Vista EMachine & Sims 2: Should I wait?
BionixWV33:
Ok, have been playing Sims 2 on my two XP machines for awhile, with one offering better gameplay as it has an AMD Athlon 64 3200+.Now, my latest desktop, an EMachine T3612 with Vista Home Premium, with a Celeron D 3.46 GHz, and onboard shared memory graphics courtesy of an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950,Up to 224MB Shared Video Memory.Now, should I wait till I get a PCIE16 video card before I go trying to install and play Sims 2, as yes, my 2 XP machines both have Radeon 9200 AGP cards in them, with 128 MB, and my EMachine only takes PCI Express 16 cards, or would the onboard graphics suffice for now?Remember, the Vista video requirements are "heavier" than Sims 2, so that kinda clues me in that it would suffice for now. Anyone have any suggestions..........beos.........kathy........?
BeosBoxBoy:
my advice - and you may yake it or leave it - is buy the system - but also buy a copy of Windows XP and immediately upon opening the case format the hard drive and install Windows XP -- The Intel 950 should play the game (not sure how well, but well enough I guess, until you can afford a PCI-E video card. Since you have two other PCs available, if you decided to go with the Emachine, just use the XP systems to download drivers and such for the XP platform.
Vista + The Sims 2 is a road of woe and hardship
abaris:
Actually I have both systems installed on seperate drives. Vista isn't as demanding as everybody claims. Actually I have the Sims installed under Vista and the performance seems to be better than under XP.
Willow7697:
ive been trying to get sims2 to run on my new vista for two weeks. and it wont work. im thoroughly frustrated. i guess at this point im going to have to reload xp and use that. this totally sucks.
abaris:
Quote from: Willow7697;1016313
ive been trying to get sims2 to run on my new vista for two weeks. and it wont work. im thoroughly frustrated. i guess at this point im going to have to reload xp and use that. this totally sucks.
Why didn't it work? What's the error? Might be, that you don't install with administrator rights. Anyway, it worked fine with me, so give some more informations and we can probably work it out.
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