How fast is your TS3?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 August 16, 09:25:55
Overclocking can't do miracles. It's a good result to squeeze 3GHz out of a Brisbane-Athlon but the resulting 20% perfomance increase are just on the edge of noticeability. There's no way it can compete with a Phenom II at any rate.
Overclocking can do apparently miracles if you're willing to resort to extreme measures like having the entire computer and boards immersed in liquid nitrogen.
Skadi:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 August 16, 09:25:55
Quote from: Skadi on 2009 August 16, 04:51:08
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?
There won't be an overall 4GB limit anymore with XP64 but the 2GB allocation limit for TS3 will remain, so if that's the whole reason to it there's not that much of a point. Besides I wouldn't arr Windozes past 2K, circumventing the activation while still being able to patch on an OS that can't be definitely stopped from calling home isn't that much fun.
If the WGA is an issue, you're not trying hard enough. :D Found a legitimate key, modded my hosts file, and haven't looked back since. Same way I get CS4 to play nice.
kuronue:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 August 16, 09:25:55
I've read before that TS3 runs better on machines equipped with 4GB instead of 2GB but I still don't get it. There's no way TS3 can benefit from that extra RAM directly since it cannot allocate it
I believe the point is that background applications and the OS will still leave more than 2GB free at all times so Sims can use as much as its greedy little heart desires.
Bouncing Pink Ball:
I'm playing on a low spec, by comparison to most here anyway, system and haven't noticed any troubles aside from mod or prepatch game-related ones that are no longer an issue. My game is noticeably slow to load and save, but once it gets going there's no obvious lag in game play. I'm a bit surprised by that; my computer is primarily set up for design, not gaming. I have graphic, animation and editing apps, not to mention huge graphics files, eating up most of my (one and only) hard drive right now, leaving me with less than a third free prior to even installing TS3, but I do have 4gb ram. Back when I built my own desktop pcs, I used to keep a stock supply of extra bits around and make regular visits to a work-related parts supplier (discounts!), taking time to build game-ready systems, but finances and life in general kind of made all that less of a priority.
I never even attempt to play games, TS3 included, without shutting down any unnecessary process my computer might have lurking about for no useful reason. I even switch off my internet connection and shut down the firewall just for any extra resources I can free up. Maybe that's why, even on a Vista os laptop and with all options aside from sim detail at the highest setting, the game seems to run as it should. So far, anyway.
Buzzler:
Quote from: Rockermonkey on 2009 August 16, 13:36:24
Never overclock, unless you have extra fans because it will cause the processor or card to become more unstable it most cases. So you have to be ready for wilder temps.{...}
Stability is a binary thing, "more unstable" makes little sense. And yes, the temps increase if you overclock but this doesn't necessarily mean there's going to be problem about it if the airflow isn't increased. There's a linear dependency between clock speed and generated heat and a quadratic dependency between generated heat and supply voltage. Ergo: If you don't or only moderately raise the supply voltages heat usually doesn't become a problem, not unless it was a problem to begin with.
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 August 16, 13:39:34
Overclocking can do apparently miracles if you're willing to resort to extreme measures like having the entire computer and boards immersed in liquid nitrogen.
So we're talking about excessively overclocking and overvolting every single IC, yes? ;D ICs don't work below a certain temperature, when cooling a CPU with liquid nitrogen the system needs to be booted first before the liquid nitrogen gets applied so the CPU doesn't get cooled down too far. On a mainboard the northbridge and SMPS transistors are probably the only devices besides the CPU that generate enough heat to "defend" themselves against being cooled down too far.
Quote from: kuronue on 2009 August 16, 14:46:56
I believe the point is that background applications and the OS will still leave more than 2GB free at all times so Sims can use as much as its greedy little heart desires.
The problem with that theory is that TS3 isn't even that greedy.
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