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NateTheL0ser
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#1 Old 16th Feb 2025 at 7:59 PM

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Default Legacy Collection Refuses To Acknowledge GPU In Database After Editing VideoCards.sgr
I have been experiencing random crashing in the Legacy Re-Release, often without even a popup and the game just closes. I found a tutorial for fixing this involving adding my graphics card to VideoCards.sgr manually, but it's still not working. The Config log still says "not found in database."

Attachments was refusing to upload my sgr files even if they were zipped so I changed them to txt in my documents folder (the sgr files are still in their correct folders with correct extensions in the config files, so don't worry!)... In fact, attaching the files to this post may have been almost harder than adding my card.
Attached files:
File Type: txt  MSI-config-log.txt (9.4 KB, 29 downloads)
File Type: txt  Video Cards.sgr.txt (26.0 KB, 31 downloads)
File Type: txt  Graphics Rules.sgr.txt (14.0 KB, 30 downloads)
File Type: zip  DxDiag.zip (23.2 KB, 11 downloads)
Blueybre
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#2 Old 3rd Aug 2025 at 5:48 PM
I only just saw this through a Google search and thought I'd share my knowledge.

In the old Graphics Rules.sgr before the Legacy re-release, there were these three additional lines, among others:
Code: 
# set some config variables based on a card table and vendor specific rules
# sets isCardFound, cardVendor, and cardName
include "Video Cards.sgr"

Because these lines are now missing (in particular the last one - the other lines are just comments), the game does not look into the Video Cards.sgr anymore and thus always returns the "not found in database" message.

Now, there might have been a reason these lines were removed. Checking for a compatible video card when 99% of today's computers are well above the recommended specs for Sims 2 seems a bit... redundant.
Nonetheless, if you still have those crashing issues, you can try putting these lines back into the file anyway. In the Ultimate Collection's Graphics Rules.sgr, the lines are located below
Code: 
seti cpuLevelUnsupported 0

which in Legacy's Graphics Rules.sgr is line 36.
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