Anyone had a house party yet?
sara_dippity:
Here's something even more interesting than the minimum requirements. This is copied from my graphics rules file.
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# Constants
#
seti Off 0
seti On 1
seti Low 1
seti Medium 2
seti High 3
seti MediumButDefaultLow 4
seti memoryLevelHigh 512
seti memoryLevelMedium 384
seti memoryLevelLow 256
seti memoryLevelUnknown 0
seti cpuLevelHigh 2800
seti cpuLevelMedium 2200
seti cpuLevelLow 1000
seti cpuLevelUnsupported 0
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The only thing I understand about it is this. The "seti memoryLevelHigh", medium and low, means if you have at least 512 ram, your default settings will be set to high. 384 is medium, 256 is low. Same with your cpu level on the second part. This determines your graphic textures, object detail, number of sims on a lot, all that.
Here's what I think is interesting. I have 1g of ram. My processor should be rated high as well. My game runs like butter on highest texture settings, object detail, light, shadows, and on community lots. Everything runs very well. Before I had nightlife my settings were always the highest defaults. They should still be. But they are not. I only get two sims for parties, my textures were set to the lowest, reflections were off. The only high option I have in my defaults is high object detail. When I set them back to high, my computer still runs like butter even on on a community lot with all the neighborhood view options set to high.
Mr. Maxoid suggested tweaking the file I copied from, but I have nothing to tweak. I meet the requirements already.
The only way I got eight people on the lot was to put the boolprop for 8 sims in a user startup cheat. Isn't that weird? I think it's buggier than they thought with the options.
Hook:
Quote from: sara_dippity on 2005 September 19, 06:25:25
This is copied from my graphics rules file.
There is also a lot of stuff in the graphics rules file about video cards. If you don't have enough video RAM or don't have a high enough level of video firmware processing, it can force your game to run at lower specs. These numbers can be different for various brands and models of video cards, and the information is much more difficult to dig out.
If your game only allows you limited options when you have high RAM and processor speed, it's the video card. And one thing that will definitely lower your options is having "integrated" video. If you don't have a separate video card you're outta luck.
Hook
sara_dippity:
I have an nVidia geforce fx 5200. Not totally top end, but not so low that I would expect only 2 to a party and the lowest graphics settings. That might force it to medium, but I can't see it forcing it to low.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: sara_dippity on 2005 September 19, 08:20:45
I have an nVidia geforce fx 5200. Not totally top end, but not so low that I would expect only 2 to a party and the lowest graphics settings. That might force it to medium, but I can't see it forcing it to low.
I can. I formerly used an FX5600. It chugged. Horribly. Back in TS2 Original. Given that Nightlife is much more horribly bloated and inefficient, this outcome does not surprise me.
Danni:
My FX 5200 set everything to medium as default when I first installed Nightlife, and let me have 4 guests to parties. I upped all the settings as high as they can go, and it's still running extremely smoothly. I think I have the third most recent drivers.
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