
I am thinking of upgrading my graphics card to GeForce GTS-450 (1GB). I use two hard-drives of 7200rpm in RAID 0 setup (using Intel motherboard built-in RAID controller). My computer specs are: Core2 Quad 2.4GHz, windows vista, GeForce 9600GT (512MB), and 8GBs of RAM DDR2. However, I am not sure what exactly needs improving!! I am considering upgrading my computer to improve the game's performance. The game used to play perfectly before installing the last 2 expansion packs. The game is pretty big, around 18GBs when installed.

However, the game every few minutes hangs up for like 10 seconds.


I have installed "The Sims 3" and all it's expansion packs.
