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aikea-guinea replied to your post: /sobbing because Create-A-Sim runs at 130 fps now…...
Too many fps can burn out your graphics card, so be careful.
Yup, I know, but thanks for the warning! I've been monitoring it and seeing how it is handling different games, because I worry a lot about stuff like that. It's been staying pretty cool, which makes me happy. It's been around 30-40° C when not under load, and it peaked at about 67° when I was playing Bioshock Infinite, which is about the most demanding game I have, and TS3 was much cooler. Anything hotter than that starts to worry me, anyway. :S
aikea-guinea replied to your post:
Glad to hear you’re on top of it! I just hate the thought of burnt-out graphics cards. XD
Oh I know, that's a pretty terrifying phrase. I'm deliberately being careful because if I kill it somehow, I won't be getting another one for a long time.
I figured I'd share my Tumblr crushes. :D
Tumblinrob
Pixelatedwonderland
Gelinabuilds
Aikea-Guinea
Mytotalsims
Beaverhausen
TRmarxlegacy
Iamsimming
Slamasim
All of you are awesome! <3
tumblinrob reblogged this from dulfin and added:
Are you running in Win7 compatibility mode? (I don’t have Win8, so really have no clue)
Yeah, most of my games are set to run in compatibility mode. It doesn't seem to help very much, sadly.
aikea-guinea said:
I wish I could help. Both me and my husband have been using Win8 for quite a while now for gaming and haven’t had crashing issues. The one game that kept crashing for him was because of his processor.
Hm, interesting. My processor is just the basic one that came with my computer, an AMD A10-5700. It's a quad-core, that's really all I know about it. It had integrated graphics, but I now have my dedicated card, and that hasn't helped with crashing like I kind of thought it would.
On the other hand, my friend has the exact same computer as me, with the exact same upgrades that I did to it (Power supply and graphics card), and he says he has zero crashing problems.
Tumblinrob reblogged this from Dulfin and added:
My desktop runs Win7 and has an AMD quad core with 8GB of RAM. When playing the Sims, the processor will get to 4GB and the computer will freeze, Task Manager will show 100% processor usage yet another 4GB is still available. I have never had luck with AMD processors. My Intel purrs like a kitten on the laptop.
I've never had issues like that, interestingly enough. No 100% processor usage, just crashing. My computer sounds a bit similar, Windows 8 with an AMD quad core and 8GB of RAM, also. The Sims 3 runs fine most of the time, it just crashes occasionally.
This is my first ever HP. Before this computer I had 15 years of love tolerance for Dell. :P
Aikea-guinea said:
I don’t run my games in compatibility mode, for what it’s worth. Also, HusbandUnit’s processor is a quad-core and he had to reduce the number of threads or something, but that was a very specific game. Not sure it’ll help you. :/
I googled that and it sounded complicated. I've just been dealing with my crashing issues. The only game that drove me to my wit's end was Bioshock 2, but I struggled through that game with it crashing and corrupting saves the entire way until the end, and still managed to enjoy it somehow.
Oh jeez. My game just started doing Aikea-Guinea's frozen clock bug. : /
I was testing something out with a Midnight Sun family and they all stopped moving for awhile and it took me a bit to realize that the clock had frozen on Thursday 9:49 PM.
The game is still running, I can make sims do things, but they're all super static and don't move unless I tell them too, and nothing progresses.
I don't even have AwesomeMod, never used it before, and getting rid of it was her solution.
...Goes off to troubleshoot...
aikea-guinea replied to your post:Oh jeez. My game just started doing Aikea-Guinea’s...
Ok now THAT is weird! And I’m paranoid about my game breaking again.
I played my game again today for a little over an hour, and it was totally fine, no clock freezes. Hopefully it was just a hiccup and it doesn't happen again... though I wonder what's causing it?
aikea-guinea replied to your photo:MY GAME JUST BROKE. I was redoing the UL Coffee...
I remember someone mentioning one of the F keys will take you to the map view and fix it? I’ve never had it work, though maybe it’s worth a try.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. That fixed it! I think F2 did the trick. F1 takes you to Live Mode but that didn't work, but pressing F2 to go into Buy Mode brought the UI back for whatever reason!
I saved that lot to the bin so fast. Thanks for saving my coffee shop! :D