Sims2 iMac -- again

I've seen related posts but I can't get a clear answer. My daughter's current flat-panel iMac runs Sims very slowly. For that, and other reasons it's time for a new iMac for her. The 20 inch, 2GH seems to meet the requirement from Aspyr, but some posts seem to indicate the ATI Radeon 9600 is a problem. My question, will Sims2 run as well as it does on my G5? and should I consider the 1GB DDR400 SDRAM - 1 DIMM option? So far Sims 2 is the only problem, but since she's 11 now, I assume the newer programs she will soon be using will have higher requirements as well. Suggestions?

Hi Michael, I had seen your post earlier which only added to my confusion. Your G5 had 1g ram. Now I've been using macs since 1993 and I currently have four of them which I keep running quite smoothly (as well as my friends) but I never have to deal with GHZ, L2 cache, frontside bus, or video cards except when I go purchase a new one. The software companies don't call things the same as the hardware companies (nor does apple name things the same way sites like apple-history.com does) so it's hard to compare. I know it must be hard for people who deal with this stuff all the time to deal with us "newbies" who don't upgrade every month, but I buy more than I need, and when I outgrow it I buy a new one but I still don't have a handle on it.
You said in the previous thread "my rev b g5 1g ram isn't playing some games the way it's meant to"
Aspyr says "CPU Speed: 1.2GHz or faster"
the iMac I'm looking at says "2GHz PowerPC G5"
Are they all talking about the same thing?
Lo Nicholas answered you "it is impossible to update the graphic card on iMac. Becoz the graphic chipset (ati 9600) is onboard."
but Aspyre says "Video Card (ATI): Radeon 9000 or better".
I don't know if I'm comparing apples to apples or apples or oranges when I'm trying to figure out if my daughter's (future) brand new imac to be configured:
20-inch widescreen LCD
2GHz PowerPC G5
667MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
(upgrade) 1GB DDR400 SDRAM - 1 DIMM
250GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (double-layer)
ATI Radeon 9600
128MB DDR video memory
56k internal modem
will run a game that requires:
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.8 or later
CPU Processor: PowerPC G4/G5
CPU Speed: 1.2GHz or faster
Memory: 256 MB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 3GB free disk space
Video Card (ATI): Radeon 9000 or better
Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX5200 or better
Video Memory (VRam): 32 MB or higher
Media Required: DVD Drive
I'm just looking for a practical answer. All I know is it runs great on my G5:
Machine Name:     Power Mac G5
Machine Model:     PowerMac7,3
CPU Type:     PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs:     1
CPU Speed:     2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU):     512 KB
Memory:     2 GB
Bus Speed:     1 GHz
Boot ROM Version:     5.1.8f7
Serial Number:     G85022VRQPR
As well as my G4 powebooks, but slow on her G4 Flat Panel iMac configured:
CPU: PowerPC 7450
CPU Speed: 700/800 MHz
FPU: integrated
Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Data Path: 64 bit
ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM
RAM Type: PC133 SDRAM
Minimum RAM Speed: 133 MHz
Onboard RAM: 0 MB
RAM slots: 2
Maximum RAM: 1 GB
Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 32 kB instruction
Level 2 Cache: 256 kB on-chip, 1:1
All I want to do is run Sims2 since I figure it is a good test of things to come for her. I'm looking for someone with this configuration (or someone who knows) to tell me if she can play Sims2 on the iMac I'm looking at.

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Curious what other designers are doing. I also keep my computer screen facing a window- so I don't know if glare will be an issue with a gloss screen (it's no problem at all right now with the matte imac screen. thanks for any input!

While the opinion on screen quality towards different users is still uncertain, I'd recommend trying a different strategy working with those large files. For starter, merge those layers that don't need to be separated. I have worked with files as large as 700 mb on a G5 tower, it worked just fine with expected amount of processing time. With that been said, your G5 iMac is in fact lacking on performance when compare to the desktop G5s... The new iMac 24 inch is impressive not just in size. I have just bought one for one of the designers at the office, though the glass screen is a bit different compare to the usual Mac display, everything else is fantastic. The screen does appear to be a little grainy, just like the usual iMac screen, but depends on how close you sit in front the computer, you may not notice it. The glass front gives everything a coated look vs. uncoated. It may not give you 98% true color, but which designer rely on monitor for color accuracy anyway... You will have to get a match print like later regardless. What I am saying is the color on the screen is saturated a little but acceptable. I'd go to the store and check it out yourself.

Time Machine stopped backing up iMac

My Time Machine has stopped backing up my iMac. It is a 2Tb TM with 693GB still available and has been working fine since I got it out of the box in August 2012.
Watching the process a few times it seemed to get stuck on calculating changes. Investigating this I then followed instructions to delete com.apple.TimeMachine.plist from the root library, restart the Time Machine and iMac, then reconnect the Time Machine to the iMac, at which point there is a 120 second countdown and the backup starts.
No luck. Still calculating changes. I let the process just run for days and days without altering anything on my iMac. No backups taken.
I followed instructions to verify disk and it said that there was descrepancy. So I then followed instructions to boot on MAC OS X installer disk a verify and repair hard disk. Result was that after repair it said everything looks OK.
Again retried the reboot and iMac/Time Machine again several times, gets through scanning and then preparing items but never actually backs up.
Downloaded the widget and it says that UUIDs don't match and goes into an indexing routine;
Waiting for Index to be ready (101)
for quite some some the says
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
I leave the process to run but never seems to actually backup. I get an error
Error: Flushing index to disk returned an error: 0
I then leave it to run on its own schedule for several days but still not backup complete.
Time Machine says last backup was 28th May 2014.
I should add that the same Time Machine is regularly backing up my Macbook Air as normal without the same issues. My iMac is OSX 10.6.8.
How can I get Time Machine to start backing up my iMac again?

Deleting the sparsebundle worked. Eventually.
Much like other posts I had to connect to Time Capsule from a Windows machine to delete the sparsebundle. Didn't seem to want to from my iMac!!!
Took a day to delete the sparsebundle and another half day (over ethernet cable) to do the backup but since then backups performing properly.
Thank you.

Sims2 iMac -- again

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