OFB....How do computers handle it

Once upon a time, I had the meanest machine on the scene... a 2.1 GHz
AMD processor, a Gigabyte of RAM, yada yada. I could look at the specs
of any software box, puff out my chest, and laugh.

Now I find even Sims Nightlife tests my machine in the larger lots, and
some of the stuff I've downloaded is so complex and detailed it turns my
game into a slide show. Also, I can't get as many sims on my lots as
I used to as lot complexity goes up.

So I was wondering how bad the newly-created lots in OFB slams one's
computer. It's not really in my budget to get a new computer till Xmas
at the earliest, and this one is upgraded as far as it can go.

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--Cuth

"Cuthbert Gurdlestone" <chgurdlestone1154.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Once upon a time, I had the meanest machine on the scene... a 2.1 GHz
> AMD processor, a Gigabyte of RAM, yada yada. I could look at the specs
> of any software box, puff out my chest, and laugh.
>
> Now I find even Sims Nightlife tests my machine in the larger lots, and
> some of the stuff I've downloaded is so complex and detailed it turns my
> game into a slide show. Also, I can't get as many sims on my lots as
> I used to as lot complexity goes up.
>
> So I was wondering how bad the newly-created lots in OFB slams one's
> computer. It's not really in my budget to get a new computer till Xmas
> at the earliest, and this one is upgraded as far as it can go.

Well, as I think my first post about OFB said, it runs much, much, much
better than NL.

Basically, with OFB, I get a 10-20 fps more, despite running graphics
completely on full, while in NL, I had it set on medium.