How fast is your TS3?
laylei:
I'm actually experiencing a lot of freezing... not the game itself, but my entire computer will freeze up for about 10-20 seconds often while I play the game. I figure this is because I'm playing it in windowed mode and browsing Firefox at the same time. I'm not willing to give up Firefox while I play, so does anyone have any recommendations as to what I could upgrade to stop the freezing of my system?
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2 CPUs)
RAM: 2046MB RAM
Oh, and I'm running XP, I'm assuming 32 bit? It's XP Professional, I have no idea otherwise.
wes_h:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 August 16, 09:25:55
There won't be an overall 4GB limit anymore with XP64 but the 2GB allocation limit for TS3 will remain
With Vista-64 and 8 GB of RAM, I can fire up the game andwhile chat, internet, Visual Studio or whatever else I happen to be working on are still open, without shredding my hard drive from constant system paging. Vista has a reputation for being memory-hungry because it will use all that you have available to avoid paging.
So yes, TS3 is stuck with a 2 GB limit, but here it has its own 2 GB, nothing else needs to get the heave-ho for it to be running.
Zazazu:
I'm significantly faster: 25-27 seconds to menu, 'hood load depends on the population but is around the same time you have. Save is about 10-12 seconds, depending on population again.
Addison is very clean. Ridiculously so, both outwardly and data-wise.
dedust:
Quote from: laylei on 2009 August 16, 20:37:43
I'm actually experiencing a lot of freezing... not the game itself, but my entire computer will freeze up for about 10-20 seconds often while I play the game. I figure this is because I'm playing it in windowed mode and browsing Firefox at the same time. I'm not willing to give up Firefox while I play, so does anyone have any recommendations as to what I could upgrade to stop the freezing of my system?
Give up on that Firefox. It's known to leak memory on the long run, so the longer you have it on, the more it hogs up your resources. Even more so if you have multiple tabs open. Also you could try upgrading your video card drivers. And play in full screen mode, you can always alt+tab to desktop.
I myself have a late 08 MBP, 2.8 GHz Intel/4GB RAM, running TS3 in OSX. It used to be faster, then it became slower, and then probably patch 1.3 fixed the graphics so now it's nearly as fast as it used to be. Of course I have some patterns that slow the game down, with bigger houses it's actually quite annoying. (DAMN YOU LANDGRAABS!)
No idea on the actual loading times, as I still have to watch trough the intro movies, no mods there yet. Also I'm currently experiencing a wave of loading crashes, and letting the intro movie play works for this :-\ I don't feel it's too slow, but I fear TS2 speeds are coming, and that's just nasty. Tried to install TS3 on Win7, but for some reason the system froze during installation, TWICE, so no luck there.
Those of you still using xp or vista, I suggest switching over to win7, If your hardware supports it. It's significantly faster, uses the resources much better, and generally works. Also I believe it's still legally available as RC1, you'll get a serial from Microsoft if you already have the software. Though they don't let you download it anymore :P
blackgryffin:
Quote from: de_dust on 2009 August 16, 23:15:38
Give up on that Firefox. It's known to leak memory on the long run, so the longer you have it on, the more it hogs up your resources. Even more so if you have multiple tabs open. Also you could try upgrading your video card drivers. And play in full screen mode, you can always alt+tab to desktop.
I myself have a late 08 MBP, 2.8 GHz Intel/4GB RAM, running TS3 in OSX. It used to be faster, then it became slower, and then probably patch 1.3 fixed the graphics so now it's nearly as fast as it used to be. Of course I have some patterns that slow the game down, with bigger houses it's actually quite annoying. (DAMN YOU LANDGRAABS!)
No idea on the actual loading times, as I still have to watch trough the intro movies, no mods there yet. Also I'm currently experiencing a wave of loading crashes, and letting the intro movie play works for this :-\ I don't feel it's too slow, but I fear TS2 speeds are coming, and that's just nasty. Tried to install TS3 on Win7, but for some reason the system froze during installation, TWICE, so no luck there.
Those of you still using xp or vista, I suggest switching over to win7, If your hardware supports it. It's significantly faster, uses the resources much better, and generally works. Also I believe it's still legally available as RC1, you'll get a serial from Microsoft if you already have the software. Though they don't let you download it anymore :P
Same configuration than yours : late 08 MBP, 2.8 GHz Intel/4GB RAM, running TS3 in OSX
I found the Sims 3 faster since the last 1.3.24 update. I want first read everything related to the last 1.4 update before updating the game now. I'm not in the hurry since the 1.3.24 stabilzed the gameplay ...
Never tested on XP via Parallels : I prefer a lot playing on the Mac :P :P
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