Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
Annette:
Back to the lag 'sigh'.....I added another gig of ram so now I have 2gig on a P4 3.2ghz 7600 GS video card with 256 ram. Well above spec's I think but I'm still getting up to 5 seconds of lag. That's in a vanilla game, I moved the TS2 folder to desktop and let the game make a new one just to be sure. My game computer is not on the internet and so the launcher at the start just has the play option, no mention of get updates or anything else.
As I only had one sim to follow on the Twikki Hotel lot I had a good chance to see what else was going on. Every time the lag happened some fool was starting a water balloon fight. Coincidence? Possibly, but I'm on the look out for a hack that blasts this behaviour just to check.
witch:
Yes, I should have said it was hail, this is the first time I have ever seen hail so I hadn't seen that behaviour before.
Madame Mim:
I'd forgotten all about the launcher until the first time I started the game and Lavasoft Firewall asked me if I wanted to let it access the internet. Hell, no, never, no-way, uh-uh.
But I haven't played yet. I only loaded the game last night to turn CC on (I've removed the confirmed incompatible CC, updated where possible, and will wait and see what falls over in a screaming heap - I am not a sheeple I am play testing - I keep telling myself that in an effort to create a feeling of self-worth). In any case I'll report back to see what kind of lag increase I do or do not get on Vacation lots.
dusty:
As a random aside that someone might find useful, the control pets cheats appear to allow you to control invited 'visitor' sims when on vacation. I have those cheats in my userstartup file, and when playing without hacks, I had the Calientes invite Don Lothario on a vacation. I could control his every move, and I think it's because of the pet cheats.
sloppyhousewife:
Maybe it's the launcher that causes most of the lag - denying access to the internet doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't *try* to phone home during the whole play session.
I redirected the shortcut to the sims2ep6.exe right after installation, and I've just been playing BV for approx. 5 hours without any noticable (sp.?) lag. I have to add, though, that there's no other application (firewall etc.) running in the background, either, because the game is installed on a computer with no connection to the internet. This might also make a difference.
@ dusty: Hm... that's interesting... *makesnote*
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