Can Sims 4 Run On Only 128MB Of VRAM?

[@doctorletsplay]

Well... the optimization was their #1 mission they had. Sims 3 was extremely laggy and they were expecting the sims 4 to have ALOT of DLCs so they had to make it well optimized

[@baroncalamityplus]

The game wasn't running on any of the cards that didn't have drivers install. Which is why the frame rate was the same. It was running completely on your CPU and just the standard video bios of the card was used to display raw pixels. DirectX can be run completely on the cpu and it is when the Microsoft basic display adapter is used. Most games will crash if you attempt to use the MBDA or run extremely slow. Though some early 2000's games will run fine as well and sometimes better. The Sims 4 was program to run in that environment. No matter what card you use, if you get a display out with modern windows, The Sims 4 will work. Now if you really want to test the vram limits, the best solution is to get a laptop that uses integrated graphics and from the bios, reduce the vram. PS: I did read the notes.

[@BudgetBin]

That was something I was worried about with some of the cards that didn't have drivers installed on them. Still impressive that Sims 4 works with DirectX to achieve this. I want to do some follow up research like you mentioned with a laptop maybe in in the future. Just got to figure out the best budget options and routes for that. P.S. thanks for reading the notes and watching the video!

[@WellBeSerious12]

Gaming now-a-days is fucking schway! Soo many free games (soo many of which are at least good), very easily accessible cheap hardware (mostly older, but even 50-currency computers can get you decent older gaming performance). Gaming is cool (makes this a meme)! Also your phrase 'a developer's game' is such an interesting oxymoron/meme.

[@Dtr146]

Man I remember back in the day where the r7270 was lighting up arguments on the internet. People swore up and down that the 1gb gdDR5 what's better than the two GB DDR3 version. I had the ladder and my sister had the former. She had a lot more stuttering than I did. Mainly because the games we played it didn't really matter about the speed of the ram. It just a mattered that we had enough.

[@xbuildscustoms]

Yeaaaaaa baby! that external fan lmao🤣🤣videos like this is a perfect example of no need for the latest and greatest parts for someone who is only playing specific games..great video!

[@BudgetBin]

Thanks man, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@kparserpcs6699]

the editing at the beginning is priceless. "oh wait this is a video"

[@TommySuX]

this was a great video! fun premise and fun results. hope to see more from you :D

[@BudgetBin]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it!

[@Dtr146]

Oh man. I feel you on the AMD driver shenanigans. It took me like three times to find a correct driver for an RX 560 4 GB because it kept thinking it was an RX 460 4 GB. And the performance was worse too which was the bad part when I ran it as the 460 with the drivers

[@josephdias5859]

thats because they are the same exact card just 560 is clocked higher than a 460. such as his 6450 and a 7450 both were ther same terascale card just rebranded for older amd drivers you need to go to the legacy drivers page otherwise its just generic drivers

[@justsumguy2u]

What you experienced when trying to run older Radeon cards is also what I've encountered---driver support is sketchy at best. Nowadays if I'm buying an older card, it's always NVIDIA---excellent driver support. And yeah, I play Sims 4....but with an RTX 2060 and 32 GB of RAM lol

[@RuruFIN]

Would be interesting to see this on a faster 128MB card, like 6600 GT or 6800 for example

[@BudgetBin]

I was thinking about doing that, especially if I could get good drivers for those cards to run on Windows 10.

[@panda_0ne12]

Ikd how that got to my recommendations but, I'm thankful it was. Nice video, keep up the good work man !

[@BudgetBin]

Thanks it means a lot!

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

The main issue you'd run into with only 64 MB of VRAM would be finding PCIe cards. Most of the cards from that era are either AGP or PCI, which would require a converter or an older motherboard.

[@zotvc64]

try it again with older OS? maybe the drivers would work in XP or 7,8 idk. great video as always !

[@BudgetBin]

Thanks! :)

[@EvoWatches]

ATI 107 type B is not half bad

[@TheLostOne172]

Hol on i gotta tell my friend they didn't need to buy an rtx 4090.

[@Brudumbo]

128mb of vram is hilarious i thougt my gt 710 is trash

[@thealien_ali3382]

Gt710 the meme of GPUs even became king here

[@LowcastleTech]

Can you run the entire Metaverse on one of those?

[@BudgetBin]

Maybe, but it might cost you the Metaverse in the process.

[@LowcastleTech]

@@BudgetBin 🙂Fair.

[@MarcosCodas]

I think it may be using your RAM as VRAM? Just spitballing.

[@dkizilkaya6839]

128mb hahahahah unbelievable.

[@mohamedmostafamohamedmahbo5706]

so you could run this game on 30 $ pc

[@BudgetBin]

Pretty much!

[@thealien_ali3382]

​@@BudgetBinI love u

[@marcellawaganer420]

🤪 "promo sm"