Very impatient dates bug
McNum:
Yeah, I just don't get why Developers don't speed limit their games more often on PC. CPU power more or less doubles each year. With Sims 2 probably having a 5 year strategy, it should actually be prepared to run into a CPU 32 times faster than the 800MHz one the base game needs.
If too much power can cause a a miscount, it really should have been caught in debugging. Aways inseret impossibly high numbers into the system at least once. To see when it breaks. Not if, when.
danicast:
I have a dual core and I use speed 3 and nothing wrong happens.
Must be something else. Vista, I bet. I use XP.
jsalemi:
Quote from: danicast on 2008 March 12, 07:23:34
I have a dual core and I use speed 3 and nothing wrong happens.
Must be something else. Vista, I bet. I use XP.
I also use XP Pro. It's not that (in my case, any way) anything wrong happens on speed 3 -- it's just that it's SO FAST. I played the game for years on a 3GHz Pentium 4, so I was pretty familiar with how fast the game went on 3. So after moving up to a 3GHz Core 2 Duo, I immediately noticed the difference.
For example (times are not exact, because I didn't officially benchmark them) -- on the old machine, an overnight sleep period for the sim on automatic-3 would take, say 10 minutes of real time, and was slow enough that the minute changes were obvious. I used to have enough time to read a forum message or two on my other machine, knowing I wouldn't miss when the sim woke up. On the new machine, the same period takes less that 1/2 that time, the minute changes whiz by, and the sim is awake before I have time to even read the thread titles. :)
kuronue:
I'm fairly certain this is a game glitch - as long as I can remember, pressing 3 when waiting for a cab makes me stand them up. I think speeding up the game speed disproportionately speeds up the waiting-date timer. I do have a dual core but I run XP so it's not Vista causing this.
SlickCee:
I am almost sure it is a game glitch. The same thing be happening to me too. I also have it on speed 3 when the dates are supposedly "stood up."
It isn't Vista, because even when I had XP I had this problem. Even before I had hacks I had to deal with this problem. But, ever since I got my new computer I rarely had it on speed 3, so it didn't happen as frequently. Now with this new computer, everything is on speed 3 (Yeah, I like my game to go lightning fast). It is all adding up now.
It got to the point where I just gave up on the going out on dates things and just did them at home. Nothing boils my blood more then when I go through all them loading times for no reason AND have an angry Sim who kicks over my garbage can and causes me to have roaches >:(
I would've expected EAxis to have made a fix for this by now, but I guess not :P ???
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