I am trying to follow the tutorial (linked below) that will stop my game's water and terrain from looking so chunky and ugly, and the very first step in the post is to check if my laptop's graphics card is supported. I looked on the ASUS site for the card, and it is listed as 'NVIDIA® GeForce® 900 Series'. When I looked on the MTS system reqs/graphics card list, my card was not there. This laptop is a fairly new model, so I am sure that is why it is not listed, but I just want to know if I will be able to follow the tutorial and upgrade my game without trouble...

Here's the tutorial I am referring to: http://modthesims.info/t/479610

My computer: https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/X540LA/

A more specific look at my comp via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...0?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hope you can help! Thanks!

The reason you couldn't find "900 Series" on any lists is that that's not a graphics card - it's a series of graphics cards, much like "iPhone" is a series while "iPhone 6S" is an actual phone. The Amazon page also contradicts the info you got from ASUS, saying that your laptop uses integrated graphics, i.e., it doesn't have a graphics card.

You'll need to check the actual model of your graphics card, as per Game Help:System Specs^wiki. Then we can figure out whether it's supported.

Got it! I think...?

Yep, that's integrated Intel HD 5500 graphics, and it should be fine for TS2.

Given that the ASUS docs suggested you had an actual GeForce graphics card as well, it's possible that the laptop has dual graphics, so it can switch between using the graphics card (better performance but shorter battery life) and the integrated graphics (poorer performance but longer battery life). If so, you should have a nVidia control panel icon in your system tray which will give you an option to switch to "high performance" graphics or something like that for TS2, which may fix the texture problems on its own.

If you do have switchable graphics, but still have texture problems in TS2, you'll want to add the graphics card's details to the .sgr files, not the integrated graphics. Dxdiag doesn't reliably tell you those details, but CPU-Z does.

I will definitely look into this, thank you! Searched my control panel and computer for 'Nvidia' but nothing came up.

My game looks pretty damn good now. Now sure if I should bug you some more or make another thread, but I need a bit more help - since my graphics card is apparently capable of gameplay, how do I stop the screen from flickering so much?

Try toggling the "Smooth Edges" setting in the ingame graphics options - if it's on, turn it all the way off; if it's off, turn it all the way on.

That area is greyed out. Can't edit it.

Okay, instead of making a new thread I'll bump this as I have a similar Intel chip and I was wondering whether this laptop I have will be able to play Sims 2 Ultimate Collection without melting like butter:


As you can see, I have Intel i3-5005U which is a bit weaker processor compared to OP's (as far as I understand). When I opened my Sims 2 UC game, I had the same problems as OP (hay terrain and solid blue water), but I decided not to go further than the neighborhood screen. Nysha has already said that HD 5500 should work with Sims 2, but I'm not quite convinced as Intel chips have proven to be absolute crap with Sims 2 in the past.

If it turns out that it does work, what sort of settings should I be playing on (the game set them all on medium by default)? Finally, if I'm interested in removing the solid water and hay grass from my game (which I am), should I use this tutorial or some other technique?