Help on System requirements for a Game coming out in the near future!!!

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And ya as Jerry Pang has stated, do not buy GeForce MX series... Best in Ti Series is Ti 4800. But is quite ex. and also FX5800, also very ex. And actually getting an ATI will be a better choice now as its performance for value is much higher then nVidia's cards...
As for HL2 and Doom 3(not 2) these games have super high end graphics and can only be run at high settings by extremely few cards out of those available in the market today..

The minimum requirements stated here on this particular website for sims 2:
http://sims2.servopro.com/sysreq.htm

The following is a list of preliminary system requirements for Sims 2. These are official requirements from Maxis, however, as the game is still being fine-tuned, these requirements may change at any time without notice. You can download a program to check your System Specifications.
Windows 98, 2000, ME, or XP
128MB of RAM for Windows 98, 2000, or ME (256MB of RAM For Windows XP)
A graphics card with T&L (Transform & Lighting) support, eg ATI Radeon 7000 series or better, or nvidia GeForce 2 or better. Not TNT2, Intel, Rage etc.
CPU: 600MHz Pentium 3 or equivalent (if you have a graphics card which supports T&L). Those who do not have a graphics card which supports T&L will need a 1.5GHz.
Monitor Resolution: 800x600 minimum, 1024x768 recommended. Higher resolutions available.
Keyboard, mouse, speakers

so the requirements as of yet are not excruciating. You can buy a midgrade system or even a lowend system either Intel P4 or AMD, for roughly around $400-600 and will beat most of the requirements here. Only thing I'd really not skip out on is the video card.
Go with any of the ones recommended above.

We're not talking about HL2 or Doom3 or even 2. She's asking about just the Sims 2 I believe.

here is a few more sites on requirements for Sims 2:
http://compsimgames.about.com/cs/thesims2prerele/f/systemrequireme.htm
http://www.indigocs.com/ts2/requirements.htm

And direct from sims 2 website:
http://thesims2.ea.com/about_system_specs.php

They suggest an ATI Radeon 9800. Or a Geforce 4 (non specific) but a Geforce card capable of keeping up with the 9800 would be the high end TI 4800 Card. Or Geforce FX (basically Geforce 5 cards) cards

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Just stating what has been stated by the company. And actually the ATI Radeon 9800 card is at a lower price than it has been. Can be found in the states for under 300. Whereas the higher Geforce FX 5900 and 5950 are still topping a high price of around 400-550 US dollars.

Actually I take that back.....

$200, for a Radeon 9800 128mb Video card.
http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?b=g&oid=80847&sourceid=qIbAP82nBw58AlrDJSRX&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&affiliateid=39502629&goTo=detail&c=1&b=g

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It's not the SE Model. It's not the Pro model either....it's just the regular 9800.

>We're not talking about HL2 or Doom3 or even 2. She's asking about just the Sims 2 I believe.
> Help on System requirements for a Game coming out in the near future!!!
I think shes also asking about the near future games. =)

$30-$100 - RAM - 256 is ok perfermance. I you can afford go for 512mb.
$50 - HDD - 20-40gig, if you can afford go for 80 or 160gigs.
$100-300 for Videocard(GForceFX or equivalent)
$50 for Videocard(MX series or equivalent)
$100 for motherboard
$200+ for CPU - P4 (2+ ghz )
$200 Monitor,mouse, misc

New computer $700 - $1000
Upgrade Cost - $300-$500

In 2 or 3years time most Top games would probably require at least Video card
with T&L support and Vertex shading(not found in Gforce MX series.)
If you plan to buy the GforceMX series or equivalent then avoid high end new games like silenthill3,halflife2 and the like.

next generation games would require you at least GforceFX or Ti equivalent.
i highly recommend at lease gforceFX or equivalent.

A ~2GHz XP2600 333 is about $87. A motherboard for it can be gotten for about $50 (nForce2 Ultra400). $62 for 256MB Corsair CL2 ram. Get two sticks for dual channel memory. A GeForceFX 5700 Ultra (475MHz GPU/900MHz DDR) is $175. A case is around $30 (includes shipping and handling).

daggoth_666

Sorry, completely off topic.
@Jerry.
"not sure about radeon. (i dont like radeon - its buggy)"

Two years ago i chose Geforce over Radeon as i knew NVIDIA was large and was often updating it's software drivers.

I have now a radeon 9600 pro and it rocks.
The drivers are often updated and i can't see ATI going bust anytime soon.
To say radeon is buggy is just wrong. The performance and stability of my card is incredible.

Saying radeon is buggy is like saying Athlons over heat, i mean, i know at least five guys with NEW athlons and none of them are running hot. These things are hard to get out of our syetems when we hear negative feedback.

daggoth_666
PS. I don't dislike GeForce but i do like the quality, price and performance of Radeons better.

One thing that bothers me about them is that their GPUs and memory chips run slower than comparable GeForce cards and they still keep up very well. This is like one of those "My G5 runs at 1.8GHz and it's faster than your 50GHz overclocked P4!" things. The GPUs on Radeons seem to be more advanced as they do more clock cycles per second. The setback is the speed, since it's not advanced enough. The fastest ATI has is the 500MHz GPU on the Radeon 9600XT. The 9800XT's GPU runs at 412MHz or something. What in the world?

Thank you,
Radomir Jordanovic

daggoth_666, guess its stable now. i had a game that frequently crash, i made some reasearch about the game and i found that mostly
"it crashes from radeon's ","Issues with RAdeon" sumthing like that.
the game was "medieval total war". i made some research on radeon's site about gaming,
ther are lots of problems with the game if you dont notice..
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon9600/radeon9600issuesgames.html
there are still lots of problems on other games.
im prettry sure gforce has too but i cant find it.

take a look on other radeon video cards and look at technical issues on games.

Halo has problems running on nVidia cards.

Well, lets move on....this question appears to be abandonned. We need a Pretty girl to come and comment first....

Too late. The first comment was by Jerry_Pang.

eh?

Read it again.

daggoth_666

Jerry_Pang.

I can't figure out whether or not you are trying to put the Radeon down or not...
Anyhow, if you have a look at the link and browse each one you will notice most of these problems are addressed in the latest issue of drivers... which is what i was trying to say... ATi have increased their response times to these issues and most are ironed out and if not are being... i'm sorry, but ATi are now ahead of nVidia which is why ATi is partnered with the producers of HL2 and you get a free copy when you purchase an ATi card.

If you want to play top end games, with top end graphics you need a top end card - i would reccomend a Radeon 9600 pro, 9800 pro or 9800 XT... that is, if you are serious.

daggoth_666
i sound like a advertisment or something...

Radomir ok? i still dont get it....the asker (Prettygirl) still hasn't commented on our comments?
What does that have to do with Jerry posting his comment?

Well, lets move on....this question appears to be abandonned. We need a Pretty girl to come and comment first....

Too late. The first comment was by Jerry_Pang.

Because there was an a before Pretty, you made it seem as if you needed any pretty girl to comment first. However, the first comment, or reply, to this was by Jerry. It was just a simple joke. Sorry about the confusion.

>i sound like a advertisment or something...
hehe.. me too.

i like nvidia cards better.