Can my game be better if I upgrade my machine?

[J. M. Pescado]

It's not just a question of them "liking" it, it's a basic matter of common sense: The demographic of Sims-players is not the high-end techie crowd, so limiting the game to only those with the best computers is selecting from a very small subset of their potential customerbase, which would be dumb.

[Narmy]

You argue that 12GB RAM is overkill, it probably is, but so is a 2 or 3 x SLI GTX570 graphics set-up, and an i9 hexacore processor overclocked to some ridiculous speed, but people still do it.

The people who have computers like that are either idiots who bought an Alienware, or people who actually use that power.

[J. M. Pescado]

I have a computer like that, but you need way more than 12 GBs of RAMs to squeak more performance out of the Pudding, so unless you have enough RAMs to cram the entire thing into a RAMdisk, it won't help much.

[Narmy]

I have a computer like that, but you need way more than 12 GBs of RAMs to squeak more performance out of the Pudding, so unless you have enough RAMs to cram the entire thing into a RAMdisk, it won't help much.

What files does the game access more, the installation directory or all the crap it stuffs into "My Documents"?