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winterloc
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Hi all you sim 4 tech simmers,
I did the can you run it test and it gave me all green checks for minimum specs. Then I checked out the Recommended specs and the only thing in question is my old video cards. ATIx1950 cross fired. I have a 512mb video card memory and they recommend 1gig video memory. This has me a little confused even though it is only a recommendation. Is it true that The sims 4 runs on a video card using 128mb video memory? On the minimum spec side I get 1 bar for my cards and the check green mark.
I also checked my laptop and the same thing in the video card section I get green check with one bar. I go over to the recommended and it is good to go as well. As this card has the 1gig of memory. I think in my laptop I have a Ninvida M420 something like that. I am not really concerned about the laptop at this time. Problem with that is I only have a 500gig hard drive and these games can stuff that up in no time when you go with all the eps and sps.
I will post my specs here for my old girl gateway FX 530xt. I just put two new tera byte hard drives in this one and a new dvd/cd burner player drive actually I just did two of them. Plus I maxed out the memory to 8gigs. I mainly use this one to play all my sims games. I also did the last ep for sims 3 and got the same results as I did for sims 4. However I do not have any lag game looks good and plays fine no crashes I am using mostly all of the ddl except for the first bunch of eps. My last ddl was Into the Future.
My next question is I believe I read somewhere on Origin I think something about the sims 4 could mess with your dvd players? I do not have any third party burning software installed on this computer. I am concerned because I just replaced the old ones and these are hard to come by because they are old dvd/cd optical drives. I will have to use several posts as discussed here on this forum.
Thanks for reading and your information,
Your Simmy friend Winterloc
I did the can you run it test and it gave me all green checks for minimum specs. Then I checked out the Recommended specs and the only thing in question is my old video cards. ATIx1950 cross fired. I have a 512mb video card memory and they recommend 1gig video memory. This has me a little confused even though it is only a recommendation. Is it true that The sims 4 runs on a video card using 128mb video memory? On the minimum spec side I get 1 bar for my cards and the check green mark.
I also checked my laptop and the same thing in the video card section I get green check with one bar. I go over to the recommended and it is good to go as well. As this card has the 1gig of memory. I think in my laptop I have a Ninvida M420 something like that. I am not really concerned about the laptop at this time. Problem with that is I only have a 500gig hard drive and these games can stuff that up in no time when you go with all the eps and sps.
I will post my specs here for my old girl gateway FX 530xt. I just put two new tera byte hard drives in this one and a new dvd/cd burner player drive actually I just did two of them. Plus I maxed out the memory to 8gigs. I mainly use this one to play all my sims games. I also did the last ep for sims 3 and got the same results as I did for sims 4. However I do not have any lag game looks good and plays fine no crashes I am using mostly all of the ddl except for the first bunch of eps. My last ddl was Into the Future.
My next question is I believe I read somewhere on Origin I think something about the sims 4 could mess with your dvd players? I do not have any third party burning software installed on this computer. I am concerned because I just replaced the old ones and these are hard to come by because they are old dvd/cd optical drives. I will have to use several posts as discussed here on this forum.
Thanks for reading and your information,
Your Simmy friend Winterloc
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System Information
Time of this report: 11/27/2014, 23:25:43
Machine name:
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140706-1506)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gateway
System Model: FX530
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8188MB RAM
Page File: 2664MB used, 13709MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode
DxDiag Notes
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
DirectX Debug Levels
Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
Display Devices
Card name: Radeon X1950 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type:
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7240&SUBSYS_0D021002&REV_00
Display Memory: 3320 MB
Dedicated Memory: 509 MB
Shared Memory: 2811 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: H233H (Analog)
Monitor Id: ACR00E3
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Driver Name: atiumdag,atiumdva,atiumd64.dll,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64
Driver File Version: 8.14.0010.0630 (English)
Driver Version: 8.56.1.16
DDI Version: 9Ex
Driver Model: WDDM 1.0
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 7/13/2009 20:40:03, 4030976 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
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D3D9 Overlay: Not Supported
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
Sound Devices
Description: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_60071102&REV_00
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Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
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Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
Date and Size: 5/5/2010 17:37:06, 686808 bytes
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Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Description: SPDIF Out (Creative SB X-Fi)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_60071102&REV_00
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Product ID: 100
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WHQL Logo'd: Yes
