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I'm playing my way thru all aspirations, collections, events, jobs, skills, etc. — starting from the base game and moving chronologically thru all packs (well, all packs owned by me, which is not ALL, but).

TIP FOR THIS SPECIFIC PROBLEM: If you're running The Sims 4 on a dual GPU system that is DX11-capable and should run DX11 by default as of the September 2024 patch but your game will not automatically start in DX11

TL;DR —

Go to your gaming GPU control panel and set global settings to default to your high performance processor.

Details (NVIDIA-specific) —

On a Windows 11 PC, open NVIDIA Control Panel. Chose the following option: 3D Settings > Global settings > High performance NVIDIA processor

It might also be required to do the following, if changing the global setting as above does not work alone: Windows System > Display > Graphics > The Sims 4 > Options > High performance

Background info —

Apparently, the game detects your system default GPU, rather than the GPU assigned to actually run The Sims 4.

So, if you have a dual graphics processor system, and your native GPU does not support DX11 / is not supported by The Sims 4 for DX11, even if your game is running on a high performance GPU, you will have to change your global default for the system to that supported GPU.

I play on a machine with an internal Intel UHD Graphics included with the Intel Core i7 processer and an integrated NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop.

Although I set the game to run using the NVIDIA GPU (Windows System, above); the game's config.log file confirmed that this was working as expected; and I confirmed updated drivers and even launched the game via the app NVIDIA GeForce Experience... the game still launched in DX9.

When I changed the global setting in the app NVIDIA Control Panel, the game launches in DX11, as expected.

Please feel free to share this anywhere you think it could be useful.

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