 Am I Able to Run Sims 2? |
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 May 31 2009, 08:40 PM
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This is just the hardware for my laptop, I'll post the info of the hardware on my desktop later. If you need me to post some other hardware then please inform me of it. CPU: Intel Celeron M CPU 420 CPU Speed: 1.60 GHz System RAM: 894 MB OS: Windows XP Video Card: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Also are there any tips on making the game run smoothly even with the right hardware? I know I should exit out of all programs (Except Anti-Virus). I killed some processes I know that don't need to be running in task manager also. Here's the info for my desktop: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 CPU CPU Speed: 1.69 GHz System RAM: 894 MB OS: Windows XP Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT My desktop feels really sluggish though..I don't have THAT many processes running. I installed a new video card, it works but sometimes when I boot up it stays on a black screen before coming up to the welcome screen and I have to reboot sometimes several times to get it working. Also I have 3 different hard drives on it, all connected by an IDE cable. I really don't know what's the problem. On the local hard drive (C:/) I have 15 GB out of 30 GB free space, sounds like plenty to me. My desktop is pretty clean of programs too. I have no idea what the problem is. It's not a virus either. |
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Jun 1 2009, 08:21 PM
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 Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,825 Joined: 28-September 06 From: New York Member No.: 87,553 |
You'll definitely be able to run sims 2 on your desktop, it will probably be a bit sluggish though. I can't guarantee it will run on your laptop, but it will run better on your desktop.
Have you defragged your hard drives lately? Also, how is your boot order set in the BIOS? You should have the hard drive with your installation of windows set to boot before the other hard drives. --------------------  "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 |
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Jun 1 2009, 08:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 17-December 08 From: Pennsylvania Member No.: 270,908 |
Go to Can You Run It? to test.
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Jun 1 2009, 09:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 13-April 09 Member No.: 320,668 |
Thank you for the responses and input. It runs particularly fine on my laptop as I just tried it now. I kind of don't want to play it on my desktop because the fans make wayy too much noise now, to the point where it's severely irritating (Even if I have no programs running at all). I just defragged my dekstop but not my laptop yet, will do that this week. I'm not sure if my local HDD is on the highest priority in the boot order but I'll check soon.
Thank you again. |
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Jun 4 2009, 11:41 AM
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 Authorized Microsoft Rep Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 19-February 09 From: Redmond, Washington, USA Member No.: 298,047 |
How'd the defrags go? They should have cleared things up a bit for you, but if you're experiencing high fan speeds, that's probably speaking to the fact that you're operating at the top of your processing and graphics processing capabilities.
Cheers, -------------------- |
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Jun 17 2009, 09:01 PM
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Sims 2 was still sluggish for me with these specs:
Intel Dual Core 2.8Ghz 2GB Ram 512mb ATi Graphics with Pixel Shader 2.0 support even tried 3GB ram upgrade and it was still sluggish. Since the sims 3 came out i got it and put it on and its sluggish. I find I keep getting this slight pause every 30 seconds during game play and it drives me nuts. Sims 2 (and even Sims 3) on a Mac runs much better with these specs: iMac (June 2008) Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz 4GB Ram 256 ATi Pro Grpahics. |
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