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keekee53
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that allows the Sims 2 to utilize all of my computer's memory. Is there anything out there like that?
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It tries to set the limit depending on your video card, but you can set this yourself, too. And if your video card is recognized by the game, but with today's new cards not many are in the game files as known cards since that's ten years ago, but the new GR program tries to adjust for all that.
http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
Download it, extract it (you can just do extract here as you do not need to keep it after using it, and it doesn't need to be in any certain place.)Double click on the extracted part, a box will open up showing your files. In that box go to:
C: (or whatever drive you have the game on) -> program files (x86) -> Origin Games -> Sims 2 UC-> Fun with pets -> SP9 ->TSBin
Then double click the Sims 2 .exe (should read Sims2 EP9) you should get a message saying it was patched successfully. Close out the message and you are done. You can delete or stash away the patch, as you wish.
It does help the game load a bit faster, build mode ect. load up faster. So it does help, and is perfectly safe. (So long as your pc meets the requirements) I have been using it for years, nothing exploded yet.
Oh this is not only good for sims, if you have other older games you play that don't pull enough ram, it will also work on those.
Ah but memory or ram , is not dependent on your video card. It is a separate entity. Some card come with ram they can pull from, but each game is set to only use so much.
It has a place to set this in the options. From 128MB to higher than 4,000MB etc.
Isn't that the texture memory? I didn't see any instructions or place to set ram, seems strange, I might have to have another look at it.
Gah
Do you think i could copy/past TH2 executable somewhere else to be able to revert back the updating if anything goes wrong ? I do have 8GB of ram and a 64 bit OS but i have an old computer (he's something like 6 years old ...) and the processor is kinda weak.
Yes you can make a copy of your .exe and put it somewhere else, just in case. Just not in the sims 2 file. I have a back up of everything I changed, just in case something dreadful happens and I need to reinstall. If for some reason something goes wrong you can just take your copy and drop it back in after deleting the altered one of course, can't have 2!
Oh fingers crossed! I don't think it will blow up, I am sure you will be fine. I haven't seen any pc explode because of it yet.
I did this but I don't delete securom
I got a 8 Gb of ram and a 4 core processor more than 3Hz
Before with vista 32 bits I used bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa it works fine but I don't think it'll work with windows 10 64 bits
and you know what the game is processor greedy it's not normal.
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Then it looks like Securom is the source of your problem...
TS2 Graphics Fix Tutorial]
I agree with @Scribal_Goddess . If your game is That slow then it is Securom slowing it down. Especially if you are on Windows 10. They don't play well together.
It's the RAM for the card, like mine has 2GB of RAM on the card. I had to set my manually because it's not in the TS2 accepted card list in config and it's not one the Graphics Rule Maker has, either.
I had to set my card manually as well. Graphic rules didn't help, and my card was certainly not on the list of accepted cards. The ram that comes with a graphics card is separate from the ram that is inside your pc. Not all graphics cards have ram attached, but all computers have ram.
Ram on a card is memory on the graphics card that hold information on the textures that are to be rendered in a game, along with other things, so your game runs smoother (less rendering because it is held to memory) Computer ram is for the speed you can get processes to run. The more ram your pc has the faster it can load games, load internet pages ect. You can add the card manually, and it even says how much ram the card has next to it, but I don't believe you can set the actual computer ram from there, as it has nothing to do with graphics. At least I couldn't find anything, and wouldn't understand if you were able too. The .exe is set up to only read so much, so unless you alter that, I don't see how you can give the game more ram.