Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
Lorelei:
No BSODs yet, but prolonged play on a laptop with an NVidia card may cause jittering (audio) or flickering video. Worst case scenario, laptop freezes. We're talking HOURS and HOURS of non-stop play (including building, buying, collecting, spawning, skillinating, redecorating) with Firefox and IRC and other stuff going on in the background, though.
Game jitters a lot less if I don't use ESC to skip the opening video advert for the game. (I have no idea if it would work better in fullscreen, but my default screen resolution would possibly make the text unreadable and images stretched, and alt-tab would likely cause issues as well. Who knows? Something to mess about with, later.)
Other culprits are "memory leak plugger" tools like WinMemOpt. If I forget to turn it off, it freezes the game temporarily and sometimes jitters occur after.
Tacuitacitum:
I've just gone through CCC and turned catalyst AI off, and everything down to "performance" rather than balanced/quality. All my options in Sims 3 are down to minumum as well. Game still puts on 99% load and shoots me into the 70s-80s temps.
If I switch tasks, but still have Sims 3 in the background (eg, I bring CCC or speedfan to the front, but not actually obscuring the Sims 3 window so it's still rendering, just not the active program) my load goes down to about ~20%. This way I can watch the game (as it will still play, rather than pause) but I can't actually play it (since clicking anywhere in it makes it the active window, even if I have an always-on-top window open). I don't know if that's standard behaviour - it seems slightly bizarre.
I'll try reinstalling the drivers without CCC now, and then if there's no improvement, some different drivers.
Morriganrant, what version drivers are you currently using?
Edit: Uninstalled and reinstalled 9.5 without CCC, and using Rivatuner to monitor temps. Still 99% load and shooting temps. Not being a frequent user of Rivatuner, I'm not sure how to tweak anything with it, so I'll get ATI tray tools and see what I can tweak with that.
Quote from: Miellerie on 2009 May 24, 14:38:52
Thanks for that! By monitoring temperature, do you mean just go into the CCC and checking the temperature right after a crash?
I reinstalled the game and the display driver today and the message about updating didn't pop up :) And I managed to get 4+ hours of play before it froze on a splitting family processing scene (sister marries other guy and moves out). I am thinking of getting a new card and cpu because my computer's quite old now and hopefully I'll have no more problems after that :)
The temparature usually falls somewhat rapidly for me when the game is closed, so I'd suggest running the game in windowed mode and having CCC in the background so you can watch the temps as you're playing.
Alternatively, get RivaTuner and open hardware monitoring. It'll create a graph so when you've closed the game, you can see what the loads were while it was running, rather than current load/temp only in CCC.
Edit 2: Just got ATI Tray Tools started: I do not need 680 fps, EA. That's why load goes down to ~20% when not active - the fps falls to 180. Still far to high. In game fps is about 260, which is completely unneccessary. In CAS, it's ~600 again. Result is 99% load and high temps, all for something I can't even notice.
FFS. I had this problem with Civ 4 but you can put an entry in the config files to limit framerate for that game. Any way to do this with Sims 3?
Edit 3: At fullscreen, it's reporting framerates at 60 but I'm still getting 99% load. Windowed mode has the framerate set to 'default' and I can't change it, resulting in apparently 600fps. I'd still like to experiment with limiting the framerate, but I can't find any settings in the .ini files to do so.
Also, is Sims 3 using OpenGL, or D3D?
snabul:
Concerning the cracked .exe:
To avoid confusion, I always rename the cracked .exe to something like "crackedSims3.exe".
Then I put it in the proper folder without renaming or deleting the original game .exe.
I create a link to the cracked .exe on my desktop that launches the game.
By the way: My reloaded version works perfectly.
timelycorruption:
I've got 3 GB of RAM. Saving torrent!TS3 requires 5.59 GB of RAM. Does it take 5 GB to run TS3? Would I need to get more RAM? If I wait until it's in stores, will I be able to play it?
I'm very confused, because there seem to be conflicting ideas about this; some people are playing it with 1 GB, yet it requires 5 GB to download. This is a paradox. I can has confusion. Feel free to poke me with sharp objects and cackle.
HomeschooledByTards:
Quote from: timelycorruption on 2009 May 25, 16:08:26
I've got 3 GB of RAM. Saving torrent!TS3 requires 5.59 GB of RAM. Does it take 5 GB to run TS3? Would I need to get more RAM? If I wait until it's in stores, will I be able to play it?
I'm very confused, because there seem to be conflicting ideas about this; some people are playing it with 1 GB, yet it requires 5 GB to download. This is a paradox. I can has confusion. Feel free to poke me with sharp objects and cackle.
HUR.
RAM =/= hard drive space.
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