Results 1 to 5 of 5

Thread: Sims 3 Laptop Requirements?

  1. 23rd November 2009, 09:11 PM #1
    White 110's Avatar
    White 110
    White 110 is offline Master
    Join Date
    May 2006
    Location
    Brisbane
    Posts
    143
    Total Downloaded
    0

    Sims 3 Laptop Requirements?

    I've glazed over and nearly lost the will to live, but in simple terms can anyone tell me what sort of laptop I need to purchase to be able to run the Sims 3 computer game??

    Whatever I read and what ever I've been told by sales assistants in shops seemed to be contradicted by the next sentence or next article or gripe on a forum page that I read.

    I'd prefer to keep the price reasonable i.e. around the $1k - $1.1k area since it'll be mainly for the kids to play Sims 3 and for me to e-mail & surf the web, listen to iTunes and to load pictures onto.

    I was looking at a Dell Studio 13 XPS, but reading their forum page there appear to be alot of issues with compatibility and loading things like Sims 3.

    All this dedicated and integrated graphics card stuff leaves me confused. Give me a 300 TDi to service anyday?!?!?!?
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  2. 23rd November 2009, 09:21 PM #2
    dmdigital's Avatar
    dmdigital
    dmdigital is offline OldBushie Vendor

    Gold Subscriber
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Arnhem Land, NT
    Posts
    8,492
    Total Downloaded
    0
    Have you looked at the games' specifications: System Requirements - The Game - Community - The Sims 3

    At the end of the day anything better than that will be good to go. As with any software, dedicated graphics memory is better, faster processor is better and more system memory is better.
    MY15 Discovery 4 SE SDV6

    Past: 97 D1 Tdi, 03 D2a Td5, 08 Kimberley Kamper, 08 Defender 110 TDCi, 99 Defender 110 300Tdi[/SIZE]
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  3. 23rd November 2009, 09:54 PM #3
    White 110's Avatar
    White 110
    White 110 is offline Master
    Join Date
    May 2006
    Location
    Brisbane
    Posts
    143
    Total Downloaded
    0
    Yep looked at that but the thing that worries me is the comments such as:

    "Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly.
    Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants may default to settings that are higher than what would be optimal for them. Graphics settings can be lowered to improve performance. "

    Hence my "glazed" comment?!?!?!
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  4. 23rd November 2009, 10:03 PM #4
    dmdigital's Avatar
    dmdigital
    dmdigital is offline OldBushie Vendor

    Gold Subscriber
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Arnhem Land, NT
    Posts
    8,492
    Total Downloaded
    0
    Hmmm... I just remembered what I like so much about not being in IT anymore!

    Now I'm starting to glaze over!
    MY15 Discovery 4 SE SDV6

    Past: 97 D1 Tdi, 03 D2a Td5, 08 Kimberley Kamper, 08 Defender 110 TDCi, 99 Defender 110 300Tdi[/SIZE]
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  5. 23rd November 2009, 10:34 PM #5
    Hoges
    Hoges is offline YarnMaster Subscriber
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    Brisbane
    Posts
    3,234
    Total Downloaded
    0
    what's sims 3
    A much more useful device is an old laptop running Linux and loaded with RAVE plus a couple of hundred pages of sound tech advice from this website
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
« Logitech speakers | Next G prepaid doesn't speak to Macbook pro »

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Forum Rules

Search AULRO.com ONLY!
 Search All the Web!