Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
brat:
That's exactly the kind of information I needed. Thanks so much for your help.
twistingsims:
Hi, its me again! lol So my hard drive died, got a new one and decided to upgrade my video card. Got everything reinstalled, Sims2 right up to the Glamour pack, but not including FFS.
Went into the game, everything is sloooooww motion!! Help!! I'm sure I must have to tweak something in the ATI control centre, or something. Ran the "Can you run this game" and here are the results . . .
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CPU Minimum: Pentium III or Athlon
. . . . . . . . . . You Have: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ .......................PASS
CPU Speed . . . .Minimum: 800 mhz with a T&L capable Video Card (2.0 Ghz without Hardware T&L Video Card)
. . . . . . . . . . . You Have: 1.46 GHz Performance Rated at 1.70 GHz . . . . . . . . . . . PASS
System RAM . . .Minimum: 256 MB
. . . . . . . . . . . .You Have: 639.5 MB . . . . . . PASS
Operating System . . . . . Minimum: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (95 & NT not supported)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .You Have: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Build 2600) . . . . . . . . . . PASS
Video Card . . . . . Minimum: 32 MB 3D accelerated video card (NVIDIA GeForce2/ATI Radeon VE/Intel Extreme Graphics or better)
. . . . . . . . . . . You Have: Radeon X1600 Series (Radeon X1600 Series AGP (0x71C2)) . . . . . . . . .PASS
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Video RAM: Required - 32 MB , You have - 512.0 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Rasterization: Required - no , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - no , You have - Yes
Video Card Driver Version (DirectX)
Your driver version number is: 6.14.10.6631
. . . . . FYI: Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card. Click 'Free Driver Update' and we'll direct you to your video card manufacturer.
Sound Card . . . . . Minimum: Yes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . You Have: VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM) . . . . . . . . PASS
Sound Card Driver Version . . . . . Your driver version number is: 5.1.2535.0
FYI: Your sound card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper sound card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product.
Free Disk Space . . . . . Minimum: 3.5 GB
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . You Have: 18.4 GB . . . . . . PASS
I did update the driver for the video card. Also, should I change the color quality from 16 bits to 32 bits? You're help will be greatly appreciated!! :D
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2006 September 14, 01:10:45
And get XP Pro instead of Media Center if you can. ;D
Don't "get" Windoze. It is not worth paying money for. You already have it anyway, so just go with "no OS". You're going to have to nuke and reinstall to cleanse the computer of factory-installed spyware anyway.
witch:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 September 18, 02:14:48
Quote from: Hegelian on 2006 September 14, 01:10:45
And get XP Pro instead of Media Center if you can. ;D
Don't "get" Windoze. It is not worth paying money for. You already have it anyway, so just go with "no OS". You're going to have to nuke and reinstall to cleanse the computer of factory-installed spyware anyway.
I honest-to-god saw over a dozen icons in the system tray of some poor bugger's brand new laptop. No wonder the machines get faster and faster, they're carrying a huge load of resource hungry crap they try to hide in the background. Windoze included, with it's payload of services - including the ones that allow people to pop in and run your PC.
J. M. Pescado:
And you wonder why I say you should nuke any preinstalled system with your own install-overs.
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