Just got off the phone with technical support to find out I have to buy a new darn video card graphics whatever its called. He said about $40 - $60. So I'm basically going to have to buy it to play this game :evil: I don't get the greatest hours to be paying this much for this game. I thought that EA was going to work it out to where us older computers (if you consider 4 years old) could play this friggen game! I was so excited to play but I was bound to get on and crash at the stupid Create A Sim. I'm so unhappy it's not even funny. Tomorrow looks like I got to go buy a graphics or whatever video? card.
Questions:
Does anyone reccomend a certain brand?
Best buy or walmart for prices?
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How do I get this thing into my computer??? :shock:
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hey there. post up your specs and I can probably recommend you some upgrades and links. I have built and upgraded computers before so I may be able to help you.
But the age does tell me that it is fairly slow. You can purchase fairly good computer from best buy or futureshop (if you live in Canada)at decent prices.
I have to buy a whole new computer to play.
It's much easier than you think since it is very hard to find any graphics cards at all offline that are worth it.
anything with 512 megs of ram you can find for $60 will go a long way.
ATI's HD2000 and 3000 line play the game well. I have an HD2900 which runs the game like a dream.
The other thing though, for performance, would be upgrading your CPU and ram. What the technician failed to mention is that although buying a shader model 2.0+ card will help.. it's not even close to the heart of the issue. Your 4 year old PC is too old. Grabbing an entire 99 dollar PC at a PC recycling center that is more recent will get you much farther than buying new parts (even then you might want to add some ram (DDRII) to it and a multithreaded CPU like the intel core 2 duo series).
You don't need a new video card, yours is supported If your having problems it might be with something else.
No, it should work fine.
shyshy0886, what emachines computer model do you have? It should say somewhere on the computer case. That would allow someone to look up the specs of your computer and recommend the best graphics card.
Now I have to call my emachine company to find out if I can even install a new Video card. Tomorrow I have to go to best buy to go through more struggle to find an affordable video card and I'll have to install it myself best I will NOT pay for something that I can figure out how to do on my own.
I am SOOOO stressed about this! EA had to make things difficult. My computer ran the Sims 2 JUST fine, no glitches no problems. I don't understand why it's taking so much just to get this. It truely is sad. I also hate seeing how many people are ALSO having problems! ITS ONLY THE FIRST DAY TOO!!....for some of us. How horrible is this that all of EA's loyal customers have to go through this BS? I WANTED TO complain and complain about this. Even though I should have been ready to be upset with this anyways...it is predictable.
Yeah I know I'm crying a lot, but I bought the game this morning and went to work. When I got home around 5 PM I hopped right to the task. It's now 9 35 here and I have gotten nowhere. I pretty much see that its going to cost me a lot of money to just get this video card!!!! I don't see anything $40 - $60 that will be able to run this!!!
I hope other people are having way better luck than I am!
Emachine Professional btw.