The Sims 2 replaces them with flashing purple textures, T-poses, and so on. "Purple Soup" (or "Pink Flashing") occurs when The Sims 2 fails to upload and display textures, models, poses, and other assets to the system hardware. Screenshots of "Crashes and Purple Soup" courtesy of s4rts4 on But in the end, graphically stock The Sims 2 + DXVK's stability is unmatched by past approaches. Heavily modded games unfortunately tend to have issues. The performance profile will be different. There will be misconfiguration and you might not even know. These did not exist when the Sims 2 came out, were a glimmer in 2010, and now have been on sale at Costco for some years. Throwing out Microsoft's DirectX 9 implementation for DXVK's DirectX 9 implementation with its Video memory limit emulation in running The Sims 2 is extremely effective at avoiding purple soup, crashes, and other rendering errors on modern hardware and software without harmful system-wide tweaks from past approaches on Windows.Įxamples of modern hardware and software include Windows 10 1803+, video cards with more than 2GB of VRAM such as the RTX 2080, Vulkan support, and etc. So, for our case for The Sims 2, Microsoft DirectX 9 also has issues. While the DXVK's Direct3D9 renderer was originally made for use by Linux users wishing to run DirectX 9 games on Linux experiencing issues with an older implementation of DirectX 9, DXVK is also compatible with Windows. Vulkan is a modern open-source graphics API that is actively supported by modern graphics cards and operating systems vendors. Introduction DXVK (Direct3D to Vulkan) is an open-source software that turns an existing application's DirectX rendering calls into Vulkan rendering calls.
Disregards Video Card driver update advice.Force Texture Memory settings kinda odd.
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NOTE FROM AUTHOR, (): I am no longer updating this guide and I have stepped away from the community and this guide. Stop Sims 2 Purple Soup or Pink Flashing Crashes on Windows 10 and Modern Hardware with DXVK