O.......M......G / Oh my god Why!!!!! My Sims is really slow now that i installed seasons but why!!!! i have a top-end computer $5700 AUD. Its ok when theres not many ppl in the lot. but now that i combined households its really slow in there. Not only that but my sims 2 did Slow down heaps as soon as i installed sims 2 not just in lots full of ppl. I have 1T of space (1000 gigs) and 2 gigs of super speed super expensive ram! Help Help me plz Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz Memory: 2046MB RAM Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Card name: 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX Extreme in SLI mode Display Memory: 1499 MB Driver Version: 7.15.0011.6369 (English) Hard drive space: 1T (1000 gigs)
It is common that Seasons is one of the slowest expansion packs out there. Not sure if there is much you can do.
The other bad news is that TS2 was not written for multi-core processors (nor Vista) so it is likely that the game is running through only one of those 4 cores ... at 750 MHz ... and since your awesome graphics cards rely on the cpu to feed them the raw data they need .... :(
Each individual core I believe runs at at 3.0GHz, Mirelly. It would defeat the purpose of having multiple cores in a 3GHz Processor with each running at 750MHz each because essentially that's slower than having one giant processor 3GHz.
Ah ... well, I can't argue, but it wasn't how I understood the quoted clock speeds of multi-core processors. However, this seems to make sense:
its just laggy. when i try to move from one side of the map wid my arrow keys it lags. somtimes not to much but its annoying
Not only that but now when i lowered everything to its minimum on options including resolution. It was exactly the same or even worse.
The question is what circumstances though too Mirelly. PC Games will run faster under certain conditions. If it was an operating system not designed to handle or recognize multiple cores, then yes the performance would indeed suffer. It would probably just recognize it a single core and it will be chugging along doing its tasks like any older processor with a single core on there. While there are additional cores to handle additional processing, they aren't being utilized to process information. Plus applications itself needs to be able to able to send things into multiple threads. Teffy, at this point in time, my best suggestion is to run Sims 2 under Compatibility Mode in Vista. Locate the EXE file for Sims 2, right click the .exe file and select properties. Select the compatibility tab. From the drop down menu, select Windows XP (Service Pack 2). Click Apply and launch the game. If that doesn't help, consider also revisiting the compatibility tab and disabling visual themes, and desktop composition. It's gonna be a hit and miss so you might have to fiddle around with the settings a bit to figure out what works for you the best. If that doesn't help, come back and let us know.
Basically it means that if switching to compatibility mode and setting it to Windows XP Service Pack 2 doesn't really help too much, go back to that compatibility tab where you set the compatibility mode to Windows XP and disable visual themes and/or desktop composition. I don't know one or the other or both will work better, so I'm recommending you try and see which settings you prefer.
Try updating your nVidia drivers. It's slightly out of date www.nvidia.com Also, be sure you have the latest patches from TheSims2.com as well http://thesims2.ea.com/update/
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