Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
DrBeast:
Quote from: Akharra on 2007 March 12, 14:31:40
Yes, it is a PCI. I bought this computer before I knew any better. Next year I am building my own gaming pc. For now, though, I need to upgrade a little or my eyes will start to bleed!
My eyes bleed just by reading that!
Quote from: Akharra on 2007 March 12, 14:31:40
Thanks! I think I will go with the 1300/ 256. I hope it helps!
You might be interested in this X1550 if you're in the States (judging by the times you post, it looks like you're in North America scratch that, Forum Time went bonkers on me again :P). With the rebate and all, it's a pretty good deal. Otherwise, I think $100+ for a bloody PCI card is a waste of money. You'd be better off with a plain old Radeon 9250 for a little over $50 (like this one) and an ample supply of artificial tears ;D
witch:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2007 March 12, 15:19:11
Quote from: witch on 2007 March 09, 13:48:01
Read RTFMs, touched things lovingly. Hah, I'm not a nerd.
* syberspunk has mental images of witch gently fondleing her power cords and caressing her various computer parts, holding them up to cheek.
Was it you looking in my window then!
Paperbladder:
I've got a question about Hard Drives, a commonly overlooked component in PCs.
I currently use a 100GB 5200RPM SATA HDD in my notebook, and I recently got a 500GB 7200RPM Western Digital External HDD with 16MB Cache. I'm wondering If I'll take a speed hit by running the game off of the external since it has to go through a USB 2.0 connection.
Aggie:
Well, I thought I might ask some advice from the resident people-who-know-what-they're-talking-about crowd. :)
I purchased a new video card today and am just waiting until Monday to get in installed on my CPU (I know absolutely nothing about installing hardware beyond that one time I added some RAM, so I figured I'd let the experts handle it). My question: will my CPU (more specifically, my processor) be able to handle it?
I'm pretty sure this is the card I bought (although the box looks utterly different, but that might be due to the fact that I bought it in Canada?). Here are my system specs:
Processor: AMD Sempron 2800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0 GHz
Current Video Card: VIA/S3G Unichrome IGP
If any other info is needed, please let me know. I seem to recall J.M. Pescado saying to me a while ago that my processor would be the problem with handling any sort of upgrades to my CPU, but can't quite recall what was suggested. :-[
Akharra:
O.K. I bought and installed an Ati x1300. The graphics are alot better! But, I still cannot play a 3x3 lot with four people and two dogs. No trees/shrubs/plants. No pool. No pond. Gameplay is slow and choppy.
I have 1024 gigs of ram...should I throw in another gig? I downloaded Cacheman XP and when I am on my lot I have about 200mb of ram left.
I have a little over 1 gig of cc. Very few clothes and hair. Is this the problem?
I kow Celerons suck. It is a 2.6. Is this the bottleneck?
I am at a loss here. I have done everything I know to do. I shut down all security and background tasks. I defragged. I have 19 gigs of free space left. All graphics settings are set on "performance".
I have Xp, would creating a seperate account just for Sims help much?
I am stuck with this system for another year. It does play other games well. Morowind with all expansions, Black & White 2, Star Wars Jedi Academy and Empire at War, Sim City Deluxe. But it plays Sim Stories choppy, too.
If anyone has any suggestions or advice, I would greatly appreciate it. I love this stupid game. ;D
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