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The Sims 3 and Windows 10
MalwareHunter
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I apologize if this question has already been asked, but does anyone know whether or not the Sims 3 will work with the new Windows 10 operating system coming this summer?
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Windows 7 8 9. Duh.
Ah, right, I should have known. My b. XD
But if I can't play Sims 3 on it I won't need a computer.
There is a list somewhere of graphics cards that won't work on Windows 10.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
But the best advice is to not rush into any kind of update on a computer where you expect to continue playing TS3. Far too many unknowns to contend with.
One should still be able to buy new computers with Win 8.1 for quite a while. That option doesn't typically disappear overnight when a new OS is released.
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I am currently running Windows 10 Home Insider Preview Build 10130 on my laptop and I've had no issues with gameplay at all. Now this may vary between different laptops and if something were to change in Windows 10 when it is "officially launched."
According to my dad, they skipped 9 because someone deemed it an unlucky number.
I only have Windows 8 because my laptop came with it when I bought it. Windows 7 was enough for me.
Edit: And the first one who says, "Oh yeah, my grandparents used to talk about those!" gets smacked in the shins with igazor's walking stick.
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In Japanese culture, to take one example, the number 9 is considered unlucky, because it's pronounced "Ku", which shares similar pronounciation to "agony" or "torture"*. Come to think of it, it might be the reason why Windows 95 came after Windows 3.1, not Windows 4, since it's pronounced as "shi", which is similar to the pronounciation of "death".
On TS3 side of things, I don't know. Windows 10 is still kinda "up in the air", although I do have hope that it will run. MS has a weird tendency to make one good version of Windows, then one bad version, and it repeats, like a pattern.
*It could be argued that Windows is torture incarnate. :P
Talk about them?i had a 95 and 98 ,even a 2000,ect.dial up was a pain as well
And if somebody badmouths XP, I'll smack them with my japanese sword cane.
In the meantime, I have been pointed towards an illustrated post on The Naughty Sims Asylum where a player with the beta release of Win10 explains how they got TS3 running on it. They hadn't tried TS2 yet. Seems very simple; compatibility mode actually does work for them. Not taking that to the bank just yet, but it looked a lot more encouraging than other earlier reports.
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I hope the encouraging reports are correct.
Perhaps a tiny bit too much to hope for?
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> One theory out there is that they skipped "Win 9" because in certain contexts it looks too much like "Win 95" and "Win 98."
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If one doesn't count Windows versions such as NT and 2000 (both were marketed more towards businesses) or versions such as 3.1, 98SE (second edition), XP Home, XP starter, XP Professional, etc... but the base versions such as 1, 2, 3, 95, etc... Then technically Windows 7 would be Windows 9 where as Windows 10 should actually be called Windows 11.
I know the Window 9x series (Win 95, 98 and ME) are mistakenly referred to as Windows 9 by those who don't realize the 9x is referring to either 95 or 98 (and ME which was the last of the 9x kernel series before Windows XP to the current version went to the NT kernel for the OS).
BTW igazor I remember the first Windows PC we got being the Windows 3.1 OS and playing games like Wolfenstein 3D on it, so win 95 and Win 98 are nothing, in fact I have used PCs that the OS was from Windows 3 up to Windows 8 (actually owned a computer with each OS other then NT and 2000 at one point or another, though the Win 8 computer is now my moms, I am using Win 7 on my laptop).> @JoAnne65 said:
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> How about: "Oh yeah, I worked with those!" ;) And I played games on a Commodore 64 soooo....
> I hope the encouraging reports are correct.
Oh yeah well I used to play games on both a Commodore PET and the Commodore 64 and and Apple II (granted the Apple II and Commodore PET were at school, the Apples were the computer lab in elementary and the Commodore PET was one of about 5 that a teach had in the classroom for the kids to play on as rewards, though we did own the 64 when I was growing up before moving to the PC with Win 3).
Nope.
And I'm afraid I can go back a lot further than that. My high school computer projects were done in BASIC. That's not unusual, but they were compiled on a mainframe, each line represented by a card with the codes meticulously filled in with #2 pencils and run through a card reader in stacks. Punch card machines and punch tapes weren't new, but to our school they would still have been luxuries. I wonder how many trillions of "cards" it would take to load up TS3 and all EPs each time?
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