playing the sims 3 in 2020
what do I need to play the sims 3 on high graphics settings? I need someone to tell me how to post my computer info. thank you
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When the game was released in 2009, it could only make use of 2 GB of RAM (this is still true only of the Mac version). That was fixed when the game became Large Address Aware (LAA) with Patch 1.17 released alongside of Late Night.
@Zei - I'm afraid that link is indeed not helpful and what it is instructing players to change is really the upper limit of the game's script heap which is set to 20 GB by default (not 2 GB). That setting should really be left alone, the developers must have had a reason for choosing 20 GB as a default value there and it has nothing to do with RAM usage.
There is most certainly no way to get the game to use 8 GB like that guide says. The one who posted it so many years ago should have known better, and quite possibly did but posted this anyway and players have unfortunately been taken in by it ever since. :/
@Zei - I'm afraid that link is indeed not helpful and what it is instructing players to change is really the upper limit of the game's script heap which is set to 20 GB by default (not 2 GB). That setting should really be left alone, the developers must have had a reason for choosing 20 GB as a default value there and it has nothing to do with RAM usage.
There is most certainly no way to get the game to use 8 GB like that guide says. The one who posted it so many years ago should have known better, and quite possibly did but posted this anyway and players have unfortunately been taken in by it ever since. :/
