9 years ago
I'm at my wit's end
I've been trying more or less constantly over the past week or two to get this game to a playable point. There is no reason I shouldn't be able to run a game that came out in 2009 at all max settings....
"jusMeh;14567473" wrote:"igazor;14564067" wrote:
I think the OP's expectations for how smoothly a 2009 game that has been out of development for over two years will run on a higher end 2016 (or something similar) computer and graphics card are a bit high. It should be playable, it's not going to be perfect, and there are going to be tradeoffs and workarounds needed.
This.
This game will never run perfectly, no game ever does, not even console games LOL.
My game lags on occasion as well, especially when in neighborhood view and trying to move camera around; it lags because the game is rendering all the lots. What else is it supposed to do? Of course it's gonna lag at least somewhat. Yes I get an occasional crash here and there as well. Doesn't bother me anymore as I ensure to save it after making any major changes.
In fact I finally got the Sweet FX modification to work (not Ultra but a step-down version) and my game doesn't even take a performance hit from it and looks... eye-poppingly amazing. Makes me giddy lol. :D
Again, if you love this game enough you simply have to work with it. That's what I"ve been doing (off and on) for the past 7 years. It is what it is. If you don't want to bother with it, there's always Sims 4, but who's to say that game will run perfectly after several more E.P.s etc? It's the nature of the beast and if you don't want to bother with it, you shouldn't be playing PC games IMO.
eta: and my desktop PC only cost $1100.