Please suggest a good Sims 2 Video Card
kryptmoon:
I hope some of this information can help so that someone can get down to the bottom of this.
I have a Radeon 9600XT 256mb
AMD Athlon 2600XP CPU
2 Gigs DDR Ram
80 Gig HD w/40 free space
Win XP Pro Svc.Pack 2
300 Watt Power Supply
Most Updated Drivers for ATI Catalyst
Before Nightlife everything ran on high and absolutely no probs. except that I was going to update CPU anyway for smoothness in gameplay.
After the installation of NL, my settings changed (which I read that this was supposed to happen because Maxis enhanced the Video Graphics etc. etc.)
So I changed all my settings back to normal (high) and did not have a problem with gameplay except that I noticed my custom skins were not defined and a little cartoonish. So I raised the resolution in game after that every thing was crystal clear and beautiful....until...my pc crashed and rebooted in the neighborhood screen. My first thought was, I thought there was a spike in my house...until it happened again. My second thought was okay Maxis changed the graphic specs requirement so I lowered the setting to medium trying to accomodate..it crashed again and this time it also crashed on a Lot with the neighborhood view on.The neighborhood also looked funky(flashing houses and Terrain turning white.
Immediately I thought it was my drivers. (I had just updated my video drivers. I've always used Omega beta drivers for performance)I figured it could have been a glitch w/the beta drivers so I uninstalled and replaced w/ATI Radeon Catalyst most recent.
Well, it stopped crashing in the neighborhood screen so I thought that was it. But just the other day it rebooted in one of the lots when I was trying to show my daughter the new neighborhood view.
I am NOT an expert but I see alot of people going out and updating their video cards(which is all good) but I wonder if the problem lies in the CPU. It seems that Nightlife is making the CPU work harder and it only happens when I have the neighborhood view on. Also since I changed the drivers to it's original maker it stopped rebooting in Neeighborhood screen. Which tells me The drivers that I had before(were set for high performance) was too much for my CPU.
I have ordered a new power supply 550wt and new CPU 3200XP which I did not install yet. So for now I play w/mostly med. settings and no neighborhood view(which really sucks...the whole point of NL, to me anyway.)
Someone on this thread said that the games auto detections for your comp. specs is not being read right. This makes alot of sense since I never had a prob. before NL, my system is not shit and supposedly it meets and surpasses requirements. Hmmmm Don't think it's supposed to be rebooting w/neighborhood view on, which is a huge feature in this expansion.
Hope a Maxoid is reading this thread and can give conclusive answers to this prob that many of us are having. :-\ :'(
Baa:
I've got an ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB video memory.
Game runs fine.
Looks excellent with graphic effects all the way up. I just need more ram because it gets slow at times.
And there's a problem with the cinematics. Sometimes the sound is slower than their actions, or sometimes the whole cinematic is choppy and will jump ahead a few hundred frames and the sound will still lag behind.
Scotty:
I have a Radion 9600 PRO. 256 MBs The game runs awsome with everything set to high. Im pretty happy with it. :)
MokeyHokey:
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but the other man said that no matter what card you have, NL will not let you have more than two people for a party.
Well, I just tested it with Brandi and Darren's wedding party, and was able to invite 8 guests. :-\ So I guess it's not a universal bug, and still does depend to some extent on the computer.
Braveheart:
My tech checked everything out with my card and discovered my fan wasn't working properly so I had him fix that. Brought the comp home today and still have choppy graphics. I am even running it with the case open thinking it might be airflow problems, but that is not it. Wondering if what Kryptmoon said has some merit to it. Before Nightlife, I have never had a problem with my graphics card (Geforce FX5200 128mb) Since Nightlife, I get spontaneous reboots, neighborhood view "earthquakes" (the graphics shake back and foth really fast), the edge and arrow key scrolling is choppy. I really cannot afford a new card but I also am NOT able to play the game as it is! What has chaged with Nightlife? My specs are more than adequate(2.2 ghz P4, 1024mb RAM, 80gb hardrive only 50% full and of course the video card mentioned above. Someone? A Maxoid? Please help...I can't even play the game anymore and I am obviously not the only one with these kind of problems.
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