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Title: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: vikitty on 2009 June 18, 13:22:47 Anyone else having speed/lag issues? My system is more than capable of running The Horror but someone at N99 said it could be because The Horror does not like my dual core processor and I should try and run it using just one processor?
Vikitty is dumb and does not know how to do this. D: Each processor is 2.13GHz so that should be enough for The Horror (which requires 2GHz). Please advise! :) Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: I.Am.She on 2009 June 18, 13:32:15 I dont think it should make much difference. But when TS3 is running, open task manager, right click on TS3.exe click affinity or something along those lines, and uncheck the second processor.
Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: VacantBlue on 2009 June 18, 13:38:42 I'm not having any lag issues with my 3.0 GHz duo core processor.
There are quite a few other things that could be causing your lag. You may want to post all of your computer specs; so, we can see the whole picture. Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: brownlustgirl on 2009 June 18, 13:53:37 I am playing the game on a dual core processor, with no lag issues. The speed of time is slow anyway. Long time ago I changed the gaming to one processor, got the info from windows. ( I don't know your OS) I.Am.She. has reminded me.
Also I optimized my dual processors by downloading a dual-core optimizer from the manufacturer. I am not sure what it does, but it was suggested when I had lag-problems playing TS2. Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: vikitty on 2009 June 18, 14:14:28 Interesting. I set the game to run on its own processor and the performance went waaaay up. Before, the game was laggy, jumpy (as in animation would stop/start) and jerky -- doing anything would have a delay of about 5seconds which was VERY frustrating in CAS. It's now more smooth and reactions are faster.
Specs: Intel(R) Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 gHz 2.00 GB of RAM NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE (256MB memory) 128GB free hard drive space I did do a disk defragment last night -- would that also have had an effect? Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: Zaphod Beeblebrox on 2009 June 18, 18:01:53 I would imagine that part of your lag has to do with that graphics card, too. It's not that spectacular of a gaming card (even though it's labeled by Nvidia as one) as it's rather low-end now. As a friend once put it, "Never buy a card with LE or SE anywhere in the name. LE = lags on everything, and SE = sucks at everything."
What resolution are you playing in and what are your graphic settings in the game? Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: Roflganger on 2009 June 18, 18:12:56 When turning on anisotropic filtering yesterday in the Nvidia control panel, I came across an option to optimize multi CPU (not GPU) usage and while I haven't had any serious performance issues to begin with, I have to say it's made a noticeable difference.
Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: Roflganger on 2009 June 18, 18:33:06 Yeah should have known it was just observer bias. Oh well - like I said, it's not like I had any performance issues anyway.
Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: WerewolfOfTheWater on 2009 June 18, 23:39:20 I have a dual core and it runs just perfectly for me, rarely ever any lag in anything, even when I'm recording.
Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: vikitty on 2009 June 19, 01:01:11 Thank you for the advice, everyone. I am trying it again with both processors and it is running smoothly s well, so I'm wondering if it was more the defrag that helped.
Will ponder a new graphics card. I've never updated my computer and I'm a bit cautious, both financially and technically. Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: Mooingloudly on 2009 June 20, 04:36:23 My Geforce Graphics card is a 7100 model which I presume is lower than yours model wise. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to run it but I haven't had any problems. I have even set a couple of the graphic settings set to high. Not all of them mostly Sim Details and such. Once in a great the window goes black for a moment. (not my entire monitor but the windowed sims3 session. But it's not often enough to even be annoying. I'd post my specs but that would be redundant as I have a thread kicking round here somehwhere.
Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: farmersimmer on 2009 June 20, 09:58:34 Ahh maybe that is why my sims wife can go out and find her husbands exact clone ( same name) hanging in the park? Dual clones dual processor :)
Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2009 June 20, 10:26:28 No. The reason THAT happens is because the game is snarfing entries from the library and cloning them into your neighborhood. We're working on preventing that.
Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: JacquiES on 2009 June 20, 15:33:35 No. The reason THAT happens is because the game is snarfing entries from the library and cloning them into your neighborhood. We're working on preventing that. Awesome, because I just found a complete clone family living in a house pretty much down the road from the original. I thought I had deleted the family out of the library in time, but obviously not. The little girl was riding her bike home and passed her clone also riding her bike. Very strange. Title: Re: Playing The Horror with a dual core processor Post by: vikitty on 2009 June 20, 16:15:14 Happy to report that even with my ghetto card, preformance has improved a LOT since the defrag. I'm still going to upgrade my card down the road but for now I'm enjoying playing the game :D
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