General Help for Windows and Games
trl:
I am getting a new graphics card and I am wondering what you think of these cards in relation to playing The Sims 2; are these sufficient for good game play, not the best choice or way more than I need? It seems the more I read the more confused I get. I don't have to have the top of the line card (although who wouldn't) I just want to have better game play. My computer was set up more for business than gaming and it struggles with all the 3-d graphics of the Sim2. Thank you in advance for the help.
GEForce6600 OC 512mb DDR2 PCI Express or maybe GEForce6200 OC 256mb DDR
This is how I feel about this:
QUOTE: Beosboxboy:
but I am also a person capable of critical thinking, I would perhaps go with a less bloody cutting-edge of technology video card with more solid drivers, but then again I like black & white movies without the applied false-colouring by Turner.
BeosBoxBoy:
TRL - if you can use the PCI-express card - by all means go with it. 512 MB of Video memory is far superior to 256; the exact models may vary in particulars, but if you can list links for these items I will give you a detailed opinion.
trl:
Thank you for taking the time to help. You are always so generous with your limited time. My husband and I have decided to get a new computer after the holidays so I won't upgrade old Betsy LOL. I will keep all you have said in this thread when I put together my new machine. Thanks again. You are a doll!
Dinki:
I have a problem with defragmenting my drives. I uninstalled all games and I wanted to defrag before installing them again. But the damn thing is getting stuck on 10% of analyzing... help please! :???:
I have my hard drive in three parts and the problem is with two of them.
BeosBoxBoy:
dinki - if your computer is set up so it is always connected to the internet, try disabling the network connection. You might also try doing the defrag in safe mode.
Generally when defrag gets stuck like this it means there is too much activity of some sort. Make sure to turn off your anti-virus software, also use CTRL+ALT+DELETE to use Task Manager to stop everything but Explorer under your Windows user name, and disable the network (even if it is just disconnecting the wire). Empty your web browser cache, empty the recycle bin, and light a candle and give a little Hail Mary action.
It may take a long time to analyse the hard drive if you have a lot of small files (lots of stuff in the downloads folder and a lot of Internet cached files can be a bitch!) On my 200 gigabyte drive is takes over an hour to analyse.
Try removing the pagefile by disabling the pagefile in My Computer:
see this web page for instructions.
After you reboot, you should manually delete pagefile.sys from C:\ - you will have to be able to see hidden and system files to do this.
Now try running the defrag without the page file.
If it still locks up, you may have to disable the windows restore thing. It has an evil habit of getting full of viruses any way, so this is something I recommend doing.
If it still locks up on analysing, run CHKDSK on all the hard drives with the /F /R switches, like this:
click start
click run
type CMD
click ok
type CHKDSK E: /F /R
hit ENTER
This is assuming E is not the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM :lol:
It will long time to do this.
Hopefully you won't have to go that far.
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