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Running the Sims 4 on Windows 10 and having a good time with it
Gulo
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Recently installed the Sims 4 on Windows 10, my first play in a few months and was surprised at how well the game runs compared to back before my rig bought the farmville.
Overall I find that the game runs much better and is less crashy and buggy/glitchy with old/new sweet content such as neighborhood meet and greet event, the new world with totally sweet and big lots, new sounds, NPC Sims getting promotions, I know for a fact that Liberty Lee didn't start out as an astronaut or that Nancy Landgraab didn't start out as a crime boss.
Still not running great though, there are some progress breaking bugs that needs fixing but overall it is a big improvement to how it was when I last played it.
Another unexpected thing was that the day after I installed it we finally got dishwashers, I really admire EA's business model with offering some things for free to whet peoples apetite and then having a good mix of useful and purely aesthetic but nonessential content as overpriced goodies.
My hat goes off to EA for their clever business sense.
The whole idea with differently priced expansion, game and stuff packs is simple yet brilliant.
Expansion and game packs have new skills and worlds while stuff packs only has cool and useful stuff and here's the really great thing, none of it is awful or of horribly low quality. Kinda rare in this day and age.
Even at reduced price the total cost for all of it is enough to buy two decently priced games.
When I saw the announcement for cool kitchen stuff was my first thought was that LifeSimmer will adore this content and in her recent eps she totally gushed over it as I expected.
That girl loves food, if you haven't you can check out her stuff on youtube.
I finally finished a concept that I had to abandon two times before and got to try out new things for the first time, been enjoying myself a lot actually.
There are still things in the vanilla game that I haven't tried yet and looking forward to.
Anyone else want to share their positive and negative experiences with playing the Sims 4 on Windows 10?
Overall I find that the game runs much better and is less crashy and buggy/glitchy with old/new sweet content such as neighborhood meet and greet event, the new world with totally sweet and big lots, new sounds, NPC Sims getting promotions, I know for a fact that Liberty Lee didn't start out as an astronaut or that Nancy Landgraab didn't start out as a crime boss.
Still not running great though, there are some progress breaking bugs that needs fixing but overall it is a big improvement to how it was when I last played it.
Another unexpected thing was that the day after I installed it we finally got dishwashers, I really admire EA's business model with offering some things for free to whet peoples apetite and then having a good mix of useful and purely aesthetic but nonessential content as overpriced goodies.
My hat goes off to EA for their clever business sense.
The whole idea with differently priced expansion, game and stuff packs is simple yet brilliant.
Expansion and game packs have new skills and worlds while stuff packs only has cool and useful stuff and here's the really great thing, none of it is awful or of horribly low quality. Kinda rare in this day and age.
Even at reduced price the total cost for all of it is enough to buy two decently priced games.
When I saw the announcement for cool kitchen stuff was my first thought was that LifeSimmer will adore this content and in her recent eps she totally gushed over it as I expected.
That girl loves food, if you haven't you can check out her stuff on youtube.
I finally finished a concept that I had to abandon two times before and got to try out new things for the first time, been enjoying myself a lot actually.
There are still things in the vanilla game that I haven't tried yet and looking forward to.
Anyone else want to share their positive and negative experiences with playing the Sims 4 on Windows 10?
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I haven't upgraded to Windows 10 yet — getting through a work crunch first (this is also my work computer!). What graphics card are you playing on?
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> "Bought the farmville" is the best phrase I've read in ages :)
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> I haven't upgraded to Windows 10 yet — getting through a work crunch first (this is also my work computer!). What graphics card are you playing on?
Heh. Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
So far Windows 10 doesn't seem to be complete and utter fail.
It is just slightly faily but not as much as 8 was.
Hopefully future updates will hammer out the flaws upon the anvil of commercial success,
I have a weak and lame NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760. Not very hot but beggars...
> @06Bon06 said:
> Honestly too lazy to read but I will say Sims 4 runs better for me on Win 10 than it did on 7
Ah, laziness, one of my favs. Glad to hear that it works better for you.
I hope the same will be true for others as well.
That card is not weak at all and can run pretty much everything.
Sure, it won't do The Witcher 3 hairworks, but that spectacle will choke even more expensive cards.
It's like GeForce 9600 in a new robes. Buy once, runs whatever comes out in next 10 years.
You'll see it mentioned as recommended sys. requirement in recent games.
A fantastic card.
Yes I have it too. So am I subjective? Not really, I bought it way back expecting a decent performance and what I got exceeded every expectation I had.
Which errors if I may ask.
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Maybe I'll get around to dl'ing 10 this weekend.
Note: there are some things the little info didn't mention: like, you need to create a disc to force install win 10 when things like what happened to me happen. <sigh>
I'm too scared to update...
> Gulo wrote: »
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> I have a weak and lame NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760. Not very hot but beggars...
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> ROTFL
> That card is not weak at all and can run pretty much everything.
> Sure, it won't do The Witcher 3 hairworks, but that spectacle will choke even more expensive cards.
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> It's like GeForce 9600 in a new robes. Buy once, runs whatever comes out in next 10 years.
> You'll see it mentioned as recommended sys. requirement in recent games.
> A fantastic card.
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> Yes I have it too. So am I subjective? Not really, I bought it way back expecting a decent performance and what I got exceeded every expectation I had.
Eh, its all relative. Some people play the Sims, quest for glory and text games and others play extremely graphic intensive games like shooters.
A hardcore twitcher would see my rig as weakling casual, which is what I am.
Its not the card but the Sims 4 is so far the only game I can run with no major issues, Civ 5 and Skyrim gets hit with a huge memory leak issue.
The biggest problem I have with Windows 10 is that sometimes when I try to exit the game my screen reboots.
There goes my excitement that Windows 10 would speed up Sims for me -- my card doesn't get to use DirectX 12.
Back to work I go to get $$ for a new video card ...
Skyrim is, like SIms 3 and 4, another bug-o-rama. If you expect seeing no problems in that game, you're too optimistic.
Also, I said before.
Sims 4 does not use any DirectX 12 features nor benefits from them. If Sims 4 runs okay with existing GPU, there is no need to upgrade it to dx12 compliant one unless EA's plan is to make dx12 Sims 4 version.
Thanks! Good to know.
and @luthienrising you have heard that amd isnt providing w10 support for the 6000 series
Oh right. I knew there was something else. Thanks
(Not that I didn't want a new card anyway! But I just paid for a holiday and office renos. sigh)
(someday I hope to upgrade)
But at least it works on all my games, esp Sims games, so far.
Only one I haven't tested is the original The Sims.
(Will get to that eventually.)
arned him not to mess with things he doesn't know enough about.)
So far, I've had Sims 4 crash, out of nowhere, once.
Hopefully never again.
It's also very rare for any of my Sims games to crash, even Sims 3.
(usually it was only if I tried using the chat feature while in-game, and clicked on My Wall, during that time)