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    • dk4ofjoshuayhyudk4ofjoshuayhyu Posts: 454 New Member
      edited December 2009
      I'm running my game in a 2-year-old-$3500 Notebook.

      And wow mate, you have

      AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
      4 GB RAM
      nVidia GeForce 9600 GTs

      And I'm using:

      Intel Core 2 Duo T 7500 2190 MHz
      2 GB RAM
      nVidia Quadro FX 570 M

      I can't be more jealous. And I don't even have an HDMI Port!
      The best bet for me is to install Linux and Virtual Computer, then Windows XP, into my PS3!

      By the way, how much did you spend on this machine?
    • WindsorErickWindsorErick Posts: 2,796 New Member
      edited December 2009
      Is this what I need to hook up my tv:

      ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 with 512MB Discrete Video Memory (Ports: 2x DVI-I, S-Video includes DVI-HDMI & DVI-VGA Dongles)
    • playermarko456playermarko456 Posts: 4,972 Member
      edited December 2009
      WindsorErick, you are so lucky to have the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 with 512MB! :shock: I only have the ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 with 1GB which is inferior to yours. I want your graphics card! Lucky! :-o
    • darkgoddessdarkgoddess Posts: 1,372 New Member
      edited December 2009
      i was going to do that, now your renewed my interest lol.

      i only have a 46 inch samsung lcd tv. but im going to try and hook it up to my mac and see what its like. :)

      now im going to have to go out and buy 3 cables.
    • katmandoo3katmandoo3 Posts: 719 New Member
      edited December 2009
      Whoa...how do you do that?! My family just got a new flat-screen!
    • katmandoo3katmandoo3 Posts: 719 New Member
      edited December 2009
      ???

      How do you do it??
    • ilovesims56ilovesims56 Posts: 6,331 Member
      edited December 2009
      Bump.. :D
    • Msnewme09Msnewme09 Posts: 160 New Member
      edited December 2009
      i do the same with my 50 inch t.v. from my hp laptop. It looks so great!
    • HaidenHaiden Posts: 3,841 Member
      edited December 2009
      :lol:

      Post edited by Unknown User on
    • LufferkinzLufferkinz Posts: 2,600 New Member
      edited December 2009
      Nice because we have a TV that's oh I don't know, 4 or 5 feet long in width :twisted:
    • SimsLoverX3SimsLoverX3 Posts: 8 New Member
      edited December 2009
      That looks so amazing. I think I'll have to try that. Question: does the size of your tv screen have anything to do with how it looks? Scratch the question, your step-by-step run through is really helpful. Again it looks amazing and great idea!
    • HaidenHaiden Posts: 3,841 Member
      edited February 2011
      sorry Guys I hit the save button while in the middle of posting

      here we go again.....

      Seeing that a couple of you guys asked so nice as to how its done to get it to play on your flat screen.....I thought I would do my best possible to explain

      1. You need a HD TV or HD Ready TV
      2. If you want the game in full HD your lappy or graphics card should have
      and support full HD out and a HDMI cable.
      3. If you dont have an HD graphics card, you can still use the standard VGA pc
      monitor cable, providing that your TV has a VGA in port.


      For full HD
      You need a HDMI cable that looks like this (most good PC and Adio Visuaul stores sell them)
      [img]http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzOztt3-mjI/AAAAAAAAEhA/S-59zDKmYe0/s800/Photo402.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      some graphics cards come with a adapter plug (usually yellow)

      [img]http://🐸🐸🐸🐸.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzOz-Osi5EI/AAAAAAAAEhI/JWDCRB_YhlY/s800/Photo406.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]



      Your lappy needs an HDMI out port

      [img]http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0JGQPK2I/AAAAAAAAEhU/9gGM2GU5gUk/s800/Photo404.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]


      [img]http://🐸🐸🐸🐸.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0PWPN-pI/AAAAAAAAEhc/PN6hqw9B8js/s800/Photo408.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      your desktop pc should have an HDMI out port on the graphics card (again usually yellow)



      Plug the HDMI cable into the corrosponding ports on the Desktop pc/lappy.

