The Sims 2 is a RAM MONSTER?

[Polishwonder74]

Wow, I've got a whole 1GB of RAM and I think that The Sims 2 is using every bit of it! It stutters everytime a character changes clothes, or a car/truck shows up, and it takes like a minute or so to unload and get back to the desktop when I exit. Can anyone think of ways to get this to move a little quicker? I'm tihnking of doing a defrag tonight. What else can I do, and could it be something else other than maxxing out the RAM? (I'm running it on the machine in my siggeh, from my boot SATA hard drive)

btw, the game is so much fun it's SICK!!

 

[Algere]

I doubt a simple game like The Sims 2 would tax your RAM like that. To make sure it is or isn't your RAM I guess (if possible) you can ctrl+alt+del during a game and check your memory usage within task manager.

 

[glenn beck]

Hey I just got Sims 2 today, anybody have the problem of constant frame drop-outs? it seems very sluggish at time, with an x800pro 1280x1024, surely it should handle it with it
on high, but the darn thing drops like down to just a couple of frames every once and a while...

 

[Megatomic]

I've heard that the X800 series of cards is problematic with The Sims 2 man. Look for a fix in the next set of drivers. I don't think the new 4.10s fixed any Sims 2 problems.

 

[glenn beck]

thanx for the info Mega

 

[episodic]

Hmm runs smooth on a Radeon 9200 here

 

[Schadenfroh]

has... the patch...... been built yet?

 

[Hadsus]

The game seems to be a resource pig.....I got a gig and a 3 ghz processor and radeon 9800 pro. It doesn't slow down like you describe but I thought I'd get better performance since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot going on the screen at one time. I agree it's a good game....better than I expected.

 

[CVSiN]

The game is very demanding on ram and CPU and vid cards..
the new engine is built for top end systems it seems...

A64 3400 2 gigs of Ram 6800GT SATA barracudas and XP and it runs ok.. definatly not as smooth as even Doom3...

pretty strange.

 

[bamacre]

Poor coding.

 

[sswingle]

It did that with 256 mb memory, but when I got my rma'd 512 back and put that in, the game works MUCH better. Other specs: Radeon 9800, AMD Athlon 3000+

 

[Modeps]

With a game like the sims, jitters really dont matter too much. I get them now and again but I'm not really all that worried about it... nor all that interested in fixing it. I'm too busy dealing with my virtual family's needs.

 

[Polishwonder74]

True, jittery-ness isn't the worst thing in the Sims, but it wears you down when you're trying to scroll around your house and it starts skipping and freezing like crazy because a truck pulled up, or especially when a fire starts in your oven and you've gotta handle the problem ASAP.

Somehow, I thought with my hot new Radeon 9800, I'd be silky smooth, but this is seriously reminding me of when I ran the Sims 1 on my old Athlon 700 w/ Matrox G400. I realize that this is apples & oranges though, the sequel uses a LOT more nice video effects.

So I guess the only people with real smooth gameplay are you A64 fellas with $600 graphics cards. Anyone else have a similar experience, or tips on how to smooth this out a little more without dropping $120 on another GB of RAM?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

is there no way to turn the eyecandy down or are we just being stuborn?

 

[Polishwonder74]

Oh, absolutely. It's right there, hit the little ... button and hit the display settings. You can crank the eye candy right down.