Is it time for a new graphics card?

[Peachy]

http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=hvwgvq

[ManagerJosh]

I don't see why. Your card is on the lower end scale (not as low as the FX5200), but it's definitely one of the newer cards out there on the market.

[Mirelly]

Yeah I agree. I'd like to know why Peachy asked. Having problems, perhaps? I would think that card would perform toleraby well at generally medium settings but that 128MB video RAM will tend to limit performance on larger lots/larger families etc.

[Peachy]

Ok thanks guys! If you were wondering why I asked that question, it's because I can't build big houses w/ many objects like I did in TS1. (I love huge mansions and large families!)
The community lots also run pretty slow too, even with medium settings. Also, fast forwarding makes the game real choppy. I know people have worse cards than I do and they play just fine, so I thinks its best if I stay with the card I have right now. Maybe get a different one later on when the game gets more demanding.

[ManagerJosh]

I looked at your DxDiag, and something doesn't look right. Memory is allocated in factors of 2

ie 2x2^X = memory

so in your case

4 x 262144 (256MB) = 1048576 or 1024MB RAM. Your dxdiag shows only 1022MB of RAM, short 2MB.

While it is insignificant, it could mean several things. One thing to consider: memory is damaged.

If you have a moment I suggest running Memtest (http://www.memtest.org/) overnight and see if any errors appear. If errors do appear, then there's something wrong with your memory. If no errors appear, back to the drawing board for me :)

[Flameback777]

DirectX is known for having problems calculating the total RAM amount. (Mine says 1022MB too.)