Here's a good explanation of what the settings do: If that doesn't help, try playing around with the Nvidia Control Panel settings. You could try playing in a clean boot to see whether it helps you may need to manually disable some Asus/Armoury processes in the Task Manager as well. There's nothing obvious in your dxdiag that would explain the issue, although it's possible your Asus software is having some effect. It's certainly possible that something about the game changed under the hood, and Windows 10 handles it differently than 8.1, but the sims aren't supposed to look different, and as far as I can remember, there haven't been any similar complaints to yours from players who didn't use custom content.

The fact that the skintones look the same in screenshots strongly suggests that their appearance is not a game issue but rather a software issue on your side or on the driver/OS side. You should be able to turn down the opacity of the blush. Thanks in advance for The makeup may be a game issue, perhaps the result of the update that introduced a number of makeup sliders a while back. If they did, then ill just give up on the DLCs and keep playing without updating, since i kept my old game installation too just in case the update went wrong (it usually goes wrong) Why is it important? I want to know if im just hallucinating, or if they really reworked these. Was this just adding +100 new skins, or did it also change existing ones? im using mainly pale/tan ones. I looked around and found out there was a skin tone update, but i didnt find information about the depth of this update. This just makes me really really sad :/ Their skintones and builds (muscle details) dont look like what they had, and all of their applied makeup looks really ugly, especially the blushes, intolerable. Since this update, all of my previously created sims dont look too great. I however decided to update yesterday, because i wanted to pick up loads of DLCs. I was playing The Sims 4 in offline mode for several years, since the updates were getting really annoying, and also critically affected my sims or gameplay which was really hard to accept.

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