      Next locate the HDMI in port on the TV

      [img]http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0CpRqPkI/AAAAAAAAEhM/dbV7a20j3qQ/s800/Photo407.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      IF you are using the VGA cable the proceedure is the same

      [img]http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0bt8iOFI/AAAAAAAAEhk/3EK-wyGG1vM/s800/Photo412.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]


      [img]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO09YSEWgI/AAAAAAAAEiE/r_EfcmbHLw0/s800/hghggfgfgf.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      Now Turn on the TV and select the the port your pc/laptop is plugged into
      [img]http://🐸🐸🐸🐸.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0VUUphPI/AAAAAAAAEhg/bZWLj6Nhi2Y/s800/Photo409.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      Once selected turn on your pc/laptop and you should see the windows boot up diplay on the tv
      [img]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0htpPAdI/AAAAAAAAEho/BYwAXeZ8NZw/s800/Photo415.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      Your desktop should now be displaying on your TV
      [img]http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0noDFiSI/AAAAAAAAEhs/wgm1M4I-PpU/s800/Photo419.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      Now all you need to do is launch the game

      [img]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0t3iu3oI/AAAAAAAAEh0/v-PcNInZXaE/s800/Photo420.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      [img]http://🐸🐸🐸🐸.ggpht.com/_Y7Khwny6Pxw/SzO0yi9E8jI/AAAAAAAAEh4/NhUQVRtq5p0/s800/Photo421.jpg"height=450 width=600"[/img]

      Note: you may need to change your computers output resolution so the dispaly fills the tv screen

      Full HD ratio is usually 1080 using the HDMI cable

      If you using the standard VGA cable you may just have to play around with the resolution setting

      ALSO>>>>> make sure you pc and graphics card can support this kind of diplay output before attempting it

      The TV Im using is a SONY BRAVIA Full HD 40" Bravia Engine 3
      Post edited by Unknown User on
    • ilovesims56ilovesims56 Posts: 6,331 Member
      edited December 2009
      I have a PS2, can i use the audio and video cable?
    • HaidenHaiden Posts: 3,841 Member
      edited December 2009
      ilovesims56 wrote:
      I have a PS2, can i use the audio and video cable?

      AS far as I know you cant as the ps2 cable cant plug into your computers graphic card.

      If you had a ps3 you could the HDMI cable as it come with it in the box

      Ps2 does not support HDMI as far as I know
    • ilovesims56ilovesims56 Posts: 6,331 Member
      edited December 2009
      Haiden wrote:
      ilovesims56 wrote:
      I have a PS2, can i use the audio and video cable?

      AS far as I know you cant as the ps2 cable cant plug into your computers graphic card.

      If you had a ps3 you could the HDMI cable as it come with it in the box

      Ps2 does not support HDMI as far as I know

      Aw ok. thnx ;):D
    • HaidenHaiden Posts: 3,841 Member
      edited December 2009
      ilovesims56 wrote:
      Haiden wrote:
      ilovesims56 wrote:
      I have a PS2, can i use the audio and video cable?

      AS far as I know you cant as the ps2 cable cant plug into your computers graphic card.

      If you had a ps3 you could the HDMI cable as it come with it in the box

      Ps2 does not support HDMI as far as I know

      Aw ok. thnx ;):D

      No problem :)
    • HaidenHaiden Posts: 3,841 Member
      edited December 2009
      dk4ofjoshuayhyu wrote:
      I'm running my game in a 2-year-old-$3500 Notebook.

      And wow mate, you have

      AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
      4 GB RAM
      nVidia GeForce 9600 GTs

      And I'm using:

      Intel Core 2 Duo T 7500 2190 MHz
      2 GB RAM
      nVidia Quadro FX 570 M

      I can't be more jealous. And I don't even have an HDMI Port!
      The best bet for me is to install Linux and Virtual Computer, then Windows XP, into my PS3!

      By the way, how much did you spend on this machine?