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Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
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Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Description: SPDIF Out (Creative SB X-Fi)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_60071102&REV_00
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Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
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Date and Size: 5/5/2010 17:37:06, 686808 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Creative
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0xF1F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Sound Capture Devices
Description: Digital-In (Creative SB X-Fi)
Default Sound Capture: Yes
Default Voice Capture: No
Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1376 (English)
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Default Sound Capture: No
Default Voice Capture: Yes
Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
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Cap Flags: 0x1
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DirectInput Devices
Device Name: Mouse
Attached: 1
Controller ID: n/a
Vendor/Product ID: n/a
FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: Keyboard
Attached: 1
Controller ID: n/a
Vendor/Product ID: n/a
FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: USB Receiver
Attached: 1
Controller ID: 0x0
Vendor/Product ID: 0x046D, 0xC52B
FF Driver: n/a
Attached: 1
Controller ID: 0x0
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FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: USB Receiver
Attached: 1
Controller ID: 0x0
Vendor/Product ID: 0x046D, 0xC52B
FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: USB Receiver
Attached: 1
Controller ID: 0x0
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FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: USB Receiver
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Controller ID: 0x0
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FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: USB Receiver
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Controller ID: 0x0
Vendor/Product ID: 0x046D, 0xC52B
FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: Wacom Virtual Hid Driver
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Device Name: Wacom Virtual Hid Driver
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Controller ID: 0x0
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FF Driver: n/a
Device Name: Wacom Virtual Hid Driver
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FF Driver: n/a
Poll w/ Interrupt: No
USB Devices
+ USB Root Hub
| Vendor/Product ID: 0x8086, 0x27CB
| Matching Device ID: usb\root_hub
| Service: usbhub
| Driver: usbhub.sys, 11/26/2013 20:41:37, 343040 bytes
| Driver: usbd.sys, 11/26/2013 20:41:03, 7808 bytes
Gameport Devices
PS/2 Devices
+ Standard PS/2 Keyboard
| Matching Device ID: *pnp0303
| Service: i8042prt
| Driver: i8042prt.sys, 7/13/2009 18:19:57, 105472 bytes
| Driver: kbdclass.sys, 7/13/2009 20:48:04, 50768 bytes
|
+ HID Keyboard Device
| Vendor/Product ID: 0x046D, 0xC52B
I am going to end this here for now as I really do not want to stuff this forum up with all of my pages if you all need more info on this spec report I will continue to post the rest of the information.
Your simmy friend Winterloc
The ATI Radeon X1950 graphics card should allow you to play the game at medium settings, or perhaps even medium-high settings if the game is optimised enough for your particular Crossfire setup.
I hope this helps and keep simming,
Cody
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I do believe all my Sims 3 games or either medium settings to high.
Good to know that this old girl computer can play them.
Your simmy friend,
Winterloc
I bought and downloaded and installed the sims 4. When I got past the load page and got into the game I noticed blocks of color and black boxes on the page. I went into game options and every thing set on low except 3d rendering set to medium. I lowered that one to low and moved everything else up to medium. I also click on custom saved and exited the game. I went back in and the color was gone and looked ok. I played for a bit and exited out of game. The game closed but not the load screen. I am not sure if this game runs funny or not. I check to see if I am patched according to Origin it is. I am not sure if I will keep this game as I really do not like how it is messing with my computer.
First go around I had to hard shut down my computer. Then the last time I tried to do a restart and had to wait for Origin to close out and something host to close. I have windows gadgets on my desktop and they got rearranged to the middle of my computer. The game looks a little dark. Lights will not go on to brighten the room.
I think my video cards are the cause. I think it is the drivers as well. The drivers are from windows as Ati drivers I think are done with my cards. Oh well if anyone has any info on any of my mentioned problems post it here or if there is anything I need to do get this game to run as well as my other sims games.
Your simmy friend,
Winterloc
How do you do that? While in game? I will try. Thanks
Your simmy friend,
Winterloc
I am just afraid everything will start going strange. You all know looks like your graphics card went belly up. I think my problem is a driver issue. I will look on ati to see if I can find one. I am using the windows 7 driver for video cards cause the cards are so old.
I will say this it is a pretty game and I love the paddle boat that comes around. Bella is beautiful and I changed Morty to a goatee.
No crashes. Just have a hard time at times getting out of the game. I have had to hard shut down my computer cause I could not use ctrl alt delete.
Thanks for reading and help you three gave me.
Your simmy friend,
Winterloc
You all have fun with it and I will stick to my sims 1,2,3 and other ea games that I have. Good luck with your sims 4 and when the eps and sps come along download lots of pictures.
Your grateful Simmy friend,
Winterloc