FAQ HOW TO - Make a Video Cards.sgr

STEP 1. Open up \My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Logs\ your <computername>-config-log.txt

=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): Intel® HD Graphics Family
Name (database): Intel® HD Graphics Family <<NOT FOUND IN DATABASE!>> - IF you have this message you need to fix your Video Cards.sgr file.
Vendor: Intel
Chipset: Vendor: 8086, Device: 0a16, Board: 397817aa, Chipset: 000b

STEP 2. Open up your Video Cards.sgr for editing. (Make a copy of it first)

ULTIMATE COLLECTION:
Open \Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config\Video Cards.sgr
DVD:
Open \Program Files (x86)\EA\The Sims 2 - <your most current expansion pack>\TSData\Res\Config\Video Cards.sgr

Look for your Vendor - each vendor has a section that starts with their name and accceptable vendor ids.

# ID to video card mappings
# maps the vendor id to vendor name,
# maps the card id to card name
#

#############################################################################
vendor "ATI" 0x1002 - This is the Vendor Name and Vendor ID. The Vendor ID will match the Vendor number in your config log.txt
card 0x6810 "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series" - This is the Device number and the Name (Driver) from the config-log.txt
card 0x3152 "Radeon X300 Mobility (M24)"
card 0x3E50 "Radeon X600/X550 Series"
card 0x3E70 "Radeon X600/X550 Series Secondary"
card 0x4136 "Radeon IGP 320"

When you have found your Vendor add the following line:
card 0x<your device id from the config-log.txt> "<Your Name (Driver) from your config-log.txt>"

Save your file.

Load your Game, and close it again.
Check your -config-log.txt - does it still have the message <<NOT FOUND IN DATABASE!>> ?
Yes - check what you've done, you haven't done it correctly.
No - Congratulations, it worked!

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EXAMPLE ON HOW TO DO IT.

Notes:
The easiest and simplest way to get it right every time, is to copy and paste it from the config-log.txt.
Open up your config-log.txt and your Video Cards.sgr next to each other. Then it's easy to cut and paste.


Config Log,txt =
=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): Intel® HD Graphics Family
Name (database): Intel® HD Graphics Family <<NOT FOUND IN DATABASE!>>
Vendor: Intel
Chipset: Vendor: 8086, Device: 0a16, Board: 397817aa, Chipset: 000b

Open Video Cards.sgr and look for Intel

#############################################################################

vendor "Intel" 0x8086

Add this line:
card 0x0a16 "Intel® HD Graphics Family"
card 0x1616 "Intel® HD Graphics 5500"
card 0x0116 "Intel® HD Graphics 3000"
card 0x0412 "Intel® HD Graphics 4600"
card 0x0106 "Intel® HD Graphics Family"
card 0x2582 "Intel® 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family"
card 0x1132 "815 (82815 Chipset Graphics Controller)"
card 0x1240 "752 (82752 AGP Graphics Accelerator)"
card 0x2562 "845 (82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device)"
card 0x2572 "865 (82865G Integrated Graphics Device)"
card 0x3577 "830 (82830 Chipset Graphics Controller)"
card 0x3582 "855 (82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device)"
card 0x7121 "810 (82810 Chipset Graphics Controller)"
card 0x7123 "810 (82810 DC-100 Chipset Graphics Controller)"
card 0x7125 "810e (82810E DC-133 Chipset Graphics Controller)"
card 0x7126 "810 (82810 DC-133 System and Graphics Controller)"
card 0x7127 "810 (82810 Chipset Graphics Controller)"
card 0x7128 "810 (82810-M DC-100 System and Graphics Controller)"
card 0x712a "810 (82810-M DC-133 System and Graphics Controller)"
card 0x7800 "740 (82740 (i740) AGP Graphics Accelerator)"
card 0x2782 "915 (82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller"
card 0x2592 "915 Mobile"
card 0x2792 "915 Mobile"
card 0x2772 "945 (82945G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller)"
card 0x2776 "945 (82945G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller)"
card 0x27A2 "945 Mobile"
card 0x27A6 "945 Mobile"
card 0x29A2 "GMA 3000 (G965 Express Chipset Family)"
end

SAVE.