Can my game be better if I upgrade my machine?
NoShitSherlock:
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/7126-The-Official-Windows-7-Repository - If you still want to bother with upgrading to 7. It's essentially the OEM edition of any version you choose, without actually paying for it.
You may also want to try ccleaner to clean all the shit out of your registry, which might improve some performance.
Madame Mim:
I know where you're coming from. My virus program asked to do a full update this morning, on both my machine and my fathers. He double checked with me that it wasn't some evil plot to take over his computer and then allowed the install to start. After it had installed Windows did it's usual complaints that *wah, virus program off* *wah, virus program using old signature file* *wah* *wah* *wah*
And he rang me up to tell me about it - while I was on a bus into work. He wouldn't listen when I tried to explain why. He wouldn't listen when I told him that the Windows pop-ups were useless and he needed to open VET to see if it was still updating or what. He sent me an email later today to complain about the time it took to do a base line virus check.
edit: anybody have any comments/ideas on the preferability of one of these 2 video cards over the other?
GTX 450 128bit 1Gb DDR5GTX 460 192bit 750Mb DDR5
There's almost $AU100 difference between them and (if it was worth it - ie Sims could make use of it) I'd be able to buy 2 of the 450's
Alexina:
Quote from: wizard_merlin on 2011 February 15, 03:10:32
Quote from: Alexina on 2011 February 13, 14:52:20
A better machine will only take you so far. You'll get nice graphics, fairly nice speed, but the game itself is poorly written using inefficient and half-assed coding hence why it is so slow, glitchy, laggy, runs your fan to max and uses a helluva lot of CPU power, and if you use mods and packs then that adds more load to the game.
I disagree and think your just full of shit and bile because you can't get it to work on your machine for whatever reason.
I am lucky if my fan speeds get above 50% of max speed, and it usually grabs one core only, which isn't really taxing on the CPU or even a "Helluva lot of CPU power" as you describe it. I had a couple of sound issues after LN, which would drive up a core or two, but finally seem to have them solved. The game isn't what I would call slow or laggy, unless playing on the underspec'ed laptop, even though occasionally when something specific occurs it may appear to lag or be slightly slower, but hardly the major disaster you are implying it is. Yes it is buggy and poorly written, but mods like AM solve most of those issues and clean everything up.
The same thing applies to you as it does to Cwunts, if you don't like the game, stop playing it.
What the hell are you on about? Sims works fine on my machine because I shelled out for a top model gaming machine. It's just a fact that TS3 is a badly written piece of trash and puts all load on the CPU instead of the GPU, so an average computer not really designed for running power-hungry games on it running TS3 will feel the burn literally whilst a well specced computer may not notice that it's being overprocessed and can handle the abuse. I aint sputing garbage or quoting what may have been written elsewhere, I am telling you facts and it aint just with TS3 it's with all Sim games and SimCity 4 is just as crap.
And let's face it, awesomemod can only do so much. Yeah it'll clean up a lot of the crap that the game ends up just dumping here and there and make the game more playable, but it isn't a magic wand that's gonna fix every damned thing that's wrong with TS3 and the way it got designed.
You can go and live in your own fantasy world and deny that TS3 is so badly written that it can fry a standard home computer, or that if you get a whopping big supercomputer that suddenly the game will improve beyond its maximum performance. I aint a hot-headed teenage moron who thinks he's ace at everything that many of you appear to be. How about rather than trying to pretend you're ace at everything and sputing bullshit back at people who are trying to talk sense that you go do something you're really good at which is finding some photoshopped artwork from failblog and spamming topics with them.
It's frickin' Sims, if you're gonna get aggressive over a virtual dolly house then you need to get a life and some fresh air.
tizerist:
Madame Mim, have you actually tried altering the address header? You didn't say.
This is the core improvement to the game, and I can't imagine you'd have any crashing if you tried it.
Madame Mim:
I must have missed that bit Tiserist - what address header?
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