EA have released the official minimum requirements for running The Sims 3.
As per usual, they dredge the lowest of low, but it’s good too see some attempt has been made to require a computer manufactured this side of the great computing big-bang of the year of our lord (Horace the Endless Bear) 1876.
Skip the jump to see whether that sun-bleached beige laptop your grandparents dug out of the attic for a Christmas present will cope…
Desktop
Laptop
XP w/ service pack 2
Vista w/ service pack 1
XP w/ service pack 2
Vista w/ service pack 1
CPU
Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+ Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+ Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ RAM
1 GB 1.5 GB 1.5 GB 2.0 GB Graphics
GeForce FX 5900 / Radeon 9500 GeForce FX 5900 / Radeon 9500 GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600 GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600 Video RAM
128 MB 128 MB 128 MB 128 MB
Sorry Strong Bad… seems Lappy is finally, officially and irrefutably obsolete!
As for the rest of you laptop-owning Sims-loving females out there, you should be fine with anything bought in the last 2 years (although Intel mobile chips are conspicuously absent, it’s safe to say the X3100 series or better should tide you over)!
