Seasons is crashing
Cons:
MutantBunny
No won't help me but maybe others. :) I have AC97 sound. My sound glitch seems to have been caused by the video driver. (Yes that can happen)
However creative sound cards can be another horse. Which reminds me, to ask my son if he's updated his for his audigy. He usually does, but he lost sound in WOW. Possible a WOW patch doesn't like his drivers. He has sound everywhere else.But I'm not going there. He's a pretty good Computer tech in his own right.But right now he's baffled. So as you see not always EA Sim2 causing weird things to happen.
Lorelei
I found that ATI has begin to update drivers for laptops. So you might want to check. Before only the manufacturer of your laptop had any driver updates. Nvidia I don't think has started providing laptop video drivers yet. Or at least I didn't find anything saying they had on the first search.
Lorelei:
Quote from: Cons on 2007 March 15, 14:50:05
Lorelei,
Laptops are different critters. They weren't ever built to play these type of games. Wasn't their purpose. They do use different video cards in them than in desktops. Laptop processors and Video cards are special because of power issues.Even the HDD are different. If your ordering parts for them they have to be "Laptop" parts.
Everything put in them has to be able to use low power. After all they have to be able to run on batteries more than a few minutes. You buy a laptop because you want to be able to take it with you and use it anywhere. That means places where there are no outlets.
Absolutely correct. So I consider it a victory that I managed to finally get Sims 2 to run on mine. Took a newer driver, but it finally works (knock wood). All EPs, two SPs, med-high settings, lots of mods/hacks, overly large downloads folder that I'm actively paring down.
Cons:
Lorelei,
That is a victory. Good work. :) Sometime though others with laptops may not be as fortunate. Depending on who built the laptop and if they update the drivers for the unit.
As I said above, ATI is starting to put some Laptop Video drivers up for Download.They can always check and see if their Notebook is listed. Those with Nvidia cards aren't going to be so lucky. Those are still left up to the manufacturer of the Notebook.
Cons:
Here's a site that lets you figure out how big a PSU you need to run everything in your computer.
They're updating the calculator at the moment, but it should be an interesting experience for everyone to put the numbers in.(No not for Notebook users) A PSU that's too small can cause lots of headaches too.
http://www.journeysystems.com/power_supply_calculator.php
Tyraa Rane:
Quote from: Cons on 2007 March 15, 14:50:05
Lorelei,
Laptops are different critters. They weren't ever built to play these type of games. Wasn't their purpose. They do use different video cards in them than in desktops. Laptop processors and Video cards are special because of power issues.Even the HDD are different. If your ordering parts for them they have to be "Laptop" parts.
Everything put in them has to be able to use low power. After all they have to be able to run on batteries more than a few minutes. You buy a laptop because you want to be able to take it with you and use it anywhere. That means places where there are no outlets.
But there are "desktop replacement" laptops and laptops built specifically with gaming in mind. Mine is a desktop replacement rig...crap battery life (about 2 hours) and weighs 10 lbs, but it's taken every game I've thrown at it so far.
Theoretically ATI doesn't support driver updates on it, either (Mobility Radeon card)--their detection software kept saying my computer wasn't compatible. I went with a late '06 set of drivers I dug out of the depths of Google instead of the '07 set ATI had posted...they work great. And no, I don't get support from EA either, since I'm running the game on an "unsupported" system...but why would I want help from them anyway? They'd just tell me to delete my custom content and reinstall. ::)
It's entirely possible to get TS2 running--well--on a laptop if you're willing to shell out the money. And stay away from Nvidia.
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