Ye Olde Video Card Question
Simsbaby:
Oh, wow, I didn't even notice those points. lulz. GDDR3 is faster than DDR2, but I'm not sure by how much. DVI(white video connector) should also produce a better picture than VGA(Normally blue connector).
Lord Darcy:
Quote from: akatonbo on 2008 May 22, 19:02:40
ETA: The bottom of the BBS thread has people stating (within the last 2 days or so) that upgrading drivers fixed the problem.
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=cbc06e3a3b9b316ab112190df9995b76&directoryID=21&startRow=51&openItemID=item.21,root.1,item.61,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23
Thanks for the head up. I almost gave up hope that it would ever be fixed.
akatonbo:
My hardware cluelessness tends to mean that I am VERY careful about making sure that all the funny words I don't know the meanings of match exactly between "what someone tells me to buy and/or what matches what's already in there" and "what I am actually about to buy". Especially since I once managed to miss some fairly important funny word that meant I had to return and re-order some RAM I bought for a computer I was upgrading at my then-workplace. (I was instructed to do some data entry on the middle of the store machine instead of the front desk machine, while bossman worked up front, for the first time. Sat down at it, started to work, and inside of five minutes was running two different spyware scanners and a virus scanner because it was so slow; when they found nothing I realized that it was running Windows XP with 128MB of RAM. My boss kindly permitted me to order another 256MB for my own sanity.)
(And noticing the DVI connector is important too, since the hard drive story involved... well, basically, I bought an IDE drive thinking that was pretty safe, because what else would I need? Got it home, opened up my box, and discovered the existence of SATA. Whoops! Apparently my monitor death was not such a bad thing, since it got me looking at other upgrades, and the dead one did NOT have a DVI connector; I just checked.)
Thanks to both of you for the advice. Assuming no one gives me any dire warnings in the near future about Dell not knowing their ass from their elbow when it comes to what my power supply can handle, I think I'll go with the XT.
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