My video card speed problem?

Does the Video card increase the game play's speed and performance?

• i admit it, im addicted to the sims 2 (all exp packs), and yeah. But, my performance is getting slower and slower, I might need to reformat soon, but to make better performance with higher quality smoothness other than just giving the game with high details in graphics, i want to make sure if the video graphic card increase the speed of the game play as well as the RAM, HD, and the CPU. Unless everything parallel with each other... .__.; then that would be a problem cuz then i might need to buy everything with high speculations... >_>;; Basically, i want to do this so i can make sims 2 movies and actually not lag in the game at all! >.<;; someone please help me!

• Answer:

  I play the Sims 2 + exp packs every once in awhile myself. A few things might make the game slower over time. 1. The more items you download, the longer the game takes to load 2. Frame rates will worsen with increased house size. A ton of items will also. Might try keeping the houses you build or import small to medium in size and items. 3. 8 people living in the house + house guests will slow frame rate. Especially if you're running the cheat to allow more than the suggested house guest limit for your RAM. The suggested limit is there for a reason. 4. The game is a memory hog. Try rebooting after each session. I notice a big difference after a fresh reboot with game play. 5. Turn down the graphics. If you're running an older card, displaying shadows might be dragging frame rates down. 6. Making sim video's uses more memory, thus slower frame rates. 7. If after all the above you're still having freezing or slowing, you might want to upgrade video card, video ram, and ram. (EA suggests 512mg ram, I suggest 1gig and a video card that has at least 256mg on it. If you're processor can't handle that much memory, upgrade that too)