Please suggest a good Sims 2 Video Card
Braveheart:
Okay, I keep on trying....I deserve an 'A' for effort and patience if nothing else. Thinking that possibly something had hooped with my video card in the last while, I unistalled Nightlife and am back to running only Sims 2 and University. Guess what? All is fine! Graphics are great and running on maximum settings. No glitches, no reboots and no choppiness. It believe the issue is with the Nightlife expansion. What does Maxis expect us to do? Buy a new and improved system each time they release another expansion? I bought this video card specifically for the Sims2 and now its not going to work for it? Please, Maxis? Address this issue if at all possible. I am not the only one having these problems.
SimMoon:
My system is 4 years old and I had it built custom by Dell. Its almost time to upgrade, expand drive space, get better sound card, video card... in other words, buy a new tower.. but right now, I have this:
2.2 processor
512 memory
1000 mgs virtual memory
40 Giga HD
GeoForce 4 - 64 mg video card
Soundblaster 32 sound card
My computer runs High/Med for Uni. Graphics are good and I don't plan to upgrade anytime this year. Waiting for the sales in 2006 ;) . But I do like the Geoforce series and they wont cost you an arm and a leg.
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Motoki:
I honestly wouldn't worry too much about what the game thinks your settings should be. Most of the settings and resolutions you can turn up yourself and you can add a startup cheat file to always let you invite 8 sims. As long as you can run on high settings without much problems and the game lets you see cinemas and get reflections and bump maps and all that you should be good to go. NL seems to think my Athlon 64 3400 1 gig RAM and ATI X200 Express integrated video card with 128 MB RAM is a low to mid level setup but I've upped all the settings and added the cheat for 8 sims and have no problems.
NL's hardware identifying system is by no means perfect so I'd take it with a grain of salt personally.
DrBeast:
Quote from: Braveheart on 2005 October 01, 01:19:43
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.
Opening the case will not improve airflow, it'll only make it worse. Unless you pop a big fan blowing air onto your mainboard next to the open case, like I did with my old Celeron 1.8!
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