Graphics Card Help? - AMD Radeon RX 470

[artillerydusk]

Hello ,

I recently built myself a gaming pc so I could play the sims 3 at the highest settings, but the game doesn't want to read my graphics card. I've followed the steps on the stickied thread in the Technical Help forum, and watched countless videos on how to do it but it still says "[Found: 0, Matched: 0]". My card is "card 0x67df "Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics".  I place it under the Radeon 5xxxx series in the GraphicsCards, is that wrong? I also match it after the Radeon 5xxx series in the GraphicsRules. There are no cards similar to mine, so I have no clue how I would write the match in the GraphicsRules. Right now I have it written as "or match("${cardName}", "RX 470*")"

(If you're gonna tell me to follow the sticky thread steps again, please don't reply because I did // sorry).

[Flynn Arrowstarr]

Hello ,

I recently built myself a gaming pc so I could play the sims 3 at the highest settings, but the game doesn't want to read my graphics card. I've followed the steps on the stickied thread in the Technical Help forum, and watched countless videos on how to do it but it still says "[Found: 0, Matched: 0]". My card is "card 0x67df "Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics".  I place it under the Radeon 5xxxx series in the GraphicsCards, is that wrong? I also match it after the Radeon 5xxx series in the GraphicsRules. There are no cards similar to mine, so I have no clue how I would write the match in the GraphicsRules. Right now I have it written as "or match("${cardName}", "RX 470*")"

(If you're gonna tell me to follow the sticky thread steps again, please don't reply because I did // sorry).

Hi, artillarydusk. Welcome to the forums.

I think I see what went wrong and how to fix it. You have the right idea. Just change your line to read:

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or match("${cardName}", "*RX 470*")
and it should work properly.

Hope this helps and happy Simming!

Flynn

[artillerydusk]

Hello ,

I recently built myself a gaming pc so I could play the sims 3 at the highest settings, but the game doesn't want to read my graphics card. I've followed the steps on the stickied thread in the Technical Help forum, and watched countless videos on how to do it but it still says "[Found: 0, Matched: 0]". My card is "card 0x67df "Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics".  I place it under the Radeon 5xxxx series in the GraphicsCards, is that wrong? I also match it after the Radeon 5xxx series in the GraphicsRules. There are no cards similar to mine, so I have no clue how I would write the match in the GraphicsRules. Right now I have it written as "or match("${cardName}", "RX 470*")"

(If you're gonna tell me to follow the sticky thread steps again, please don't reply because I did // sorry).

Hi, artillarydusk. Welcome to the forums.

I think I see what went wrong and how to fix it. You have the right idea. Just change your line to read:

Code: [Select]

or match("${cardName}", "*RX 470*")
and it should work properly.

Hope this helps and happy Simming!

Flynn

Thanks! My line is fixed now. For some reason, sims 3 still doesn't want to read my card though D: I really don't know what to do anymore.

[Flynn Arrowstarr]

Let me give editing the files a try. It may take a little while as I'm in the middle of another project, but I'll try and have something for you to import into your game tonight.

Flynn

[artillerydusk]

Okay thanks! You can take your time, I'm a very patient person.

[Flynn Arrowstarr]

Can you tell me what the card shows up as in the DeviceConfig.log file? e.g AMD Radeon RX 470?

Thanks.

Flynn

[artillerydusk]

Yeah
This is exactly what shows up in the DeviceConfig.log file

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Name (driver):   Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics
Name (database): Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics [Found: 0, Matched: 0]
Vendor:          ATI
Chipset:         Vendor: 1002, Device: 67df, Board: e349174b, Chipset: 00cf

[Flynn Arrowstarr]

Give these a try (see attached zip file). Unzip and copy to your Sims 3\Game\Bin folder and try running the game. It should *fingers crossed* detect your graphics card.

Hope this helps and happy Simming!

Flynn

[artillerydusk]

Give these a try (see attached zip file). Unzip and copy to your Sims 3\Game\Bin folder and try running the game. It should *fingers crossed* detect your graphics card.

Hope this helps and happy Simming!

Flynn

I can't thank you enough! The game finally detected my card I can't wait to play !

[Flynn Arrowstarr]

Awesome! Glad I could help.

Flynn