TS2 and Windows 7
ancienthighway:
Nalia, I've had no problem with my neighborhoods ported over to Win 7.
Nalia:
Quote from: ancienthighway on October 30, 2009, 02:02:56 pm
Nalia, I've had no problem with my neighborhoods ported over to Win 7.
I am talking about installint from scratch; as I am keeping my current pc as it is, I'm not upgrading from XP to Win 7 -- I'll buy a new copy of Win 7 for my new... piece of art. lol
We are meaning the same process, right?
Then, thanks again, this is a *big* relief. For I'm tired running TS2 with shaders off and my pc groaning every time I get over 4.2 GB of CC. This is time I'm going for the best quad Athlon can give me *waiting excitedly for December*
ancienthighway:
Pretty much so. I upgraded from XP 32-bit to Win7 64-bit, so I was basically a clean custom install. Even though TS2 is a 32-bit game, I recommend installing the 64-bit OS. The housekeeping tasks, and other background programs you have that run 64-bit won't take memory TS2 could potentially use.
Nalia:
And 64-bit it will be! My current pc, built 5 years or more ago, is for 64-bit but the Win XP I had bought before building my current pc was 32. Last time I did something horrible to my pc and myself: bought only 1 GB RAM and when I wanted to upgrade technology had made DDR sticks almost useless -- and hard to find.
As I want to keep my current neighbourhood and Sims (3/4 made by me and 1/4 downloaded) I am unwilling to move them if there is going to be trouble. I hope this thread to stay alive long enough, for, once I built my new pc and go for TS2 Move In operation, I will let you know how it went. :)
mrranger:
Quote from: ancienthighway on October 23, 2009, 01:11:12 pm
I was quite happy with XP myself. However, Microsoft wanted to shut down XP when Vista was released. Unfortunately for them, Vista was a piece of crap and businesses shunned it. Windows 7 is supposed to have corrected the problems businesses had with Vista, and if that's the case, XP support will be shut down.
Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit is a biggie for me. My old box had 4 GB of RAM, but any 32-bit operating system will only use 3 GB. The addresses for the rest is beyond the capability of 32-bit I believe. My new box has 8 GB of RAM which is now fully used with the 64-bit OS.
I've been running TS2 all all morning without any problems. In fact I was having so much fun doing so, I forgot to add my tweaks to the Program Files. ;D
to be exact windows xp 32 bit or windows vista 32 bit will only see 3.25 GB of ram regardless on how much you have.
for example you have 10 gb of ram on a machine that has windows xp 32 bit, windows xp will only see 3.25 of your 10 gb of ram.
on the other hand, windows xp 64 bit and windows vista/windows 7 64 bit will see all 10 gb out of 10 gb of ram.
just because the operating system only sees 3.25 gb of ram doesn't mean it will only use 3.25 gb of ram. it will use all 10 gb of ram but it will only see 3.25 gb of it. :cool:
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