Everything is quite small

[Isabella]

So I recently got a MacBook pro, but my game is quite weird on it. Everything is small. I've taken a screenshot of it http://i43.tinypic.com/71qpf8.png
i don't know why it's doing this, but changing the screen size in settings does not solve the problem. I installed and reinstalled it earlier, because some of the expansions weren't working and i noticed it looked quite small back then, but didn't really notice how bad it was, so i doubt reinstalling the game + expansions will change anything. I already uninstalled my newest one - university - and it didn't change anything. Help?

[cathyknits]

Nothing in your screenshot looks unusual to me - do things not change properly when you zoom in and out?

[berninicaco3]

ditto-- what's wrong?
are you just talking about resolution?  That will, in a fashion, make things bigger or smaller-- but generally the highest resolution will be the best looking.  A lower resolution might look zoomed in and 'bigger,' if that's what you prefer.

If you're unable to change resolution... I think under video drivers, there is a default setting to allow individual programs to set resolutions.  So that when I watch a non-widescreen movie, it can auto adjust.  But I vaguely recall that there was a way to not allow programs to set their own resolutions, forcing it into 1080p or whatever you set it to.  Such that when, for example, I played Riven (old old game), it forced it to 1080p and was quite tiny.  That shouldn't be the default setting; but I think it can be set-- which might prevent sims3 from changing the resolution to what you want.

There's something else called overscan/underscan.  That would not show up for us on a screenshot!  What would happen, is that the projected image would not reach the borders of the screen itself, leaving a wide black border around a smaller image (if it were underscanned). 

Is that what's happening?

[grimsoul]

You could try changing the screen size in game under the options.
I play the game in a smaller screen size than I have my desktop set at to makes things a little bigger and easier to see in game.
The only downside with game set at a different size than the desktop is you can't use the Print Screen button to take a screen shot. You will just get a solid black picture. But the in game screen capture still works fine.