Comments on: This Is The Modern World: Sims 3 Specs Up

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:55:10 +0000

I do not meet the specifications, neither do most people I know. My issue is the CPU and the Video card. not fun.

By: Jessah

Jessah — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:25:13 +0000

“Out of interest – who here doesn’t have a PC that meets those requirements?”

*raises hand shamefully*
I only have 512 MB of RAM. Can’t even play SimCity Societies.

Even if it doesn’t work, I’m still buying the game. I can snuggle up with it on my lonely college nights, so it’s all good.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:58:08 +0000

I guess my 2,4 Ghz Core 2 Duo and 8600M GT wont do the trick, since it’s running MacOS X… sighs.

By: Al Ewing

Al Ewing — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:32:52 +0000

Little worried about my laptop, with the 2Ghz Vista setup. A lowly 3.6 on the score, let down entirely by graphics. On the other hand, it had no trouble running Spore, and surely Sims 3 will chug along without crashing out entirely… right? Right?

By: gunsmoke

gunsmoke — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:42:06 +0000

Even ‘I’, w/the once TOP of the line, now laughably obsolete, PC beat the specs. I have:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
ati Radeon 9800 Pro
1 GB pc2700 RAM
Windows XP sp3

so…thank goodness. I thought I was thoroughly through being able to purchase big, new PC titles off the shelf at the time of release.

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:21:59 +0000

@ sinister agent:
Rig is a great word, it makes me think of manly things like oil rigs, rigging, and errr…Runrig.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:02:48 +0000

“Not exactly mainstream, but plenty of people still buy hardware and build their own rigs, gamer or not.”

And how. At my work, 5 of 7 of us just bought new computers. All 5 custom built them (well, the most tech-savvy of us actually built them, but we all helped) because it saved us almost a GRAND each.

I can get a 1400 (canadian) desktop custom built, or get a slightly worse pre-made one for over 2000. Yeah, tough choice…

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:24:10 +0000

My PC doesn’t quite meet those requirements, unsurprisingly. But they’ve done a pretty good job to get it that low, especially considering how bloaty and slapdash a lot of the Sims 2 was.

I wouldn’t be surprised if modders quickly tweak it enough to play on an even weaker system, either. It’ll be interesting to see how easily the game will be to mod and tweak in general, come to think of it.

Also, why is everyone saying “rig”? It sounds silly and nerdy. Stop it.

By: Smurfy

Smurfy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:56:59 +0000

Even the old family comp which we finally replaced last year with an awesome Notepad-capable rig could handle this. Barely though, it had a Radeon 9500.

WAIT WHAT EDIT IS BACK :OOOOO

By: Stenl

Stenl — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:34:13 +0000

I have a 3.0 on my laptop, because I have some rather shite Ati integrated video card.

On the subject of Q6600, I think it is one of the most common processor amongst gamers, I know about 3 people besides me who have one.

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:32:35 +0000

Spot-on Alec. My high-end rig from 4-5 years ago has almost these exact specs barring a slightly beefier CPU.
On the other hand, my mother and sister? Big Sims players (Ikea expansion etc.). And their PC has been upgraded in the last year or so (Trying to think what might have prompted this, Oblivion, WOW perhaps?) and I believe will run this game. Which is good for them.
Thankfully, I’ve steered ‘em away from Vista so they’re gonna benefit from lower minimum specs. Might have been a close one had they got a Vista machine, and trust me when I say that EA would be penniless fools if they pitched the specs too high and rule people like my mother and sister out of the market (Yes, and they bought the Sims H&M pack too).

By: Max

Max — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:35:08 +0000

My system gets a 5.9 overall in Vista too (snore) but what’s interesting is that the limit has been raised to 7.9 in Windows 7 – the beta of which I tried out on my gaming desktop.

Here’s a screenshot if you want to see:

http://e.imagehost.org/0510/Windows7WEI.jpg