Game play issues
ange1face20:
WOW..okay after reading your reply Beosboxboy I feel stupid. I had NO idea that so much went into just playing the sims. I mean I recently found out as far as poly-count, but everything else that you mentioned above I'd never even considered. I do however have ALOT of things in my Downloads folder, because I'm a girl, and I LOVE pretty things, and I like for my sims houses to be decorated just as if you were to decorate a REAL home, but I didn't know that having lots of stuff in your Downloads folder can effect game play also.
Ugh and yes I also have several EPs, but after Pets, I've decided to not purchase anymore that come out. I did have a chance to look over the link that Veash supplied, in which that was very helpful, because I learned several other things there too, and when I looked up "video cards", I didnt' know they could be so expensive. I did however try some of the other steps off the link, as far as "moving" some of my sims families and not having all of them living so closely together. And as much as I don't want to, I guess I'm going to have to go over my Downloads folder and maybe clean it out. And as far as "memory", I have a brand new, but still seems to me to be crappy, Gateway comp, that I think only offers 256 MB of memory, I don't know alot about computers.
And I'm down in Texas, but thankyou Beosboxboy for ALL of your info..lol still trying to understand it, but thanks just the same.
BeosBoxBoy:
Angelface: you aren't stupid, you are uninformed, which is considerably different. To the uninformed a computer is very much like having a god in a box that grants our wishes, as computers are made more and more user-friendly through games and user-friendly operating systems and programmes, it becomes less and less obvious that there are more moving parts. Much like sitting at the steering wheel of an automobile can hide from us the very busy bits of the engine and transmission. All we see are some few bits we interact with and the countryside go by; and, just like a car, we often discover and begin to consider all these hidden moving parts only when something goes wrong.
Computer sales people and game hucksters feed us a steady stream of disinformation and dazzle us with meaningless jargon and numbers. It is no wonder why so many people regard the interior portions of their computers with grave distrust when you consider the fact that the people involved in sales make the purchasing experience as much like buying a worthless insurance policy or used car as is humanly possible.
Game hucksters don't inform us of the moving parts because they full well understand most people would not listen and the few that did would ask questions they don't want to answer... like, did you thoroughly beta test that feature? They most assuredly do not thoroughly beta test anything these days, they run it all out to market so we will up-end our wallets and credit cards over their money bags and fill them with ever-so-lovely 10s, 20s, 50s, and 100s. Then they wait for us to scream "it's broken!" then they drag their feet and release a bug patch roughly parallel with the next EP and misdirect our attention through a time-proved method of bait and switch so we end up getting a bigger system or new video card or higher amounts of system RAM and they poopoo us for using incompatible hardware.
It's all pretty vile.
ange1face20:
"then they drag their feet and release a bug patch roughly parallel with the next EP and misdirect our attention through a time-proven method of bait and switch so we end up getting a bigger system or new video card or higher amounts of system RAM and they poopoo us for using incompatible hardware."
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