#sims 4 psa

PSA - How to get HQ textures for CC objects.

In a recent patch, EA capped texture sizes making CC with HQ textures look blurry, but you can fix it to get your crispy textures back!

You can either download my HQ Mod (updated recently to include this fix), or fix it yourself by editing the graphicsrules.sgr - instructions are under the cut.

The technical details - EA changed the ‘TextureSizeThreshold’ for objects to 1024, which means the max texture size that cc can use is 1024x1024, which makes cc objects with 2k or even 4k textures look noticeably blurry ingame, compared to s4s or older patches ingame.

How to fix it - go to ‘\Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin’, and open ‘GraphicsRules.sgr’ in your text editor of choice. Then, find the line ‘prop $ConfigGroup TextureSizeThreshold  1024′ in the ‘setting $High’ section of ‘option ObjectQuality’, it should be around line 336. Then, just change it to 4096. 

Thanks again EA for creating unnecessary problems, thanks to @littledica​ for helping me and thanks to @hephaestionsims​ for the beautiful objects in the before/afters.

* Note the before/afters also include the 4k shadow edit included in my hq mod.