to install, or not to install...
Ness:
that was my old computer... the one we are madly attempting to upgrade to XP was running nightlife beautifully before the upgrade...
the only thing that cheesed me off is that with the base game and uni all my settings were at the highest available... adding NL dropped me down to medium everything and turned my reflections off in the default settings!
I've since turned reflections back on, and I'm leaving the graphics options at medium - the game runs faster and I get less odd graphics corruption - every so often I would get weird spikes coming off my sims and leaving odd trails over the screen - it's not listed as one of the known issues with my graphics card and would go away when I saved the game - haven't seen it at all since installing nightlife...
I think "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" sum up the situation quite beautifully...
Ness
Ness:
and there's a thought...
the uncooperative graphics card in question is an ATI Radeon 9600 with 128M DDR - anyone got one working under XP?
Note: I don't know a great deal about computer hardware (my husband is the techy in the family, I leave it to him!), I'm just reading from the box, and I'm fully aware of the fact that I may have left out some vital piece of information there... just let me know and I'll read that off too!
Ness
Motoki:
Quote from: ness on 2005 September 28, 02:05:52
the only thing that cheesed me off is that with the base game and uni all my settings were at the highest available... adding NL dropped me down to medium everything and turned my reflections off in the default settings!
NL has done that to pretty much everyone I've come across, including people with really new and recent video cards. I think it's a bug in the way it identifies what card you have. I don't think it's any reflection on your video card and a 9600 should be just fine. It's a Directx 9 capable card and it definitely can do the reflections.
witch:
I've been on winxp pro for about 18 months now, I also had to be dragged kicking and screaming from win98, though I spent about 12 months on win2k on the way. My b/f is a tech and told me that winME is the worst MS OS for gaming, so I never went there.
I miss win98 for the games I cannot run on winxp, even under the supposed win98 compatibility mode, most 98 era games don't work for me. I was going to partition my hard drive and install win98 as well, but apparently win98 will go nuts if you have over 768Mb RAM, necessitating hacking the OS to make it believe there is less RAM. I'll get round to it one day. :-\
I like winxp and find it is very stable, no problems there. It is definitely bloatware and chews up more system resources than win98, but I like all the extra modern compatibility with hardware drivers etc. Though I turn off a lot of the pretty, resource-hungry stuff like menu animations etc.
If you go back to win98, you might like to try win98lite, written by an Australian bloke I think, takes IE out of the core of the OS (where MS stuck it to make IE essential), win98 runs much leaner and meaner, I had a lot of success with win98lite and improved performance.
Hook:
Quote from: witch on 2005 September 28, 05:31:16
My b/f is a tech and told me that winME is the worst MS OS for gaming, so I never went there.
I miss win98 for the games I cannot run on winxp, even under the supposed win98 compatibility mode, most 98 era games don't work for me.
Two sentences, right next to each other, and people *still* don't notice. The irony is amazing.
Witch, your win98 games will run with no problems under WinME. I'm not suggesting you get WinME, but I *am* suggesting that there's a worse MS OS for gaming.
There's nothing wrong with your boyfriend beyond being unduly influenced by Ziff-Davis.
Hook
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