LOL ok higgins. What I meant is that I don't have one of the supported/recommended graphics cards (Radeon or nVidia) for playing for TS2.
Edit: Actually, then can you explain what HystericalParoxysm is saying in
http://forums.sims2community.com/sh...7561#post967561 thread then?
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Intel chips are notorious for degrading over time - your chip is dying. It's not really a chip meant to run games but to browse the internet, run spreadsheets, word processing, etc. - it's supported because it's very common but it's not meant for gaming. I had the same problem before I upgraded - 915G/GV (very similar) just going crappy and blurry and ugly over time with worse and worse performance - which was fully fixed when I upgraded. Look into what your computer can get and get a real graphics card (assuming it's not a laptop). Integrated Intel will just continue going bad until it eventually dies - and it can take more with itself if it does eventually go "Ack!" and die, being so integrated with your motherboard. Upgrade before it does. If it is a laptop and you can't upgrade... run all the game's settings down as low as you can - lowest resolution, etc. to prevent overstressing it. I don't think a defrag is really gonna do a whole lot though it's good to do in general... the problem is that you're simply putting too much strain on a chip that was never truly designed for or capable of handling that kind of heavy load.
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I have an Intel chip, so I thought it wasn't actually a graphics card (though obviously I can see graphics on my computer and everything).
And I swear I'm not so computer-illiterate when it comes to non-hardware-related matters.