Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
Scotty:
My poor graphics card is at deaths door, I can still play the game, but it doesnt look all that shiny.
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
Quote from: moondance on 2009 May 31, 03:18:27
My card is an HD 2400, and no, I've had no issues at all, and I do have all settings on high. I was a little concerned when I read on here that some peoples' cards/computers were overheating, and mine is one of those little slender Dells with not much space inside (Inspiron 530S,) and nothing impressive in the way of fans, but I've run the game for hours with no problems at all.
One thing might be worth noting though--or might be irrelevant, but I'll mention it anyway. I upgraded my drivers a few months ago and immediately started experiencing problems with Sims 2. I downgraded back to the 8.530 drivers, but not before reading some complaints that the new 9.x drivers seemed to be causing some peoples' video cards to run much hotter than they had before upgrading. I have no idea if that was an issue that was fixed with subsequent drivers, or if it was an issue that was imaginary in the first place, but I'm still using the 8.530 driver and having no graphical issues with either game, and no overheating.
That's what's odd for me -- no overheating (have a cooling kit and many fans inside this beast), so that's not an issue. I have a HD 3200, so I should also be able to set edge smoothing to high without getting almost bald sims. I do have the 9.5s that came out earlier this month, and I've had to play "Find A Good Driver" before when I still had a Nvidia and was getting the wonderful blue screen of Sims 2 death, so maybe I have to play that game again.
Yaakovashoshana:
This is not technically a technical problem, since I haven't acquired the Sims 3 yet, but I have noticed an anomaly when it comes to system requirements. I have a 6 year old desktop that runs The Sims 2 + plus all EP's and SP's with no problem. I went to that "Can You Run It?" site just to see if my rig was up to the new game. It failed . . . and I really wasn't too surprised.
I have a much newer laptop - only a couple of years old - and went to the same site. I tested Apartment Life and it failed, which I expected. I had already tried installing the Sims 2 on that machine, and the graphics card is not supported, which made the resulting gameplay less than impressive. However, when I tested my laptop for Sims 3, it passed with the CPU and Video Card just beyond the minimum requirement.
Does this strike anyone else as odd - that the newer machine can't run the older game, but it will run the newer (and supposedly more graphics-intensive) game? Just wondering.
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
I'm wondering if it gave you a lower score on the laptop just because it's a laptop. Or perhaps the older computer has a better video card (or a better something in any case) than the laptop does (which can be the case).
Yaakovashoshana:
Quote from: Zaphod Beeblebrox on 2009 May 31, 17:45:32
I'm wondering if it gave you a lower score on the laptop just because it's a laptop. Or perhaps the older computer has a better video card (or a better something in any case) than the laptop does (which can be the case).
I don't think the site differentiates between laptop or desktop when it checks the system. It just runs an applet that checks CPU, RAM, OS, Video, Sound and Available Disk Space.
It merely seems strange to me that the graphics card on the new machine that isn't good enough to run the old game will supposedly run the new game. I would certainly think that the Sims 3 would be more graphics-intensive than the Sims 2.
Maybe I'm wrong. It's happened before.
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