Comments on: The Sims 4: New Trailer on Saturday

By: Lioness

Lioness — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 08:48:07 +0000

@DarkAuthor13

i can run the Demo on my system with no problem but can you run it is saying i don’t have enough dedicated video ram (see below). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X1300 or Intel GMA X4500

You Have: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000

Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Required You Have
Icon Pixel Shader version 3.0 5.0
Icon Vertex Shader version 3.0 5.0
Icon Dedicated Video RAM 128 MB 32 MB

By: catloverplayer

catloverplayer — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:21:54 +0000

If there is a farming aspect it will probebly be combined with Sims 4 Pets whenever they release that.

By: catloverplayer

catloverplayer — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:20:52 +0000

Well it’s after midnight on the east coast. Prehaps the trailer will release within the hour in France or Germany and the English Version will be released in the morning. I”m just speculating. Either way I can’t wait to see it. I think it’s the launch trailer.

By: DerLetzteMonarch

DerLetzteMonarch — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:38:03 +0000

Many issues were caused by people themselves, but the fact that so many people, even on high-end computers had problems with the game being very unstable and having a terrible performance indicates the terrible programming that went into Sims 3.
Sims 3 follows no real logic when it comes to performance and the computers it is running on. There are people with very weak computers out there who never had any problems with the game and other people with very good computers who could barely play at all. CC and Mods doesn’t really matter, since some of those people who can run the game perfectly use a lot of those and others who have a lot of problems with Sims 3 use none at all. I’ve tried it myself. With or without Mods and CC, I’ll always get the same amount of lag, even though I am playing on a PC that succeeds the system requirements by far. Actually, I’ve even got less lag when I’m playing with some specific mods like Overwatch.
So, no, not all of the problems are caused by the game, but one thing remains fact: Sims 3 really is a shame for everyone who worked on it’s code! I would not make accusations like that because I have no Idea about coding, but a lot of modders have made that statement over the past five years, so there has to be some truth in it.

By: SimsPrime

SimsPrime — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:03:59 +0000

ya i intend to browse the forums to see if anything is interesting but mostly just check in here for news and hide out in some books….need to get back into my reading.

Im alittle on edge because the game is only 10 days away and im in Florida i see my luck with weather changing (i live only a few miles from the Atlantic, my town does boarder the ocean) that storm is supposed to strengthen and most models say it will turn and go off back into the ocean but well the timeline puts in right over us a week or less before the game comes out….Alex I’m in Melbourne/Palm Bay area directly across from you lol. Just not a good omen to me ya know.

By: wolfsilveroak

wolfsilveroak — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:51:59 +0000

That’s the thing- I’ve not experienced this instability, my husband never experienced it, my SiL nor my niece ever did. And none of us have had the game throw errors. So obviously it’s not entirely the game’s fault.

But also, none of us play with extensive mods or CC. The amount of CC and mods definitely has something to do with it and *that* is entirely on the player for adding them.

And if a player is installing the game on a system that can’t handle it, then again, that is not the game’s fault. That is the player’s fault.

People keep saying the game is junk, but most of the issues they experienced *they caused them themselves*.

By: Awesomemarc

Awesomemarc — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:32:10 +0000

One big change that *might* pacify the community this time around is a smooth running game. The frustrating bugs in TS3 was a nightmare for many simmers, and I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of complaints about that game came from furious players who suffered through annoying crashes, broken objects, and faulty programming, many of which have never been fixed. Hopefully a fresh start with a relatively glitch-free game was the top priority of the TS4 developers, and if so, it will do a lot to win people over from TS3.

By: Brie

Brie — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:56:45 +0000

I have a few expansion pack but I had installed university and after I installed island paradise my game constantly crash. I don’t have any mods and my computer is only two years old. I remember when I first bought the game and everything was fine until over time. I had a few mods but they were from a sims mod community site. I forgot the name but yo remember you could pay to get unlimited access to mods. they had all the mods for every sims game. But now I’m not even going to mod at all if that’s one of the problems. It’s a ton of money people spend on the game and after a while not being able to play it bothers me. It’s hundreds of dollars down the drain. I also hate having to patch my game which could be another problem. I just want to be able to enjoy my game or know where the problem is coming from.

By: pilouuuu

pilouuuu — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:28:03 +0000

It’s not the computer. The Sims 3 engine is a mess. Well, actually what helps the most to reduce the CTD is having lots of RAM. 6 Gb or more. That mostly solved the problem for me. But it didn’t reduce the awfully long loading times. What was the point of having an open world if it takes forever to load? I prefer what they are doing with TS4.

By: DerLetzteMonarch

DerLetzteMonarch — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:35:39 +0000

No, the crashing really isn’t the big problem with Sims 3, it’s the instability of the gameplay that makes the game so unbearable at times.
The crashing mostly occurs on systems that simply can’t handle the game, the number of which grew bigger and bigger the more Expansions were released, or is caused by defective mods, something that I’ve had some problems with quite a while ago.
The game did like to crash randomly in the time after it’s release, just as it constantly ran into errors that could completely corrupt your save files (had that happen to my first Sims 3 save file, it was a great loss), but most of those issues were luckily resolved over time. Same game-breaking issues are still present to this day, but it’s so few that you have to be pretty unlucky to run into them.