What's the best system to play TS2 and EP's on?
linolino:
thats right. the game doesn't demand a lot od the processor if you have a good amount of avaible RAM and a good Video Card.
HRH Posie:
Quote from: linolino on 2005 September 15, 17:59:00
thats right. the game doesn't demand a lot od the processor if you have a good amount of avaible RAM and a good Video Card.
Hmm that's entirely different to the details found here :-\
The link was taken from filippinokidd's thread here
Renatus:
... My first instincts on reading that article is that this person is full of crap. I run Sims 2 on a laptop with a much more powerful processor (2.8gHz compared to 1.5gHz) than my husband's desktop, just as much RAM (512), and a slightly worse videocard (since my is a mobility card; his is a Radeon 9-something or other with 64MB RAM onboard), and his computer runs the game far better than mine. His computer can render bumpmaps and he can have many more sims on a lot, and the censor blur doesn't slow his computer down. His computer can also render water correctly in neighborhood view; mine renders it as flat blue.
I get this feeling that the person doing those tests was missing something important, but buggered if I can figure out what.
linolino:
Quote from: HRH Posie on 2005 September 15, 18:05:33
Quote from: linolino on 2005 September 15, 17:59:00
thats right. the game doesn't demand a lot od the processor if you have a good amount of avaible RAM and a good Video Card.
Hmm that's entirely different to the details found here :-\
The link was taken from filippinokidd's thread here
Thats not true at all! Go to The Sims 2 and look at the game requirements...
Also, That statement is mostly nonsense: Both video cards they mentioned there (GeForce 7800 GTX and GeForce 6600 GT) are powerfull video cards, so, of course there won't be any difference in gameplay if you use one or the other.
But get a GeForce4 440 MX, wich is a medium powerfull card, and try to play with a 2GHz PC (my case). You have to play with graphics on low if you want to play with a larger lot and more than 5 sims in it.
However it is true that the more RAM, the better.
-----------------UPDATE-------------
Oh, threres one thing: the game has a lot of loading, loading the nieghborhood, loading the residential lot, loading the community lot when you go out, loading another community lot, loading again the resdential lot when you leave the community lot. So that part is basically dependant on CPU power, however, a lot of RAM helps here.
---------------UPDATE 2------------
Ok, i changed my mind a bit. The game is not entirely dependant only on video card. of course not. You can't get a GeForce 7800 or Radeon x800 and expect it to run smoothly. you gotta have a good processor. However you don't need the most expensive video card, neither the most fast processor. i found out that a Radeon 9600 XT together with a 2.4GHz processor and a 1GB RAM, can run the game better than you expect
HRH Posie:
Your bottleneck is indeed your video card however I believe the article is trying to imply that once you get past a certain point, the bottleneck shifts to the processor hence the two high spec graphics cards showing little difference :) As you rightly mention, replacing the video card for a high end card in a system with a 1 GHz processor would be a waste however I have seen people do just this on the BBS. Of course they then wonder why their game experience has not dramatically improved.
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