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The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection:

Increase Resolution Guide
By  Wee Albet  - July 20, 2014

Hi everyone! With the recent release of The Sims 2 Ultimate

Collection on Origin for owners of The Sims 2 Simmers have
been reporting issues with their resolution being stuck at
800×600. We have written a guide for you so that you can
increase the resolution to your native screen size.

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THIS GUIDE REQUIRES YOU TO EDIT GAME FILES – BACK UP

THESE FILES IN A SAFE PLACE BEFORE YOU EDIT ANYTHING!

STEP 1 – In order to change the resolution for your game you

will need to locate GraphicRules.sgr in C:\Program Files
(x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with
Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config.

BACK UP this file somewhere safe! Either to a USB stick

or in My Documents!!

STEP 2 – Open GraphicRules.sgr. (If it asks you to select a

program to open it with select NotePad)

The first thing that you are going to want to do is “tell” the
game to allow you to use higher settings. The Sims 2 often
forces the game to play in only low settings if it can’t recognise
a graphics card, which will be almost everyone now due to the
newer cards since The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden first released.

STEP 3 – Near the top of this file you will find the following
lines: “seti Low 1” “seti Medium 2” and “seti High 3”. These tell
the game which default mode to start in and in some cases it
will prevent you from changing options in the game. Change

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“seti Low 1” and “seti Medium 2” to “seti Low 3” “seti Medium

3”. This will tell the game to use the “high” settings within this
file.

You should now see it looking from this:

to it looking like this:

Now that you have told the game to let you use higher settings
it’s time to change those resolutions.

STEP 4 – Press Ctrl+F to open the Find box and enter this line
in (without any spaces and quotes) “ScreenModeResolution”
then click Find Next.

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This will take you to the required section. What you see will
look like this:

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This section is what allows your game to play in different

resolutions. Depending on your monitor resolution you may
want to have different settings. I play on a 1080×1920 monitor
so the settings I am demonstrating are based on that, if you
have higher or lower resolutions sizes, adjust it to your own
settings. From here you will want to edit “uintProp
maxResWidth” and “uintProp maxResHeight”. These two
options are what tells the game which resolution mode to play
in.
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STEP 5 – Edit “uintProp maxResWidth” to 1920 and “uintProp

maxResHeight” to 1080 in all four sections so you see
something that looks like this:

And that’s all you need to do in this file! Hit Save and exit the
file then open the game up. Once you have entered a
Neighborhood go to the Options then Graphics/Performance
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Options.

STEP 6 – You should now see that in the Screen Size settings
you have many more options! Select the desired size and hit
Apply Settings. You are now able to play in a larger screen size.
Have fun!

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