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5th Feb 2018 at 3:53 AM
Last edited by Freelala : 7th Feb 2018 at
3:52 AM.
This user has the following games installed:
Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life
Cannot change screen resolution
After not playing my game for a few weeks, I went to pull it up today and noticed something was a bit wonky. I could not adjust the screen resolution above 800x600. This was a problem I'd never encountered before, and the game had always worked fine up until this point. Here is a screen shot for reference.
"Well this is funny," I thought. "Better head on over to the FAQs to see what I can learn about that there wonky graphics setting." So, I did. To make a long story short, I went through
the Game Problem FAQ as well as
this help page and
this help page. Nothing I could find in Game Help fixed the problem, so I uninstalled everything and began the long and daunting task of reinstalling. So far, I have base game, University, and Nightlife installed. After installing University, I was able to successfully change the resolution after removing/testing without user files as detailed in steps 5 and 6 in the Game Help FAQ. However, after installing Nightlife, the resolution reverted back to 800x600, and I was unable to repeat the success from before. I deleted the cache files before booting up, and being as this is a fresh install, I know the problem isn't from something I've downloaded.
Please help! I want my pretty, high-resolution graphics back.
Edit: Appears to be solved after a) reinstalling the game and b) doing some handwaving with my graphics card driver. At any rate, my game is working again.
Edit again: It's back to not letting me change resolution again. My drivers are all updated and working. I don't know what to do.
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