Topic: Gaming Steve Sim Cruise - Planning and question thread

[LadyM]

'tis good, I just did an upgrade on my video card and added extra RAM.

[Hydromancerx]

'tis good, I just did an upgrade on my video card and added extra RAM.

LOL I just did that too and my games don't crash anymore

[gec05]

So what's your current specs?

[LadyM]

Me? 4MB ram and a GTX8800 Nvidia card. I'm also going to be using the desktop not laptop for this game.

[PatMan33]

Very nice! Ever since I upgraded I went from 4 gigs of RAM to 2 gigs and even though the equipment is better the problems are still the same without the extra RAM I'm used to.

[Hydromancerx]

I jumped from 1 gig to 8 gigs of RAM

[eropS]

..... where do you guys get the motherboards for that much ram? I can only have a MAX of 2 gigs...

[PatMan33]

4 gigs is more or less standard, at least it has been for the last few years. High denominations of RAM though are becoming much more common though. I forget which one it was, but there was a Mac a few years ago that had enough ports to hold 16 gigs of RAM or something ridiculous like that. Really though, if your other hardware isn't powerful enough to back up a large amount of RAM you will bottleneck and your computer will run poorly. It's all about finding the balance.

[Brandonazz]

I work off two gigs and don't have any problems with high-end games.

Of course I don't play first persons often, but I run Crysis on medium. It doesn't bother me in the least.

[gec05]

But with a game like the Sims 2 and if you have a lot of expansion packs, loading becomes a pain.

[PatMan33]

Building your town!

Populating the lake!

Slipping roofies to the dates!

Cleaning the pets!

Stocking the stores!

Reticulating the splines!

[emmet]

Dunno about you, but I have 6 of the 7 Sims 2 EPs and 2 Gigs of RAM, and a cheap processor. I have various other large games installed too, but I am still in a house in Sims 2 5 minutes after starting the game up.

[gec05]

You know what? Forget what I said about my experience. I forgot that crappy PC had only 512 MB RAM.

[Huckbuck]

I remember playing Sims 1 with all x'cept 1 xon the computer I had back then, the loading screen with the logo in the begining took more than 5 minutes. But that comp was REALLY sucky. And my screen was so old that it had begun to get darker then normaly, it looked like night all the time when playing Sims :S

[Hydromancerx]

But with a game like the Sims 2 and if you have a lot of expansion packs, loading becomes a pain.

I agree my loading time with the expansions plus all the custom content became insane. But now it loads much better and fast. Plus with the new video card i can now have the setting all the way up with no lag plus i can see things i could not before such as the fish swimming in the ponds and fish tanks.