What are your PC specs?
Baa:
Since we're on the topic of PC specs, I found this site very useful when it comes to seeing what TS2 uses and needs to use when you're playing the game, and how your specs really effect the game.
Basically the theory says that it mainly depends on your proccessor or something like that, I haven't really read it in a while.
Although, I'm not saying that article is speaking the complete and honest truth as I'm no computer whiz, but it does come from a reliable source.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Kingdom on 2005 December 07, 01:37:50
Since we're on the topic of PC specs, I found this site very useful when it comes to seeing what TS2 uses and needs to use when you're playing the game, and how your specs really effect the game.
Basically the theory says that it mainly depends on your proccessor or something like that, I haven't really read it in a while.
Although, I'm not saying that article is speaking the complete and honest truth as I'm no computer whiz, but it does come from a reliable source.
i know sims2 requires an 800 mhz processor and nightlife requires a 1000 MHZ processor. mine is well above the minimum at 2400.2 mhz or 2.42 ghz . I also have a pentium 4 with onborard intel extreme graphics for the moment and a 40 gb hard drive.my new hard drive just game in so I will be jumping to a 160gb HD and my processor speed will be changed to a 3.0 at same time as well as the new video card that will be installed the new video card is a Nvidia GE force with 256mb ram. . I also Have 1024 mb of RAM on my Desktop.
Sleepycat:
my Alienware computer is about 6 months old
Aurora 5500
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Chassis: Alienware Full-Tower Case - Space Black
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 510 Deluxe Upgrade
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Processor with HyperTransport Technology
Motherboard: ABIT AV8 - VIA K8T800 Pro Motherboard
Memory: 2GB Alienware Dual Channel Low-Latency DDR PC-3200 at 333MHz - 4 x 512MB
Graphics Processor: ATI RADEON X800 PRO 256MB DDR3 w/Digital and TV Out
Chassis Upgrades: AlienIce 2.0 Video Cooling System with Acoustic Dampening - Terra Green
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 160GB Serial ATA 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Optical Drive One: NEC ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive
Optical Drive Two: NEC ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE 1394)
runs TS2/UNI/NL great ;) This is MY baby, noone else is allowed to use it!
I have another thats about a year old that my daughter is allowed to use, it runs TS2/UNI/NL really well and she has rarely managed to crash the game (shes 12 and does all sorts of stuff to her sims) and shouldn't have any problems with future TS2 EPs but I don't have the specs on hand so I can't list them, spent app. $2,000 on it and my alienware baby was app. $4,000.
I'm not rich *is actually very poor* but I "came into some money" when I got my SSI back and knew I needed to replace my ancient computer (which TS2 never would have worked on and I doubt TS1 would have worked on it either) so I choose to spend the money and get the best I could since it will be a long time before I can afford to buy another new one.
Zilla:
Mine isn't anything exciting, but here ya go.
Vista- Home Premium
AMD Athlon 64X2 Duel Core Processor 5000+2.60 GHz
1918 MB Ram
32-bit operatiing system
455 GB hard drive
DirectX version 10
NVIDIA Geforce 6150 SE nForce 430
The only thing I've done with it is added a 500 GB external hard drive.
jolrei:
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 December 03, 23:37:27
I do play with 'reflection' turned to 'on', should I change that? Dang it, I like the feature. I have the neighborhood view on off, as well as the decoration view, but I guess that doesn't help much.
I generally play with reflections on, but reduce shadows to medium. I found that significantly increased performance in my game. Don't know if that's helpful in your case. Looking over your specs, it all looked fine to me (maybe a boost on display memory would help.
My own specs:
Intel P4 3Gig dual core with HT
1 gig RAM
ATI Radeon eXpress200 Northbridge (based on X300 chipset) (onboard)
Plays a Base/Uni/BV game with no problem, no lag, as long as shadows are reduced to medium. Load time is approximately 30 seconds from initial double-click to Neighbourhood view.
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