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Old November 25th 04, 04:23 PM
Eddie Crismond
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kony wrote:

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:39:21 -0500, Eddie Crismond
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I am still afraid however, that she may not be happy with the
performance of The Sims! 2 + Windows XP/2000 on this 600Mhz system. The
Sims! 2 + Windows 98SE may be a consideration.



It's not 2K or XP that'd be slowing it down, it's the CPU
and amount of memory, memory bus speed, etc (maybe video
card too?). Win2K or XP might need a few dozen more MB of
memory than Win98, but putting that into context of a system
that has 512MB and SIMM games which are notorious for
needing piles of memory (usually 1GB is a good target), and
the OS isn't going to be enough of a difference to matter
during gaming, expecially due to DirectX/GL the OS itself
will have minimal impact.


Ok, when I read the minimum system requirement (linked to in another
post on this thread), it showed that Windows 98SE needed half as much memory
as the other two OS's. I took this to mean that Windows 98SE would need
less memory to achieve the same performance. But I will take your word
for it that the reason 98SE needs half the memory in these system
requirements is only a consideration for the requirements of the OS
itself irregardless of what applications are being run on it.

snip

I may consider building her a new system. I doubt I will be able to use
the Compaq EN Series case. The Compaq MB has a PCI riser card.



You might be able to buy an upgradeware Tualatin Celeron
adapter and get the system up to ~ 1.4GHz or so, don't know
for sure if the board would be compatible or not. Otherwise
it might make a router, fileserver or ??? someday.


Putting a Tuatalin Celeron on this board is an interesting idea. I think
that, with a T&L video card, would have to make The Sims! 2 playable.
This is a sloted CPU. I guess its a slot 1. I assumed it would be a
socket 370 before I looked in the case. But I have an Asus slotket
laying around. Would make a fun experiment anyway I'll have to check
prices on the Upgradeware Tuatalin Celeron. Or if nothing else, this box
might make a good Linux test bed.





But, I also have a Dell Dimension with Pentium III 866Mhz, 384MB SDRAM,
ATA-100 hard disk controller and what ever else I decide to throw in it.
This may be more suited for The Sims!2. So trading her the Dell for the
Compaq is worth considering.



MIght be though 384MB is a little light for the SIMMS too,
someone I know is playing on a box with 768MB and wondering
if they should upgrade to 1280MB. 384MB is a nice size for
moderate WinXP use though.


Yes, its a shame we need 100's of megabytes just for moderate use. Like
word processing, email and web browsing. I can see the Sims! 2 wanting
a 1024MB though.

Thanks again for your reply
Eddie