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The Sims 2. Can it run well?

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First post, by ElDavo

Posted on 2018-10-31, 13:41

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Hello!

I am running the sims 2 on my windows xp machine (q6600@2.6ghz 2gbddr2 and an ati x1800) seems to me these specs should far exceed anything the sims 2 would ever need yet whenever going to a busy area the game is so choppy that it is barely playable 🙁

Does anyone have any tips for what i could do to improve it? Or build some kind of ultimate sims 2 machine :p

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Reply 1 of 5, by oeuvre

Posted on 2018-10-31, 21:37

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Try bumping up your RAM to 3 or 4GB

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Reply 2 of 5, by ElDavo

Posted on 2018-10-31, 23:11

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It should have enough ram, checking articles from back then people are strongly suggesting upgrading to 1gb of ram i've ordered 4gb of ram anyway so I'll install that and hope for the best. Can't really see what the bottleneck would be other than the program itself.

Reply 3 of 5, by BinaryDemon

Posted on 2018-10-31, 23:29

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I read that Sims2 performance can be very video driver dependent, you may want to try a few different versions and compare.

Check out DOSBox Distro:

https://sites.google.com/site/dosboxdistro/ [*]

a lightweight Linux distro (tinycore) which boots off a usb flash drive and goes straight to DOSBox.

Make your dos retrogaming experience portable!

Reply 4 of 5, by K1n9_Duk3

Posted on 2018-11-01, 22:05

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I have The Sims 2 (including all the expansions and stuff packs) installed on my XP machine with a Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM and a Radeon HD 4890. It's still choppy as hell in crowded areas, so I doubt installing more RAM and updating your video driver would help you all that much. This looks more like a design flaw in the engine itself to me, but I haven't actually tried to run the game on any faster systems.

Reply 5 of 5, by ElDavo

Posted on 2018-11-02, 11:49

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K1n9_Duk3 wrote:
I have The Sims 2 (including all the expansions and stuff packs) installed on my XP machine with a Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM and a Radeon HD 4890. It's still choppy as hell in crowded areas, so I doubt installing more RAM and updating your video driver would help you all that much. This looks more like a design flaw in the engine itself to me, but I haven't actually tried to run the game on any faster systems.

Yeah, I think you're right i've changed the processor to a higher clocked dual core and put in a much better graphics card and the performance is basically identical 🙁

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