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Back then 32 bit systems were common and XP had a hard memory limit in place, Geforce 8800 GTX and Radeon 3870X2 were the top end cards of the time with PCI Express 2.0.Ĭould you imagine the developers having the mind to future proof TS3 with the likes of Threadripper CPU's and RTX 3000 cards 13 years ago? i doubt the developers could of even imagined such a thing. TS3 is a game that was launched in 2009 (it was even delayed a few months at the time), meaning the developers probably had specifications set in stone from mid-2007 to early 2008. This is the problem that developers face, they can't know what the future will hold for operating systems and graphics cards, so they can only work with what they got and support almost usually goes as far as that, that is unless the developer and or publisher is okay expanding support to future proof their product a bit, but even then there is only so much they can do. Some players get a little confused between "graphics card not detected," which is a system configuration issue that will prevent the game from running and "graphics card not recognized," which should have surprisingly little impact on game performance. It doesn't always catch all of the variations on device id numbers among every single model, though it's worth a try for those who want the convenience.
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There's also a third party utility out there that attempts to do the sgr edits automatically, based on its own database of known cards and I believe its developer is keeping it up to date as newer cards are released to market. The newer and stronger cards still get used as they should or as best they can be, they just pick up a less than ideal generic set of default settings and sometimes, though not always, impose a texture memory override that is unnecessary but easy to fix as well. But the good news is that (a) this isn't difficult to fix with some guidance and card specific edits to two sgr files in the base game's program files and (b) formal gpu recognition isn't usually necessary anyway. There is no version of TS3 currently that grants formal recognition to any video cards released after 2013 or so.