Improving The Sims 2 Performance on iBook

[whitex]

Hi!
I've got The Sims 2 for Mac and I used to play it on my iBook G4 1.42 Ghz. I got tired of it for 2 reasons:

- The game crashed with apparently no reason (usually when it was loading something more demanding)
- It runs very, very slow, specially in "life mode"

I know that the problem is mostly because of iBook's weak graphic card (32mb). I also know it is not possible to change it. So, I considered adding more RAM. But then just popped into my mind: Will it actually works?
I mean, iBook comes with 512Mb RAM. If I change to 1Gb, will it make any difference? Thanks!

[Erica]

I'm sure doubling your ram will make a noticable difference. What you could also do is, in the game intself, bring up the settings menu and put all the graphics settings at the lowest possible level.

As for the crashing, have you tried downloading and installing a patch?