Did the patch really kill my BV, or was it something I did?
ShortyBoo:
Quote from: Blueblood on 2008 February 07, 13:09:28
Haha, I expected something like that. I can't afford a real graphics card at the moment, so it's out of the question. Either way, I don't think a shiny graphics card will help fix my BV installation/uninstallation issues. I'm not sure anything can un-implode my BV. xD
Video cards aren't that expensive. The card I currently have was like $600 when I first got it, but now it costs under $200 and it's still considered to be a good card. More RAM would probably help since BV requires at least 1 GB to run and that's without any other EPs installed. Of course, your processor needs help as well, but those are kind of pricey. I think I spent around $600 last summer to buy my new ASUS motherboard/AMD dual core processor combo. Getting all three of those things would help a lot, but at least if nothing else, you do need a video card and some more RAM.
Dea:
I have almost the same exact computer. Your sound card is probably incompatible and thats why music stutters and also why you game probably lags too. Despite the other crappy specs, if I disable the sound drivers I dont have any lag. I have even left my game on for 3 days and it played fine. Many people with better computers cant even do that.
Unfortunately mine is a slim case tower so its completely not upgradeable anymore, except RAM which when I get my other computer working more RAM is going into it. Right now its getting another videocard.
eta: when I first got TS2 I only had 256MB of RAM :o
Blueblood:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 February 07, 16:22:52
Am I going cross-eyed, or do you really only have 510 (512) MB RAM? If so, how the hell did you get it to run up to this point?
Like Jelenedra, I've been running everything pretty okay with only 512 MB. Hotel lots are really the only thing too unbearable to play. I had a level ten restaurant business going for a while there. It was laggy but still faired better than the smallest hotel lot. o.O
Quote from: ShortyBoo on 2008 February 07, 20:42:16
Video cards aren't that expensive. The card I currently have was like $600 when I first got it, but now it costs under $200 and it's still considered to be a good card. More RAM would probably help since BV requires at least 1 GB to run and that's without any other EPs installed. Of course, your processor needs help as well, but those are kind of pricey. I think I spent around $600 last summer to buy my new ASUS motherboard/AMD dual core processor combo. Getting all three of those things would help a lot, but at least if nothing else, you do need a video card and some more RAM.
I don't really want to bring up my personal life, but pretty much everything is not affordable right now. And before anyone asks or wonders why I have a computer and internet if I'm so poor, my computer was bought four years ago when things were a bit different in my life, and my mom has an online store. It's all we have to keep us going and, well, it hasn't quite worked out.
Quote from: Dea on 2008 February 07, 23:43:49
I have almost the same exact computer. Your sound card is probably incompatible and thats why music stutters and also why you game probably lags too. Despite the other crappy specs, if I disable the sound drivers I dont have any lag. I have even left my game on for 3 days and it played fine. Many people with better computers cant even do that.
Unfortunately mine is a slim case tower so its completely not upgradeable anymore, except RAM which when I get my other computer working more RAM is going into it. Right now its getting another videocard.
eta: when I first got TS2 I only had 256MB of RAM :o
Ah, I probably should have been clearer about the music stutter and lag bit. Normally everything runs pretty smoothly, all crappy specs beside. It's just that since BV sometimes (or more like a lot of times) when I enter buy or build mode the music freaks out and sounds like a broken record. Then it gets all laggy and just trying to place one item or whatever becomes quite difficult. The music stutter and lag hasn't occurred during regular gameplay though.
I thought I had seen someone post here with a similar issue and someone recommended they download the patch. That's how the whole patch fiasco came about. I thought it'd fix my problem, but it really made everything worse. xD
Also, when I first got the TS2 I had 52 MB of RAM. :-X I could play a very small house with one Sim in it for maybe an hour or so before it crashed. xD
Kyna:
Quote from: Blueblood on 2008 February 08, 02:59:11
I don't really want to bring up my personal life, but pretty much everything is not affordable right now. And before anyone asks or wonders why I have a computer and internet if I'm so poor, my computer was bought four years ago when things were a bit different in my life, and my mom has an online store. It's all we have to keep us going and, well, it hasn't quite worked out.
I bought my computer with my long service leave payout around 4 years ago, when I gave up my job due to health reasons. I am now on a disability pension - yet I managed to put in a video card, a second hard drive, more RAM and replace my monitor this year.
My local computer store is a one-man store, not part of a chain. He often sells second hand parts that he acquires when he upgrades computers for customers. My other source of computer parts is from friends and family when they upgrade or as birthday gifts. My daughter upgraded her monitor (to a second hand one from the same computer store), and I purchased her old one. She also gave me the second hard drive for my birthday.
Check out your local computer stores and see if they have any second hand parts that would work in your computer. Check the classifieds in your local newspapers, often you can find cheap parts being sold by people who upgraded their computers. And it wouldn't hurt to ask around among your friends to see if any of them have old parts they no longer need and make them an offer. Make sure before your buy that any parts you buy second-hand are compatible with your motherboard and power supply.
pixiejuice:
Hey, I didn't think anybody in the world besides me was still on that computer :)
I was on 640 MB RAM up until a few months ago, with all EPs. This computer is maxed out at a gig though, which I have now, and honestly, that little upgrade hardly made any difference at all.
Quote from: Blueblood on 2008 February 08, 02:59:11
Ah, I probably should have been clearer about the music stutter and lag bit. Normally everything runs pretty smoothly, all crappy specs beside. It's just that since BV sometimes (or more like a lot of times) when I enter buy or build mode the music freaks out and sounds like a broken record. Then it gets all laggy and just trying to place one item or whatever becomes quite difficult. The music stutter and lag hasn't occurred during regular gameplay though.
My game does the stuttering thing too and it is not patched. Mine is usually during gameplay though.
I also get the "application has crashed and will now terminate" crash pretty rarely, and always have rarely since the beginning. Maybe you've just been lucky not to see it so far? I don't know. Speaking for myself, my computer is 5 years old now and I'm grateful the thing even boots up, let alone runs a game as demanding as Sims 2. Sorry I don't have any more insight for you.
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