What in the world is it about the game that makes it so badly optimized?

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raptureswild:
Quote from: Mosquito on 2010 June 01, 14:58:59

Motion to put the term "masturbatory e-peen" in everyday usage/MATY terminology.

Who`s in favor?


I second the motion.

To quote JMP (OK, paraphrase), "There is always something else to do in The Sims 2."  I'm contemplating.

ETA: What about putting games on a SSD?  Would that improve performance over a regular HDD?

Buzzler:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2010 June 01, 11:12:06

1. Unlike Sims, things in shooters are pretty much entirely static. Every single texture and object has already been pre-rendered before the game shipped. Because the world is mostly static, lighting and other fancy things can be precomputed during level creation.
No, shooters are just as realtime-rendered as TS3. For modern shooters dynamic lights and shadows are on an entirely different level in comparison to TS3.

A big difference is that objects get recycled to a great extent. There are only so much trees, so much shrubs etc. and placing one object a dozen times is less demanding than placing a dozen objects once.

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3. Unlike the Sims, the number of objects the camera can see in a shooter is typically fairly small. Your field of view is typically maybe about a 90-degree cone centered around the player character's head. This is rather unbig, really.
In shooters the reach of vision is greater and the LOD boundaries a farther apart. There's no big difference in the end. At least not in favor of TS3.

Quote from: raptureswild on 2010 June 02, 05:22:56

ETA: What about putting games on a SSD?  Would that improve performance over a regular HDD?
Probably.

Claeric:
EA read this topic and added stuff to the patch at the last minute, because Ambitions fixes half of these issues. I can zoom around town at 3X speed without any lag- I dont think the game tries to load lots unless you are for sure on them now.

snowbawl:
Would you kindly shut the fuck up, crackbaby?  For two days now you have posted your rampant, unabetted drivel all over this board.  Your play-by-play commentary citing your expansion pack experience is tedious at best.

jezzer:
Quote from: snowbawl on 2010 June 02, 16:22:10

Would you kindly shut the fuck up, crackbaby?  For two days now you have posted your rampant, unabetted drivel all over this board.  Your play-by-play commentary citing your expansion pack experience is tedious at best.


Yes, as opposed to everyfuckingbody else who is commenting on their Ambitions experience non-stop.  God forbid anyone discuss a Sims game in the Sims section of a Sims mod site.

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