Troubleshooting The Sims 2 System Requirements

Nah it doesnt look like it. The RAM is to low for one thing. And what Video Card do you have? You can check the required system specs for the Sims 2 here.

 

I'm not very good with computers at all!!!
Do you know if i were to buy 256mb twinmos and 256mb samsung RAM if my memory would be ok? haha i don't think that makes sense at all.

thanks for your reply.

 

Thank you!
I have bought some more RAM and will probably buy a new video card also so it will run better.

 

Okay, I'm going to ask the experts about whether we've got enough power to run the Sims2 on our computer...I didn't think we would but after reading the spec page now am wondering...We have the following:

AMD 1200/266 CPU
Asus A7A266 Motherboard
256 MB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 7200 32 MB Video card
Maxtor 40GB Hard Drive

Hmmm, is that enough information for all you die-hard computer fans to tell me yes or no?

 

Your video card is actually 64MB. It also has T&L. Your computer should work fine with the processor and RAM you have, although a upgrade of either one of these would spruce up the game.
Copter.

 

Ya that computer is pretty much at the lowest end of the spectrum. Its just at the minimum requirements.

 

what about me... I would like to know how well I could run the sims 2...any1 who knows about how the game runs reply...plz dont compare to system specs...i hear they arent that accurate....
AMD Athlon 2200+
768 MB RAM
NVIDIA G-FORCE 5600 w/ 256 MB video RAM
Windows XP w/ SP1

PLZ REPLY

 

Yahoo!! Thank you, thank you!! Now that I know that I can at least try the game out I will have to head to the nearest computer store with money in my hot little hands for TS2...Now to get some days off work and hope they aren't all sold out before I can grab my copy! Thanks for all the help/advice guys!!

 

No problem, post again if you need any more help
Copter.

 

minimum specs wrong i think

I've installed sims 2 on a Pc with follow specs out of curousity
and it worked well, in that it was playable :-

Pentium II 350mhz
192mb sd ram
Geforce 2mx 32MB (agp x2 board)
XP pro
40Gb drive


so i imagine the minimum specs to be a little high then.

 

Here's a couple of system requirements that don't show up on the box.

Page 70 of the manual states:

"If your system is running anti-virus or crash guard programs you will need to close or disable them to run The Sims 2. To do this, find the icon . . . . ..

and

"Once anti-virus and crhash guard programs have been disabled, you should end all unnecessary general background tasks."

They suggest that you use Task Manager to close EVERY process (excluding System, Local Services, or Network service groups) except for explorer.exe or taskmgr.exe.

So, those of us who are connected to the internet through highspeed are expected to disable our virus protection while playing the game????? Preposterous. Opening ourselves to tons of problems, yes? I suppose we can unplug from the wall socket to disable internet, but come on. This is crazy.

If I saw that warning on the box, I wouldn't have bought the product. Now that I own it, and feel that it is unreasonable to run such a program that makes you disable virus protection, I can't return it.

Any thoughts???

 

I suppose I didn't have to do that either, but I was following instructions in order to make sure I did it correctly.

Bottom line is that Maxis is suggesting that we turn off virus protection. I see that as a SIGNIFICANT issue.

Those of us who don't fear computers can work around these things, but what about all the huddled masses who go by the letter of the law because they don't know there may be options.

These are the people who open themselves to real problems when they are instructed to "take off their condoms and have unprotected sex".

Just my two cents.

 

Please, help !!

I noticed that a lot of people like me had the same problem with their video cards, which were not considered as compatible with DirectX 9.0c by their system, when they tried to start the game The Sims2. I followed your instructions, it means that I downloaded the latest driver for my video card and I reinstalled DirectX 9.0c on my computer. I think my card has upgraded, because the control pannel isn't the same anymore and it seemed that everything was ready to make the game work. But no !!!! I still receive that message before the game begin : No compatible graphics found on your system for DirectX 9.0c. I have a Gigabyte Maya Radeon 9000 pro with AGP bus, VGA driver, and the last driver from ATI... My OS is XP, what can I do now ? For three days I've been looking for a solution but in vain. Please, advise me something. Txs

 

I don't know of any software way to disable internet. I could unplug the cable modem, but other than that I don't know how to.


Windows 2000 on one machine, windows XP on another

 

YOU BRAG WAY TO MUCH!!!!! NOBODY CARE WHAT YOUR COMPUTER IS LIKE OR IF ITS HIGH END OHLALA! NOBODY CARES!! STOP BRAGGING!

 

Umm.... what? She said that on like a side note.