The Horror...
sewinglady:
Quote from: The_Goddess on 2010 March 14, 18:34:53
Quote from: sewinglady on 2010 March 14, 18:20:43
(okay, to be fair, sometimes real life is just more important than pixelated people).
Bite your tongue.
Stupid suggestion…
Have you tried turning off all unnecessary background apps before starting the game?
There are no "unnecessary apps" on the XP partition. It exists solely to play the game. It's on it's own hard drive as well, not a partition of a larger drive. I suppose I could shut down some of the MS gobbledygook that runs in the background all the time, but since it's a bare bones load, I'm not sure there's all that much there to begin with.
Rockermonkey:
Well you could try as I said before and turn detail lots to 1. I personally never noticed it, I feel that setting is just a waste of resources. I've never had an issue with view distance though, I play in an almost birds eye view angle so maybe that's why. But the only way to stop the whole 'lots loading constantly' thing is by turning it to 1, which I recommend.
The_Goddess:
Quote from: sewinglady on 2010 March 14, 19:27:50
I suppose I could shut down some of the MS gobbledygook that runs in the background all the time, but since it's a bare bones load, I'm not sure there's all that much there to begin with.
You'd be surprised how much gobbledygook MS puts in there. It certainly couldn't hurt to try playing the game without all of that junk running in the background.
Elektro Guy:
I've got 26 processes running in Windoze 7 when I'm gaming. I built this system for gaming. You'd be surprised how many tricks I've got up my sleeve to make a computer run video games with all the detail set to high. Anyways, resources aren't an issue. Nothing is really hogging up processor power or memory when I'm in gaming mode.
I don't have a problem with lot detail for some reason...as long as I don't set it past 4. Whether it's at 4 or 1, I still get a stutter issue. I just set the draw distance from high to low a moment ago, and there seems to be an improvement in performance so the stutter isn't annoying or troublesome anymore, and I don't really notice any crappy graphics anywhere with the setting on low since I play with the camera looking down at my Sims at an angle. I don't see how anyone could play with advanced rendering turned off. That just makes the game butt ugly. So if you've got a shitty computer, you gotta do what you gotta do...but I kinda feel sorry for you.
Also, I notice that everytime I clear caches for the game, it'll start stuttering more with camera movements. I think I'm going to leave caches alone as I don't see a reason to delete them really...
I'm setting a few homes down in my hood at a time now hoping I don't run into some kind of stuttery lag bullshit that will appear out of the blue. I never know what's going to start fucking around with my game, and I'll probably never totally get rid of the stutter because, well...The Sims 3 is really a poorly developed game. I don't know what kind of game engine or code EAxis is using to run this fucker, but it sucks real bad. What a joke.
P.S. My video card drivers aren't the issue.
Tever:
Deleting the caches helps when you download or delete default replacements, like skins. The previous defaults are stored in simCompositor, and you can't sometimes can't see the replacement until you delete it. I think there's a few other times when it's useful to do, but I don't know what they are. The increased slow down is because the game has to rebuild them whenever you delete them. So yeah, don't bother unless you have a good reason.
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