How fast is your TS3?
RiceBall:
If you buildt your own rig you should be fairly tech savy and comfortable installing/tweaking hardware.
Have you tried overclocking your existing cpu/mem? Defragged? Why spend money if you do not need to in my opinion.
You would get a more noticeable gain with a new cpu vs ram. Bad idea to buy faster ram, more is better, what I mean is 6-8 gigs of 6400 ram is more productive then 4 gigs of 9600 ram, cheaper too by roughly half. This is only appicable in a 64bit OS. Your video card will be a bottleneck if you upgrade to a faster cpu.
Overclock first then buy new hardware if you're still not satisfied. :)
shinygobonkers:
these threads always make me wonder...
I play the game on a 12 inch tablet laptop, with that whore that is Vista, half the time with several other programs running also, and have never felt that the game was running particularly/annoyingly slow for me? I remember TS2 took waay longer to load, back in the day....
will try to get specific specs later to see if i just have way lower standards than yall...
Caraleede:
Quote from: Mire Krisma on 2009 August 15, 17:41:01
I smell a Mac fan.
You misunderstood why I came. Your legit site made me come.
Skadi:
Since we're throwing around hardware configs and questions, I just upgraded to a AMD 4600+ dual core with 4gb ram and a shiny new Nvidia GTS250 1gb video card. TS3 flies, and I'm looking forward to reinstalling TS2 to enjoy it at a reasonable speed.
I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to arr-quire a copy of 64 bit XP to take advantage of the new hardware. Does 64 bit XP recognise more ram or is 4gb still the limit? I'd rather not go to Vista, I just find it really clunky.
RiceBall:
Quote from: Skadi on 2009 August 16, 04:51:08
Since we're throwing around hardware configs and questions, I just upgraded to a AMD 4600+ dual core with 4gb ram and a shiny new Nvidia GTS250 1gb video card. TS3 flies, and I'm looking forward to reinstalling TS2 to enjoy it at a reasonable speed.
I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to arr-quire a copy of 64 bit XP to take advantage of the new hardware. Does 64 bit XP recognise more ram or is 4gb still the limit? I'd rather not go to Vista, I just find it really clunky.
XP 64 recognizes up to 128gb of ram. If you going the arr route might as well go with Windows 7(ram limit ranges from 8-192gb between the six editions) to take advatage of dx10+, you can switch back to XP 64 of your not happy.
Nice video card but it' s hugely bottlenecked by your cpu a phenom II would be a better match. Hopefully your current cpu is socket am2 and not 939.
Sims 2 does not support multicore processors, so your performance leap may not be as profound.
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