Hey, sorry if this is the wrong discussion bit!
I've recently taken an interest in Sims 3 and would love to play it, I already play Sims 4 on desktop but want to have a go on laptop. I'm getting a Aser (don't know if that's how you spell it?) and wondered if there are any other good laptops for playing Sims 3? I'm thinking storage wise, since Origin and the Sims games are quite large, and looking for one with good quality to play it.
Oh, and one last thing, I'm mainly looking at buying off Amazon or Argos?
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specs you will need in a laptop
Video card: Nvidia GTX 1050,1050 ti or 1060
Processor: Intel i5 or i7
Hard drive space : at least 500 gb or more.
Computer ram: at least 8 gb
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If you post your budget and country , I can help you find a laptop. USD your looking at $800-$900 range. Prices vary in other countries and will cost more than the USA
I'm looking at £100-£200 pounds in budget, so what's the difference in Gigabyte and Terabyte? Looking for a large capacity of memory/storage to also do work on it as well as play Sims 3?!
A computer that will run this entire game or the most powerful EP's your looking at around 800 pounds or more. you will not find any computer in a 200 pound range to run this game. In the 200 pound range your looking at a cheap tablet or very low end laptop that is for general use and would have issues trying to run this game, if it would be able to run this game at all.
Laptop hardware is much weaker than desktop hardware and this game does require desktop hardware. To play on laptop your looking at a much more powerful laptop.
1000 gb = 1 terabyte .You might see 1tb listed as 1000 gb
I managed to get a family member's old laptop. It's a HP, just thinking would this laptop be good in playing and the quality?
Thanks for the advice by the way.
How well the older HP laptop will handle the game, or if it can at all, will depend on its specs not so much its age or branding.
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The laptop was a birthday present to the family member, who has yet moved onto Apple, it's mainly 3 years? Is the age and storage a problem to maybe affecting the game?
We need the specs of a computer to help determine if it can be expected to run TS3 and with which/how many EPs. Not its brand name or age. If you cannot provide us with the processor type/speed, RAM, graphics card and hard drive info, then I would ask for a full dxdiag report run on it and either pasted into several responses here (it would be too long to fit into one) or uploaded to pastebin.com and a link provided.
How to run a dxdiag: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information
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Sounds like heat was causing the glitches on your mac and large amounts of heat over a long period can really shorten the life span of your pc, so Glad you are thinking of buying another
Are you thinking desktop or laptop? Desktop will get you better performance at a lower price tag and you have the added option of upgrades in the future and better cooling. Laptops cannot be upgraded besides the ram so once you buy it that's what your stuck with for the life of the laptop.
Do you have space for a desktop? or do you absolutely need portability?
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I personally have not had issues...YET...and I mean YET, but that doesn't mean that the issues won't present themselves.
Given the choice between a "budget laptop" and playing TS3 on a proper gaming system; I'd take the latter.
To @rogey; if you have the cash outlay to purchase a proper gaming system, then it would be highly suggested to buy a gaming system per @chesterbigbird's suggestion for parts. As a matter of fact, take a look at the signature on her post...there's a baseline of what parts you should think about putting into your computer.
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dell makes laptops for gaming and for general use. This game does require a gaming computer
For this game on laptop you need below specs
Video Card : Nvidia GTX 1050, 1050 ti or 1060
Processor Intel i5 or i7 quad core for gaming, These processors will end in HQ or MQ after the processor series number
500 gb or move hard drive space. Do not get anything less than 500 gb
8gb computer ram
Highly recommend ASUS.
Then you can play with your simulated and much cooler sim family who will never ask you to take out the trash or to clean your room.
I managed to get my hands on a HP laptop. I've tried putting Sims 4 on it, yet it just says I have no space. So it clearly needs some space for Sims 3. I cleared everything, so it probably will work.
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We cannot make any kind of prediction nor give guidance on how well the games will run, if they will run at all, and with how many and which EPs unless we know the computer's specs. Not its brand name only or its birthday, its specs. Processor, hard drive (with space free), memory (RAM), graphics card. That's why we keep asking for dxdiag reports, they provide all of that information and more so we can make an informed prediction and give some guidance where it's needed.
A 3 year old HP with lots of stuff (apparently) on its hard drive gives us no useful information to go on. Zero. It could be expected to run the games brilliantly with all EPs and everything on high settings, or it could be a total non-starter and TS3/TS4 shouldn't even be attempted on it for fear of damaging the device beyond use. Or, usually and more likely, somewhere in between.
Neither does a Lenovo Ideapad 320, that's a range of laptops that run all over the place on specs so that's not enough information at all. On some models under that line the games would never run, on others they should but how well and how far one can take them will depend on other factors. All EPs on a 320 would likely not work or not for very long, these are not high end machines designed for that kind of stress, I believe that none of them have dedicated graphics cards, and they do not have adequate cooling systems.
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