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"ClarionOfJoy;c-17912656" wrote:"Seera1024;c-17912516" wrote:
Excuse me for not listing out the practically infinite number of ways a computer's hardware could potentially cause issues when being too new. How many should I have listed out?
You don't need to list the infinite number of ways that could potentially cause issues - you just need to keep it pertinent to TS3 and give good reasons why that is so and if there are any solutions to those issues. You really didn't do any of that."Seera1024;c-17912516" wrote:
One is allowed to reference other games when drawing a comparison. The comparison is relevant to the discussion therefore not a bad example.
The comparison wasn't relevant at all to the discussion because we were talking about TS3. King's Quest is a DOS game which behaves differently from TS3 and is from a much earlier era in the history of video games. So it was a bad example for drawing comparison.
A good example would have been another game that was developed around the same time as TS3 (base game engine, the base game itself and the expansion packs that added new gameplay where developed through a span of years in the mid to late 2000s). But honestly by that time, the CPU was no longer the real issue in causing problems for any games of that time.
It was pertinent to Sims 3. An improvement in the processor that caused an increase of Sims going out in the world that would generate lag when they ran into routing issues could potentially cause worse performance than another processor depending on the difference in stats. Just because you use mods and have corrected routing issues in your game doesn't mean that that's no longer a problem for people. Not everyone wants to use mods or download world fixes for routing issues or spend the time to do the corrections themselves. Nor am I required to list off the ways the problems can be fixed in a thread where that is not relevant. The topic was can a new computer be the cause of performance decrease. Solutions to the performance decrease is not relevant to the discussion of whether a new computer can be the cause. Therefore the mentioning of the various mods and fixes out there was not something I brought up as it would be off topic to what I was specifically talking about. And the solutions had already been brought up in the thread prior. I couldn't add anything new to the solutions side. But I could offer input on the problem side.
It would be like someone asking can antivirus affect a computer's performance and being told to defrag your hard drive. Yes, defragging your hard drive can improve performance, but it doesn't answer the question.
My example was a good example. Just because it's an old game does not make the point of the comparison void. And I did concede that game developers have done a better job of future proofing things. The reason for the comparison was to show that computer improvements can cause worse game performance than one would expect when upgrading. Which my example does prove. I will concede that a newer game would be a better example. I unfortunately don't know of a newer game where this is an issue and therefore I went with an older game that would show that it is a possibility.
But this is my last post on the matter because at this point, if you don't get what I'm trying to say then I don't think I can explain it any differently and we'll just have to agree to disagree.
