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I'm very used to slow so I find it quite playable. My internet is slow (Australia has poor internet generally) but it doesn't stop me playing GuildWars on my PC despite quite significant lag when I enter a Mission or new Area and when a Town is really busy.
In part it's down to people's standards.
Some people want to 'rush through' things and have the best possible graphics to look at. Some don't care.
Edit: I just wound some of my graphics settings up to high (of course I forgot to switch time machine off so I got booted out (dummy)) just to test. I could still speed up the action (though I didn't scroll around at high speed (3), but I don't anyway) and scrolling was fine paused and at normal speed. Things rendered a little slower but then I expected that.
I'll go back to default settings though because it's playable and I'd rather not push my MacBook too hard.
Now it runs fine.
I was so excited when I bought it today and I haven't even gotten past the installer button.
I click on it and it starts to open then just stops. I've searched and searched on the internet for reasons this might be not working and nothing seems to work.
I know that the sims 3 works on my macbook because I've read things people that have the same one as me have said about how amazing the game is. I'm gutted!
I haven't spent all that much time playing yet but the graphics look OK with medium specs. I see what people mean about the speed 4 time being slow but don't mind it myself, gives me a chance to stretch my legs or make a cup of tea while they sleep.
What I do miss is the ability to hide Sims screen and go back to other windows with Apple + H. Now if I want to check my email I have to quit the game.
(For how good the game is, too early to say, I still need to try things out. Ability to choose lifespan is great, interactions are a big improvement on Sims 2 and I love the moodlets. I found the house building tool a bit clumsy compared to Sims 2 but perhaps still have to get used to it.)
Pretty much the same for me... though I haven't upped the settings and my XP era PC is more like... 10+ years old. 1.8ghz Single core, 1gig ram, AGPx8. It was built around the time that SATA was just new and the drives were hence expensive. In short - not a hope of it running on my PC, and having no real comparison.
When I'm Playing TS3 it's the only thing I have running and i don't switch back to desktop at all. I do have slight pauses on occasion but they aren't enough to bother me. Of course, as my old PC can still do tasks like web surf and IM (and everything's networked) I can sit there with both machines on. Play TS3 or Spore on the MB (as spore doesn't run well on the PC and TS3 just won't) and Surf/IM/etc on the PC.
My only complaints are that I can't upload anything to the exchange, and it forever to download anything. Plus, I HATE how we can't place new lots down anywhere we want anymore. It's so limiting!
Well, up until my CD/DVD drive failed, but that's not really TS3's fault :P
They might well need a whole entire pack in order to give you town modding capability.