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| Thread ID: 78588 | 2007-04-21 06:15:00 | Up-grading a CPU | meg_h_nz (6960) | Press F1 |
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| 542839 | 2007-04-22 12:05:00 | That be DDR1 im afraid... | Sherman (9181) | ||
| 542840 | 2007-04-22 12:19:00 | oh darn! Looks like my "built-to-order" pc is not going to be as up gradable as I first thought. Having said that it is 2 years old but having to replace the mother board and CPU and RAM and I need a new graphics card as well, I may as well start from scratch....... again I do have a groovy case :) |
meg_h_nz (6960) | ||
| 542841 | 2007-04-22 13:37:00 | Bad luck. I'm in the same boat. The positive however is that you can sell off your old PC as a full working system. | Greg (193) | ||
| 542842 | 2007-04-23 00:37:00 | oh darn! Looks like my "built-to-order" pc is not going to be as up gradable as I first thought. Having said that it is 2 years old but having to replace the mother board and CPU and RAM and I need a new graphics card as well, I may as well start from scratch....... again I do have a groovy case :) Why do you need to do all this, your pc looks like it falls into the top 10% of pc is the world.! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 542843 | 2007-04-23 02:31:00 | Well the reason is simple (but very SAD!) I love playing Sims2 and even though my pc is way over spec'ed for Sims2 for some reason it cant cope with it. (I have tried other games like Joan of Ark, Jedi Knight etc and they all struggle and then crash) (and I have updated all my drivers, many times, used alternate drivers, and much more to try and improve performance) After much research I discovered that Sims2 uses much more CPU power than I first thought, hence the reason I hoped to upgarde my CPU to a C2D hoping for a quick fix to my problem......... seems like I am doomed to Sim2 crashing for ever...... well until I can afford a new pc. I have been here, PressF1, before and had lots of advice but still none of the offered solutions fixed the problem... :( |
meg_h_nz (6960) | ||
| 542844 | 2007-04-23 04:55:00 | I was running Sims2 on a 1.8GHz P4... Not very well, but it was playable to an extent. And integrated Graphics on my GIgabyte board with 512mb RAM Something isnt right there, especially looking at your machines specs! Maybe you have dodgey RAM or something because your PC should handle games much more intensive than Sims 2. |
Enigmur (10547) | ||
| 542845 | 2007-04-23 05:21:00 | yeah something isn't right, you are way over system requirements for cpu / ram What about your video card - the usual suspect for these problems. The info I read is that video cards without the T&L feature require significantly more cpu to play sims, so if you have an older video card or are using onboard then thats likely to be the issue. the bare minmum card for playing modern games would be something like a 6200 (non TC) and a 7600GT would play just abut everything - sorry don't know equivalent ATI cards, at the top end an 8800GTS 320M version would kick arse - depends on wether you have AGP or PCI-E though The other thing to check is Video resolution and quality settings, turn off AA & AF and then try reducing resolution - too high a setting will kill almost any system |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 542846 | 2007-04-23 06:42:00 | Well the reason is simple (but very SAD!) I love playing Sims2 and even though my pc is way over spec'ed for Sims2 for some reason it cant cope with it. (I have tried other games like Joan of Ark, Jedi Knight etc and they all struggle and then crash) (and I have updated all my drivers, many times, used alternate drivers, and much more to try and improve performance) After much research I discovered that Sims2 uses much more CPU power than I first thought, hence the reason I hoped to upgarde my CPU to a C2D hoping for a quick fix to my problem......... seems like I am doomed to Sim2 crashing for ever...... well until I can afford a new pc. I have been here, PressF1, before and had lots of advice but still none of the offered solutions fixed the problem... :( The Sims 2 wont run any better on a C2D than it will on a 3.2GHz P4, something else is wrong with your PC. How old is your installation of Windows? Perhaps its time to reinstall windows and start from scratch. Can you describe the problems your having it more detail? Perhaps we can help get adequate performance in the Sims ;) |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 542847 | 2007-04-23 07:00:00 | Yes, I agree with the above 3 posts, crashing sounds like configuration issues. Crashing has nothing to do with system performance. X600XT is hardly cutting edge, gaming is all about graphics and system RAM. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 542848 | 2007-04-23 07:02:00 | a quick question regarding this. If the mobo was upgraded, would windows need to be re-installed as the new mobo would have a different chipset, cheers |
borax (7078) | ||
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