Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
DrBeast:
twistingsims: do you notice any slowdown or such in any other game and/or application or is you problem strictly Sims-related?
BTW, maybe you should post this on a thread of its own, in the "Oops! You Broke It!" section.
ZiggyDoodle:
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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.
I blame the computer mfgs for that. When I purchased my last Dell I tried to have some say in what would be installed - no go.
After I set up the system, I spent an hour dumping the crap, such as AOL (the biggest bugger of them all), Earthlink, and other garbage.
My next system will be custom built.
Hegelian:
Quote from: twistingsims on 2006 September 17, 21:12:58
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 . . .
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
Yes, you should set the graphics to 32-bit color. You can also try reducing the various settings in the game's graphics controls. Beyond that, the Athlon XP 1700+ is pretty slow by current standards. Those have been off the market for some time, so finding an upgrade will be difficult. If it is a Socket A CPU, you may be able to use one of the current Socket A Semprons, but you will need to check with the motherboard manufacturer to find out whether the board will support the "Thoroughbred" Semprons. As of June 2002, there was an Athlon XP 1700+ as part of the Thoroughbred line (earlier models used the "Palomino" core), so it is possible your motherboard will support CPUs with the Thoroughbred core. If you can use one of these Semprons, the 2800+ is $75 at Newegg.
twistingsims:
Quote from: DrBeast on 2006 September 18, 08:12:18
twistingsims: do you notice any slowdown or such in any other game and/or application or is you problem strictly Sims-related?
BTW, maybe you should post this on a thread of its own, in the "Oops! You Broke It!" section.
Sorry about posting in the wrong place, but I wanted to know if this graphic card is too much for my processor and if I get a lower end graphic card, would that solve the problem.
Sims2 seems to be the only game that is doing the slow motion thing, its not lagging or choppy, just all slow motion! I've tried changing all the settings in the game, but makes no difference. Also tried changing settings in the ATI control centre, but that hasn't changed the slow motion of the game.
Hegelian:
Quote from: twistingsims on 2006 September 18, 16:46:26
Sorry about posting in the wrong place, but I wanted to know if this graphic card is too much for my processor and if I get a lower end graphic card, would that solve the problem.
Well, no. The graphics processor will just wait for the CPU to feed it data. Have you checked to see if the CPU is running at its proper speed? You can use cpu-z to see the CPU speed--do a Google search. :)
OTOH, it may be possible that your power supply isn't adequate for the X1600, although this does not appear to be a demanding board compared to what is currently available. I don't know whether insufficient power to the graphics board would slow down the game, though.
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