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Actually, my configuration is this :

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
Mémoire : 3070 RAM
DirectX 9.0C
Windows Professionnel service pack 2
Carte graphique : ATI Radeon 6333/X1050 Series

I'm looking for an other more powerful computer to play with my Sims.  My game play enough well but sometime little slow and freezing for little seconds.  My technician talk me about a  Quad or Quatro, don't know the real name of the CPU with 64 bits under windows XP.

I need to know before buy this machine if it will be really powerful and if the game is compatible in 64 bits.

I try to make a research but I didn't find nothing about this.  Can you help me please?

I'm guessing you'll be able to play, but won't benifit from any of the quad action.  I seem to remember people complaining about Win XP 64bits.
But I'm sure someone with more experience on the matter will give you a better answer.

Thank you very much Gwill  :)

I'm running on XP Pro 64bit. It works, mostly.

I think my issues are with BV but, as I have had this machine less than a month, I have not run any other game combination on it.

I have all the add-on too, I'm playing all day long with my Sims... well, the days I don't work.  I cannot say that my game doesn't work fine actually but sometimes its little slow, even when I'm playing on a big lot with a big family.  and sometimes, the game freeze for few seconds but don't crash.

My computer has two years old and when I bought it, it was FOR the Sims 2.  I have two fans on this machine to prevent the highest temperature.  Its really a computer built for my favorite game.

My kids want to play Sims 2 too but I don't want them to touch my computer... nobody touch my computer except me  ;D  So I decide to buy them an other computer for Christmas but I was looking to upgrade my own computer to an other one and gave them mine that I actually have.

The technician talk me about a Quad 64 bits because he said that my machine cannot be boost anymore.  It suppose to be at the top right now  :o :o Geeze, on what kind of computer Maxis built the game, I really would like to know because they seems to play without any problems ...

My biggest scare is to lose all of my programs if I turn on 64 bits.. like Nero, PhotoShop... I'm really not very familiar with the 32 bits or 64 etc..

I run XP x64 and haven't had any problems playing - I have all EP and FP's. I can't think of any software that I can't use, I have Nero and PhotShop and both run fine - the newest versions anyway. The only thing I would recommend is make sure all of your peripherals have 64 bit driver versions or you won't be able to use them.


There are a couple of programs that don't run as well as they used to and both are sims related. SimPe is one, I can't recolor EA objects directly from the Objects file and CleanInstaller throws a lot more errors at me then before my switch to 64 bit.

The Sims 2 does not support mutithreading/dual cores, so it will only use 1 of the 4 cores. The speed listed on the box will be the speed your game runs at.

For example my Pentium 4 3.0Ghz is faster than my Dual Core 2 2.0Ghz for this game, other games that use the dual cores will run a lot faster. I haven't noticed any difference running the game in a single thread or multiple in Vista though, but on XP there can be stuttering if the game is launched with both cores running.

Thank you very much dear  :D