"igazor;c-17452344" wrote:
"Magnezone;c-17452319" wrote:
"igazor;c-17451866" wrote:
But there are some hard limitations to this game we love so much above the other iterations that are available to play and there are no ways to overcome these things. The game cannot make use of more than two cores, 4 GB of RAM (the actual upper limit is ~3.7 GB on Windows, 2 GB for the Mac version)
You see, I have a Windows PC, and my upper limits for RAM usage was set as 2 GB by default, not 4, so I changed it to 4, and if this is meant to be the upper limit anyway I'm not sure why this was the case?
Are we talking about is the ini file setting that says
MemoryUsageLimit = 20000000
We all have that and it doesn't mean what it looks like. This has become an urban legend of sorts over the years with players who should have known better (or who were trying to be trolls) talking about changing that one on blogs and help sites.
Ah. I see. I assumed that value was
kilobits rather than kilobytes, making it 2.5GB by default rather than 20GB. I did say this to my partner at the time when editing files based on guides I was reading online - that the files seemed to arbitrarily switch between units.
The wording makes it seem like it's referring to RAM usage though, and that's what the guide I was using said the setting changed.
I guess this is a case of weird forum telephone. I changed files because someone in the feedback forums for The Sims 4 said it was recommended and basically necessary to play The Sims 3 well. One person starts something and then it spreads like wildfire whether or not the information is actually correct.
I'm pretty much convinced it was placebo now after this explanation though at least.
Do you instead have recommendations to get the game to run better? It runs fine on my machine, even with all expansions. But it could run better, for sure.