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"ClarionOfJoy;c-17881382" wrote:

"WaytoomanyUIDs;c-17881379" wrote:
A faster machine is brute force

No it isn't. Explain how is it brute force? If it is brute force, then playing the ALL the old games is on brute force as well - not just TS3. So why the double standard?

A faster CPU lets TS3 take advantage of that feature to allow more townies, tourists and pets to be active in community lots and roam in the worlds. You wrote that there are problems and complications with a faster computer playing TS3, but you've not ever been specific while I've been specific about how TS3 has been better with it.

I think for Sims 3 to a certain point improving the computer would give better results up to a certain point. Beyond that it was hit or miss and players couldn't pinpoint exactly what was causing people with builds that well exceed the recommended specs to have major problems with the game.

In your example, more Sims going to lots could mean more Sims hitting routing issues inherent in the worlds and the lots, increasing lag as time goes on to a greater extent than someone with a processor that's just a step down from them.

It's one of those things that happens to games when you put them on systems that are significantly newer than the systems they were originally designed to run. The systems that the game was designed around have improved so much than the increase becomes the problem.

Here's an example:

Games used to use the CPU for timing purposes. Which was all fine and good until CPU speeds increased greatly. One of the Kings Quests games had a stick of dynamite you had to light and then take from point A to point B before it exploded for one step of the game. It's timer used the CPU speed. On a Windows XP laptop that was bare minimum to run Windows XP, you could take a step after lighting it and then explode. Luckily, you restarted from where you died, so you could make progress. I think it too me like 30 minutes to do what should have done in under 30 seconds. And that was with me running a virus scan in the background in an attempt to bog the computer down. The stuff game companies tell you to turn of and stop to improve performance.