned down my settings to medium. But now, my settings are set to off and I'm still getting black boxes, which wernt there until I fixed the terrain and flickering. Please help.

Hello, I have recently installed The Sims 2 on my new ACER Aspire V5 and I have a problem. Whenever I use INTEL graphics card to run the game, it works fine except for ugly graphics. Unfortunately when I run it from NVIDIA Geforce 850M graphics card, the game shows E_INVALIDARG error and turns off.

I have already tried compatibility settings and using Graphics Rules Maker, but I cannot get TS2 to work anyway. I have also checked this very thread for answers, but none of them did work. My both graphics card and CPU seems to be just about fine to run TS2 on highest settings. It runs Tomb Raider 2013 on high.

Here's my config-log.

  Caesum_lap-config-log.txt (Size: 10.2 KB / Downloads: 288)

Do you know what can I do? I'm writing a story in TS2 and I'd love to finish it.

@MikoTheBrony
I need two things from you to work out what's happening -

I need a screenshot of what's actually happening, and I need a copy of your config-log.txt from your My documents game folder.

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