Worse performance with better graphics card on The Sims 2
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My girlfriend had a ATI Radeon 9600 on her computer and The Sims 2 wasn't working very well. I bought her ATI X1950pro and the game is playing now even worse. Anyone have any suggestions why this seems to be happening? Both cards are AGP and the CPU is AMD Sempron 2800+. Someone had like 300 score from 3DMark06 and I got 3500 with the new graphics card so the card is definitely better but it didn't boost the performance on The Sims 2. Drivers are the newest from ATI, Omega's didn't work any better.
I've heard that old games running on newer systems put more load on the Cpu than the Gpu...
a 3 second glance at google, seems like her Cpu is pretty average...
[url]http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download[/url]
Run that, it may help.. maybe.
also, just noticed, you've power lurked :v:
Does it happen in other games? What's the BIOS AGP speed setting? Does Catalyst control center recognise all the ram on the device or less?
I always though you had to render games like that in software mode instead of hardware, like with Simcity 4.
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;26699298]I've heard that old games running on newer systems put more load on the Cpu than the Gpu...
a 3 second glance at google, seems like her Cpu is pretty average...
[URL]http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download[/URL]
Run that, it may help.. maybe.
also, just noticed, you've power lurked :v:[/QUOTE]
I'll try that, thanks. I don't contribute much but I'm reading forums every day :v:.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;26699304]Does it happen in other games? What's the BIOS AGP speed setting? Does Catalyst control center recognise all the ram on the device or less?[/QUOTE]
Bios says 8x as I think it should say. Bios also says that the card is 256mb but CCC says it's 512mb so I don't know about that.
[QUOTE=Swilly;26700630]I always though you had to render games like that in software mode instead of hardware, like with Simcity 4.[/QUOTE]
I have never understood Simcity 4. Great game, but its incredibly picky with how it will run. My friend has a relatively new Toshiba laptop, and the game crashes within an hour. Same with his old Athlon XP system.
But I played it on a Pentium II for a few hours. It was slow, but never crashed once. And it plays fine on my new computer, but I have to set the shadows to medium in order for it to not get choppy as hell when scrolling.
How can I check the game if it's running with software or hardware rendering? All the graphic settings are working normally so I think the game runs with hardware rendering, I don't think it should be played with software rendering.
[QUOTE=Aniska;26700924]How can I check the game if it's running with software or hardware rendering? All the graphic settings are working normally so I think the game runs with hardware rendering, I don't think it should be played with software rendering.[/QUOTE]If the game allows it, it will normally be in the graphics options.
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