What sort of system do you need to run the sims2 at 60fps? Tips to improve COD2 rate?

Metalface Mark · 31 Jan 2006 at 10:54

I bought my kids the sims 2 yesterday, i thought it would run at 60fps with my pc. 2gb ram, x1800xt and p4 @ 3.55ghz. Quake 4 runs 60fps without any frame drops, so why cant the sims?

Is the game a cpu hog? It hits 60fps in places, but in the house, its only getting about 45.

For my own fun, i also bought Call of Duty 2. It runs quite well at 1280x1024, getting about 45fps, i know this is a system hog, but is there any tweaks that i could do to get this running silky at 60fps?

HangTime · 31 Jan 2006 at 11:04

Set CoD2 to dx7 render mode instead of dx9, will give you a huge FPS boost.

As for the Sims2, it's very cpu dependent, for a steady 60fps I'd guess you'd need a 2.8ghz A64 or above. Then again it's not really the sort of game where you need high framerate anyway (compared to FPS games).

warnea1984 · 31 Jan 2006 at 15:53

I got the sims2 running on a 6200 gpu, and it runs fine for my little sister, it keeps here off my beast of a machine

Prospector · 31 Jan 2006 at 19:02

HangTime said:
Set CoD2 to dx7 render mode instead of dx9, will give you a huge FPS boost.

As for the Sims2, it's very cpu dependent, for a steady 60fps I'd guess you'd need a 2.8ghz A64 or above. Then again it's not really the sort of game where you need high framerate anyway (compared to FPS games).

That would give COD2 a huge boost in FPS, but it would look more like COD 1

Emlyn_Dewar · 31 Jan 2006 at 19:13

Have you tried shutting down any un-necessary processes in task manager? I remember some people saying it made games run a little better on their systems.

Metalface Mark · 31 Jan 2006 at 21:41

yeh dont have many things running, ive looked at a few benchmarks, and 45fps is actually pretty good, i just would like to see a silky 60

pegasus1 · 31 Jan 2006 at 22:01

InwardSinging said:
For my own fun, i also bought Call of Duty 2. It runs quite well at 1280x1024, getting about 45fps, i know this is a system hog, but is there any tweaks that i could do to get this running silky at 60fps?

Disablingn shadows is usually a decent place to start with this kind of game. Check for driver updates and any game Config file tweeks. For my 7800GTX, the 82.12 drivers made a big difference and there is a Config File tweak that added a few more FPS but as i said this is for a 7800GTX (Out of the box, the game is set up for SLI so has a performance hit when using a single card so editing the Config file is neccisarry).