Who's still playing the Sims 1 from time to time?

"simsample;15134000" wrote:

That doesn't look like mud in the tub though- maybe it was a sulphur bath or something? :p

If I remember correctly it had several options. A milk bath, a sulfur bath and a mud bath.

@simsample that's so funny, i love superstar :D i like that it's a bit more "realistic" (if you can call it that in the sims) than for example late night or showtime from ts3 :D

Yes!!! The simplicity is extremely refreshing. This is coming from someone who still plays Bustin Out though lol (they still bang and makes me feel all nostalgic for the early 00s).

@bluegayle_ same, i play all 4 games as well :D it's so much more fun because they all have different features and different stuff i love about them :smiley:

Also, that's too bad you don't have time :/ Hopefully you'll get some time to to play soon :)

@bluegayle @Sel

"bluegayle_;15139293" wrote:
I play 2, 3 & 4 when i get the time.

Me too! <3

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=5067366#post5067366

@simsample

Your pics of Sims 1 are stunning to say the least how the heck do you manage to get such good graphics? no matter what I tried when I first installed 1 on my windows 7 OS the graphics of the hood/world were fine but the sims themselves looked really weird so in the end I uninstalled everything 1 until after I paid for this new desktop upgrade for 2,3 and 4 series ( although it took me almost 4 days just to get my sims 2 graphics back to normal and I was beginning to despair) and then in the next couple of weeks my tech is putting together a laptop with all the right specs just for me to be able to play but you seem to have flawless graphics in every series so what is your secret I would love to know as I too wanted every series playable on one desktop :)

@SPARKY1922
Well I'm using a five year old Windows 7 PC for my sims games that I built, it has an Nvidia GTS 450 which was a modest card even back then! But it performs very well for the four Sims series, and I play SC4 and SC5 on there too. I would think that the blurry sims are more likely a problem with the way the Sims 1 is detecting or utilising your hardware, rather then a problem with the hardware itself. Someone had a similar problem over on MTS too:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=5011753#post5011753
Perhaps try some of the suggestions there if you get the same problem again- I found that the Sims 1 looks crisper when displayed in a 1024x768 window, rather than in fullscreen mode. Also, I use a screenshot program for my screenshots rather than the in-game cameras, which helps. :)

@simsample

:o a 450 card with graphics like that I cannot believe it lol I appreciate you may use a screenshot program but i doubt you could cover game blur up with that could you?

I have always upgraded because of sims 3 as I like to play in massive worlds and that needs decent hardware.

That was me on the thread you outline on MTS lol I had just got sims 1 and was dying to play it but just could not resolve the blur on the sim I tried everything and more but nothing made any difference so I uninstalled it with a view to trying again in the future but I think the graphics may be worse after this current upgrade so I am not even going to try..

I saved that thread on MTS so I could go back and post some pics when I finally got it up and running and just looking back over the thread now that was April so 5 months ago and still I have not got to play but I had to save up for this current desktop upgrade and then buy an old laptop with the right specs to play 1 which now the upgrade is paid off I can have the laptop in the next three weeks or so.

Thinking about that my PC tech does not really understand 3 games as he does not play and can never quite understand some of the hag we go through playing them on newer systems he says he is simply going to build the spec requirements on XP so I can play the game but I am worried he is going to underestimate the specs I may need and wondered if you could advise at all.

My tech just wants to make sure the laptop is up to hours of playing without negative effects because he knows when I start to play I wont stop for hours, knows me well :)

I remember when i first fired 1 up I loved the parrot, the volleyball that jet pack style machine etc and I adore those NPC's on the ice cream cart that actually sell your sims an ice cream :) I loved the massive sweet shops and the ski pipe etc. I have a list of mods and stuff I want to try especially as I think I saw a mod for a bodyguard something I wanted for sims 3 for so long and could never could never find one ..

that clown is really creepy and I hoped I would never find it my sims house, and I still cannot wrap my head around children not growing up. I am really looking forward to be able to try playing again soon :)

@@SPARKY1922
Haha, I thought that must be you, but didn't want to assume! I'm playing Sims 3 at the moment, a world I made which has 162 lots and a lot of effects, and my old computer does just fine with it. I built the PC myself (specifically for Sims 3) and the only upgrades it has had recently are new hard drives (faster! :) ), but it does have great cooling as I have a decent CPU fan in there (with the best thermal paste) and a gaming case with extra fans. So it runs my large world with around 300 sims on 60-80 FPS with GPU and CPU under 60 degrees C, although in reality I throttle the framerate to match the game render rate (30FPS).

You are going to play Sims 3 on a laptop? Make sure you have one with good cooling, as heat could be a problem! You'll need a good graphics card too- one with seperate memory, not integrated. This forum is a good place to look for help with that- try posting a question there, as some knowledgeable people might answer you! :)
http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=563

@SPARKY1922 i'm pretty sure even the cheaptest and weakest "modern" laptop can handle the sims 1 without any problems, i mean there's some flash games that are heavier on your PC than sims 1 lmao :smiley:
sims 1 specs are 233 MHz for the CPU and 32MB ram..! :D
Also, I feel the struggle... recently upgraded my PC to play the sims 3 with my unreal amount of CC :$ Been playing on my laptop before that, and while it's pretty good (I was pretty much able to play with the highest resolutions with no problems), the screen was always kinda pixelated and after a while the loading times were too long because of CC :/
Hopefully your desktop will work fine for TS3! :)