I shudder to think of how it would behave on something near the lower end of the minimum requirements. Four minutes between the moment I click on the icon to the moment where I actually begin playing the game. (And even after all that, it still lurches and stutters for another twenty seconds or so as you swing the camera around and it pulls the resources into memory as they come into view.)įour minutes. Once that’s done, then I can begin playing. Then it goes into deep thought once again while it loads the house. After more hard drive calisthenics, the neighborhood appears and I can select a house. I select a neighborhood, and hunker down for another wait. Then it finally brings up the neighborhood selection menu. Then the game finally appears and shows me a couple of short but un-skippable logos for the usual suspects. (Which is foolish, since if I was a pirate it wouldn’t be doing the check at all.) I very strongly suspect some fancy CD interrogation is going on and the game is trying to make sure I’m not a pirate. I don’t need a launcher! I just clicked the thing, and that should have been enough to launch the game.) Then I click “play” and the computer sits there, silent and inactive for half a minute. When I click on the Sim 2 icon, it takes a bit to bring up the launcher. But this is the first time where load times have actually driven me away from a game. I picked up Sims 2 primarily to use as comic fodder, but also because it might be a fun diversion.
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