Can my game be better if I upgrade my machine?
Narmy:
Quote from: Alexina on 2011 February 21, 20:28:01
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.
I guess I was just dreaming when it worked fine on my Core2Duo with an ATI HD 3xxx/4xxx series. Yeah I shelled out the big bucks for that one.
tizerist:
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2011 February 21, 21:22:09
I must have missed that bit Tizerist - what address header?
http://nene.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_3:Large_Address_Aware
spockblock:
Quote from: tizerist on 2011 February 22, 00:08:48
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2011 February 21, 21:22:09
I must have missed that bit Tizerist - what address header?
http://nene.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_3:Large_Address_Aware
The game now handles large memory addressing by default, at least since Late Night came out. Patching to the latest version should make it irrelevant whether you have the EPs or SPs installed or not.
Madame Mim:
I had just been sitting here trying to remember why I thought LAA was now irrelevant (as far as having to enable it) in my game - what Spockblock said.
No I hadn't looked into it.
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: Alexina on 2011 February 21, 20:28:01
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.
I have a higher end spec'ed PC which things work great on, and I also have an underspec'ed laptop for when I am not at home to utilise the PC. If you read my original post, I never said the game wasn't poorly written and buggy as hell, but my experience on both the desktop and laptop, isn't as bad as what you make it out to be. I have played Sims 2 and Simcity 4, and never had any issues, even on underspec'ed systems. My only problem with both of those game now, is that they don't support the full resolution of the monitors and graphics cards, while simcity 4 especially doesn't look very good at the resolutions available, otherwise game play is fine.
I also never said the game can't fry a standard home computer, as it can and even has the potential to fry the most high end system, but it mainly fries graphics cards, including the high end ones, rather than other components, due to the high FPS the game drives the cards at unless you run a limiter, which is a really bad design flaw on the part of EAxis.
I stand by what I said in response to the passage I quoted from you originally. Even on my underspec'ed laptop, which has only has a 2.1 Ghz Intel Duo, the game isn't that slow, glitchy, laggy and unplayable like you are suggesting. Yes, the desktop runs the game much better, which it should, as it runs most programs better, but the laptop handles the game to a perfectly acceptable standard for being underspec'ed and a laptop. Yes, the game does occasionally CTD for unknown reasons, yes I have had some sound issues previously, but nothing which makes the whole thing unplayable and makes me want to stop playing.
You're the one sounding all aggressive and bent out of shape because I dare to have a different view and a game which runs just fine. Perhaps you're the one who needs to get a life if you get this worked up over NOT being able to get your virtual dolly house to work.
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