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Mr Z
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Hi all.

Anyhone know if The Sims 2 works on Windows Vista? Because someone I know, and who loves that game, is going to get, or at last planning to get, an laptop. And since The Sims 2 was out before vista, it might be good to know that before purchasing an machine. Anyone knows?

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Posted: 29th Dec 2007 16:05
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Yes.

http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=281


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Mr Z
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Good .

Anyway, the machine she was looking at have about 1 gb ram. I said vista would perform well on it (I do not have vista, but I have read a lot about it), just as she had at last that much. Will vista (home basic) perform well under 1 gb ram?

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Should do, home basic isn't as resource intensive as the others. However,do you know what graphics card and processor the computer has, because even if it has 1gb of RAM if it has a rubbish processor it has no chance.

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Posted: 29th Dec 2007 21:03 Edited at: 29th Dec 2007 21:15
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It is not a super processor, but I do not consider it super bad either.

Processor:
Intel Celeron M540-processor, 1,83GHz

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1 Gb

Graphics card:
Do not say

EDIT:

Ok, after I googled a bit I found out was kind of graphics card the laptop has.

Graphics card:
GMA X3100


Do you think it will be able to run The Sims 2?

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You don't know what graphics card you have or you don't want to tell people?

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Ye, that processor is about as low end as they come for Celerons, but that's fine, most games won't need a high end or even midrange processor. What you do need is a fairly decent graphics card.

If you don't know what graphics card you have, go to start > (in vista use the search box, or in xp click "run) > type "dxdiag" without quotes > go to the "Display" tab.


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Posted: 29th Dec 2007 21:22 Edited at: 29th Dec 2007 21:23
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I do not have it, I have just looked at it at the webbsite. She found it, and I, who know a bit more about computers then she, look at it. But since I do not know very much about vista, I asked here.

Anyway, the graphics card was an GMA X3100.

Quote: "Ye, that processor is about as low end as they come for Celerons, but that's fine, most games won't need a high end or even midrange processor.
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Ok, that is good. Then the game will propobly work. The game has an minimum requirement at 800 MHz (according to wikipedia), so it should work.

Quote: "You don't know what graphics card you have or you don't want to tell people?"


I didn´t know. It did not stand at the webbsite. I googled the model, and found out it was an GMA X3100.

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Quote: "You don't know what graphics card you have or you don't want to tell people?"

Read the first post in the thread again .

Yeah, Sims 2 will run fine on that system, I think the X3100 is either a 128 or 256 chipset, but integrated so its shared either way. But Sims 2 runs fine on my girlfriend's computer with far worse integrated video, so I'm sure your friend will be fine.

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Well, games don't generally support laptop cards, so it'd be a toss up until you try it out. I doubt you'll have any problems running the sims on a laptop though

Now playing Crysis? That may be a different story


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Ok, then I draw the conclusion that laptop should be able to run The Sims 2 without any problems.

Quote: "Now playing Crysis? That may be a different story"


Problems with Crysis? That game is ugly and old as hell, and ablut every computer can run it as long as they have at last 200 MHz and 16 mb ram!

Nah, just kidding.

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download syste requirements lab on your laptop, and it will test your machines comptability

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