      Lol..thats my desktops specs...here are the laptops specs...... the lappy is virtually the same as the desktop except it has a core duo 2.4Ghz processor and only has 512mb dedicated ram on is graphics card
      System Information
      Machine name: HAIDEN-PC
      Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
      Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
      System Manufacturer: Packard Bell BV
      System Model: EasyNote SB87
      BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
      Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
      Memory: 4096MB RAM
      Available OS Memory: 4086MB RAM
      Page File: 1515MB used, 6655MB available
      Windows Dir: C:\Windows
      DirectX Version: DirectX 11
      DX Setup Parameters: Not found
      User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
      System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
      DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
      DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode
      DxDiag Notes
      Display Tab 1: No problems found.
      Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
      Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
      Input Tab: No problems found.
      DirectX Debug Levels
      Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
      DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
      DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
      DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
      DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
      DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
      DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
      Display Devices
      Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
      Manufacturer: NVIDIA
      Chip type: GeForce 9600M GT
      DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
      Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_C20E1631&REV_A1
      Display Memory: 2285 MB
      Dedicated Memory: 497 MB
      Shared Memory: 1787 MB
      Current Mode: 1440 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)
      Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
      Monitor Model: unknown
      Monitor Id: AUO6287
      Native Mode: 1440 x 900(p) (59.996Hz)
      Output Type: Internal
      Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
      Driver File Version: 8.16.0011.8681 (English)
      Driver Version: 8.16.11.8681
      DDI Version: 10
      Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
      Driver Date/Size: 8/19/2009 13:35:00, 9544192 bytes
      WHQL Logo'd: n/a
      WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
      Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4747-11CF-6854-05E21EC2C535}
      Vendor ID: 0x10DE
      Device ID: 0x0407
      SubSys ID: 0xC20E1631
      Revision ID: 0x00A1
      Driver Strong Name: oem25.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1:Section002:8.16.11.8681:pci\ven_10de&dev_0407&subsys_c20e1631
      Rank Of Driver: 00E60001
      Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C ModeVC1_C ModeWMV9_C

      Disk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives
      Drive: C:
      Free Space: 254.8 GB
      Total Space: 293.0 GB
      File System: NTFS
      Model: WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0

      Drive: D:
      Free Space: 268.9 GB
      Total Space: 305.2 GB
      File System: NTFS
      Model: WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0

      Drive: F:
      Model: ZTE USB SCSI CD-ROM USB Device
      Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 6.01.7600.16385 (English), , 0 bytes

      Drive: E:
      Model: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7590A ATA Device
      Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 6.01.7600.16385 (English), , 0 bytes
    • Omri147Omri147 Posts: 11,162 Member
      edited December 2009
      wow, that looks awesome!
      The Sims 3 premade family recreations for The Sims 4: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/883881/the-sims-3-premade-sims-recreation-for-the-sims-4
    • cccccccccccc Posts: 707 New Member
      edited February 2010
      If I buy a 52" TV, place it in my bedroom (I only have like 48" or summet atm)

      Would I be able to play it PERMANENTLY?

      Or can you only play it for a short period of time?
    • CoyadreCoyadre Posts: 5,409 Member
      edited February 2010
      Haiden wrote:


      You can buy them from most good pc/audio video stores...but you graphics card need to be full HD as well otherwise its pointless

      How do you know if your graphics card is full HD?
    • roflmaoxsarahroflmaoxsarah Posts: 4,132 Member
      edited February 2010
      I played on my television once. I would play sims on my television too but I am too lazy to install it on my laptop. xD
    • cccccccccccc Posts: 707 New Member
      edited February 2010
      Ive seen my friend playing it on a 50", it was full HD and it was breath-taking, litrelly, at one point in the game I went to actually make the bed with my own hand... (TRUE)

      Thats how realitsic it was.
    • hazel6791hazel6791 Posts: 283 New Member
      edited February 2010
      Apparently my lappy has a HDMI thing dont know what it looks like though lol!! May see if my bf will hook my lappy up to his hd tv hmmmm .... ;)
    • wickedchris247wickedchris247 Posts: 604
      edited July 2012
      i don't think my 22 inch monitor has a hdmi slot but it is full HD 1080p and the graphics card can supply hd, so would i be able to buy a cable HD to Dvi cable and connect it to my monitor for HD gameplay or will it make no difference?
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