Can my game be better if I upgrade my machine?
Madame Mim:
I need a new case. The old one is physically damaged. The face falls off it everytime I try to move it. A case was always on my list.
I recently bought a SATA HD so there is very little that has been installed on the HD excepting my protection software and, I must admit, Microsoft Office.
I know it sounds bass-ackwards to you, but if I'm updating the case the next logical step is to upgrade from my P4, which means it must be MB & RAM to go with. At that stage I don't have enough left in this kitty to do the GPU this time but I can squeeze an OEM version of Windows 7 out of it I thought that would work. I suppose I could do it in the opposite direction. Start with the card and do the others later. That jibes against my 'begin at the beginning' mentality.
witch:
OK, that explanation does add new information and make a bit more sense.
One question, do you turn off virus protection while gaming? I turn Avast off so it is not running constantly, though I never turn off the firewall. Virus protection running all the time can really slow some games.
Don't forget you will need a bigger power supply - to cover a new video card, even later on - and possibly power more cooling.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2011 February 15, 06:35:40
Like I said there are little to no issues with my game. I just wanted to make sure that this update time I spent my money in the places most likely to cause improvement to the game performance.
You are not likely to see much improvement in game performance no matter what you do, short of taking extreme measures like running the entire game off a RAMdisk.
Madame Mim:
I'll admit I hadn't thought of turning VET off. I suppose that might smooth out anything that might be caused by sharing the processing capabilities. I'll admit, though, that I'm vacillating. The case is a must and it's where the rest of the upgrade now idea came from.
I'm going to take this whole thread to my friend who knows hardware and have him read it. I think you were right Witch when you said I missed some intrinsic point. I'll have him add his advise on what to get as well as a new case.
snapzit:
Quote from: witch on 2011 February 15, 08:38:35
One question, do you turn off virus protection while gaming? I turn Avast off so it is not running constantly, though I never turn off the firewall. Virus protection running all the time can really slow some games.
Virus protection nearly killed my game. I hated it. Even when turned off, it wouldn't go completely off. It was terrible.
I switched, after a lot of research on various ones, and the one I'm using now is smooth as butter, lightweight, and effective. I can't mention it here due to the "NO SHILLING" rule, because it's not free. I can tell you that you will not find it in a store, so start googling. I don't turn it off during play.
I have a Quad Core, 2.4 GHZ, 3GB RAM, running 32 bit Vista. The graphics card is an NVidia GE Force 9600 with 512 MB Ram. Sims 3 works fine, with only the occasional judder, which almost goes away when I remember to dump the cache files. I have a pretty fair amount of CC, including AwesomeMod. I use high graphics settings in the game.
Follow Pescado's advice to turn off the crap running in the background. It doesn't need to be running and just bogs down the game and strains the computer for no reason. Reset your start-up menu.
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