TS3 L&P
Mirelly:
Quote from: kiki on 2008 December 18, 14:54:36
Quote from: Mirelly on 2008 December 18, 14:50:36
I was amused to see that they claim support for the ati x1950. This proves they have no idea -- based on practical experience -- what hardware the game will work on. Many incarnations of the x1950 are plagued with fan-speed problems (including there being no way to force changes to fan speed control with standard ATI overclocking tools). The card is unique in being unsupported by all other overclocking tools (that I could find). The only effective way I could find to fix the issue was to overwrite the card's BIOS with a 3rd party effort. Since failure in that task would mean I'd need to get another PCIe card to see what I was doing to flash it back, I decided to see how it would last. It ran for 8 weeks at 88°C (when idling ... my bad!) before it finally fried in its own stupidity.) Last time I buy without first Googling the product's name along with a variety of sample problem words, like overheating, crashing, failure, etc..
I have an x1950 from powercolor with the artic cooling fan (they mod the original fan off the radeon and put the arctic cooling one on to ship) - works like a charm and I've never had heating issues with it. I have 3 other case fans on that desktop, but my system with that GPU in it idles at approx 34°C in a non-air conditioned and poorly ventilated room.
Like I said. If only I'd bothered to Google before ordering, I could've got a decent version. The cost of modding the Sapphire card replacing the fan, and probably the BIOS too, exceeded my estimate of the value of doing so. The card had been installed for three weeks before I checked and found exactly how hot it was running.
nekonoai:
I have a dual core amd on my gaming rig... and a damn good video card, so I'm hoping that it will work.
However, I'd actually prefer a smaller town, so I'm wondering if we can choose the town's size, much like the way we can choose lot sizes. That would be cool. :D
talysman:
You can't even choose the town's name. And you can't choose where to place lots, only what to build on them. So no, you won't be able to choose the town's size, although you could manually kill off most of the sims and bulldoze most of the lots.
eevilcat:
Quote from: nekonoai on 2008 December 18, 16:58:58
However, I'd actually prefer a smaller town, so I'm wondering if we can choose the town's size, much like the way we can choose lot sizes. That would be cool. :D
Quote from: talysman on 2008 December 18, 21:11:02
You can't even choose the town's name. And you can't choose where to place lots, only what to build on them. So no, you won't be able to choose the town's size, although you could manually kill off most of the sims and bulldoze most of the lots.
No doubt you'll have to wait for them to release the separate editing tools EP to do any of this. I get the impression that EAxis initially want us to be playing their vision of TS3 rather than creating our own; why expand functionality when you can take it away and make the players pay to add it back in later?
zherok:
I doubt they'd do a whole tools EP, could definitely see it riding as a feature of some silly expansion full of content you may or may not want though. A tools only EP would involve doling out a ton of core features all at once, after all.
I wish they showed more gameplay shots, all the info they've released now seems like pure scripted machinima. You can't play the game at that angle. There seems to be a huge focus on what all the NPCs are doing, and near zero focus on what you can actually do.
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