Graphics Settings
eevilcat:
Quote from: jolrei on 2007 November 28, 14:26:19
What sort of graphics card did you get? I play with an onboard ATI Radeon X300 card (old and obsolete now, I'm told). I always play at 1024x768 with edge smoothing on. I reduce shadows to medium, because I don't care about shadows and it appears to make no difference to the look of the game onscreen anyway. Considering this, your resolution phobia may be just that - try 1024x768 and see what happens. The worst case is that you'll have to switch back to some other resolution. As this is a standard resolution, it does not distort the look of sims (i.e. they don't look like tall thin matchstick people).
Looks like we're running with the same graphics card - is it in an old Dell Inspiron by any chance? I also run at 1024x768 and with effects, object/texture detail on high and snow enabled. Reflections are off (unless needed for a story-line), I don't bother displaying neighbouring lots and objects are drawn on all floors. I run with way too much custom content but check that it isn't to resource hungry (poly/texture-wise) and usually stick to a max 3x3 lot size. I've never tried running with edge smoothing on, so I'm curious as to what your others graphics settings are for comparison purposes.
simsfreq:
Quote from: nil on 2007 December 01, 18:31:39
Quote from: simsfreq on 2007 November 28, 15:02:09
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Currently I have an NVidia Geforce 4 440 and have been told that it's not ideal, BUT it is in the supported graphics cards list, which my mum's computer's graphics card wasn't, so it's a start for skint me. Oh and edge smoothing has never appeared, ever. It's always greyed out. It has the latest drivers, which again I'm told are quite old. I considered using third-party drivers for it but my OH seemed wary about me doing that and he's a compy technician so I decided to trust him rather than the internet.
Yeah, it might have been supported by running some courses badly tuned fallback functions.
Er... what? ???
jolrei:
Quote from: eevilcat on 2007 December 02, 08:40:39
Looks like we're running with the same graphics card - is it in an old Dell Inspiron by any chance? I also run at 1024x768 and with effects, object/texture detail on high and snow enabled. Reflections are off (unless needed for a story-line), I don't bother displaying neighbouring lots and objects are drawn on all floors. I run with way too much custom content but check that it isn't to resource hungry (poly/texture-wise) and usually stick to a max 3x3 lot size. I've never tried running with edge smoothing on, so I'm curious as to what your others graphics settings are for comparison purposes.
I built my own Intel P4 rig, after I fried a P3 (not playing Sims), and bought an ASUS motherboard with the X300 onboard. I believe (too lazy to go dig out my manuals and spec sheets) that it has at least 512 meg of its own memory on a PCI bus, but will share memory with RAM if necessary. I'm actually rather surprised my system does anything much with Sims at all since I only have 1Gig RAM loaded at present (must do upgrade soon). I don't run Seasons, so I don't have to worry about fish and leaves. The only setting that isn't at max is shadows, which I have turned down to medium. Doing that solved my lag problem, and I have not bothered to change any settings since. The game does lag if I use the really big lots (5x5 and bigger and load them down with flowers, shrubs, trees and fencing. Consequently, my sims tend to live in non-landscaped deserts.
Lyra:
I've never understood the whole "you need more than xGB RAM". I've used to run Seasons on 640MB RAM and it ran fine. The only lag I had was when I had 12+ Sims on a 5x5 lot.
Now I'm running Bon Voyage on 640MB RAM and it takes a bit longer to load, but still bugger all in the way of lag.
It might be because I only have 400MB of CC, but... meh, I'm not complaining.
Ness:
I think that's the key to it all - understand the limitations of your system, stick within them and you can enjoy your game so much more.
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