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Video Card Not Good Enough??? - Palii_Girl - 28-05-2009 07:42 PM
I went to canyourunit.com and they said my video card isnt adequate.
what shall i doooo ??
i dont have the money to buy a new one...
will i still be able tp play the game ???
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - SimsCandy_Sims_4LIFE - 28-05-2009 08:21 PM
i think you would still be able to play..I think..it jus gone be something different about the game..maybe the texture of it..I dont know..I really cant tell you..but you know once you install the game..it will tell you what you will need..and who knows..you might get away with it..its jus gone be something different about the game..I fully dont know the answer..but that is my guess
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - The_Sims_3_Maniac - 28-05-2009 08:25 PM
I think you still can play it but i also think that there will be some little problems because of it,maybe your game is going to restart sometimes,it was happening to me when i had a old computer {wacko}
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - kl_turriff - 28-05-2009 10:33 PM
the graphics will not be as good, and if it is WAY to old it wont run at all. {no}
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - MrAlex - 29-05-2009 02:37 PM
Ill guess you're in the us? Luckily for you, ATI, a manufacturer of video cards produce some cheap and excellent performing cards!
I'll post a list of cards in order of performance:
Radeon HD 4650 - Best card for under $50 - Good performance, beats any NVIDIA card in it's price range.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161262
Radeon HD 4670 - Best card for under $75 - Amazing performance, beats any NVIDIA card in it's price range
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102818
Radoen HD 4830 - AMAZING PERFORMANCE, ENTHUSIAST LEVEL - FOR UNDER $90 - BEATS ALL NVIDIA CARDS UP TO GTS 250!!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102822
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - sharkloverplayer - 29-05-2009 03:45 PM
Can you run it isn't accurate because they said my videocard won't work either.They said it's too slow.I have a Nvidea GL 120 which is the same as the 9500.Both are listed as compatible on the sims 3 site as requirments.It said the minimum aount of memory required on the card is 256mb and I have 1gb.1gb is much faster then 256mb.This site doesn't know what their talking about.I hope I can run the game on high with this card.
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - MrAlex - 29-05-2009 04:21 PM
(29-05-2009 03:45 PM)sharkloverplayer link Wrote:Can you run it isn't accurate because they said my videocard won't work either.They said it's too slow.I have a Nvidea GL 120 which is the same as the 9500.Both are listed as compatible on the sims 3 site as requirments.It said the minimum aount of memory required on the card is 256mb and I have 1gb.1gb is much faster then 256mb.This site doesn't know what their talking about.I hope I can run the game on high with this card.
No, 1GB isn't faster. E.g 1GB of GDDR2 vs 512MB of GDDR3...GDDR3 is WAY faster as more data is transfered per second. Second of all, you WONT be able to play on max settings. NVIDIA GT 120 is an OEM only card, and comes with 512MB of GDDR2 RAM, which is very old and slow. The clocks are also very slow as well. You'll be able to play on medium settings but not maximum settings.
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - sharkloverplayer - 29-05-2009 06:38 PM
What card will play on high?The GL come with my new pc which only uses ddr2.My pc has 8gb's of ram will that make up for the slow video card.It's also a quad core.
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - Nova - 29-05-2009 07:52 PM
i know with sims 2 when my pc wasn't good enough the walls flashed red to black all the time - even in CAS it was really weird
Re: Video Card Not Good Enough??? - MrAlex - 30-05-2009 09:34 PM
(29-05-2009 06:38 PM)sharkloverplayer link Wrote:What card will play on high?The GL come with my new pc which only uses ddr2.My pc has 8gb's of ram will that make up for the slow video card.It's also a quad core.
The RAM and quad core wont make a difference; It's all dependent on the GPU for looks.