Sims 3 and Windows 7

shellyd_3

Can someone please tell me if the above will work. My son is getting a new Dell computer for christmas. I have purchased things in the passed for this computer (old now) and for some reason they didn't work.
I don't want him to be dissapointed on Christmas morning.
Can you also please tell me how to check if the graphics card will be OK. I think it is intergrated Intel Graphics media accelerator 3100.

Thank-you
Shellyd

davester

it will stuggle on that graphics card, I have the studio 15 and it works fine unless you turn off death and they have too many kids. It really is graphic intensive due to the nature of how the game works.


Minimum to run game not necessarily well
FOR WINDOWS XP

• 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1 GB RAM
• 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
• At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

FOR WINDOWS VISTA

• 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1.5 GB RAM
• 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1
• At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:

• Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above
• 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
• 0.5 GB additional RAM

shellyd_3

Thank-you for the reply, from the information it looks like it won't work on windows 7 anyway or is it the same as windows XP?

The comuter has intel duel-core 2.6GHZ 800FSB 2MB cache and 3072MB duel channel 800MHZ memory.
Must say this means nothing to me just got it from the dell print out.

thank-you
Shellyd

turbobob

I would guess that it would work on Windows 7. Windows 7 can run the majority of software that worked on XP or Vista, and has compatibility modes for software that is problematic. Hardware requirements are likely to be the same as to run the game on Vista.

The spec sounds like it'll run it - the processor is fast enough and there is enough memory. The Intel Graphics media accelerator 3100 does not really lend itself to games that are more taxing than this though.

davester

The Specs for Win 7 would be closer to Vista they are the same in many respects. There is a comment that the intel cards are sometimes set the Sims 3 default graphics settings too high and need to manually lower them when you first play. I would suggest cutting the distance down, not as pleasent to look at but will make the gameplay a little less jerky.

Another forum people posted it works fine without problem on Win 7 32 and 64bit versions.