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I got a new laptop just for the Sims 3! cant wait for it to come out now.

Haha, congratulations, good for you. XD Your excitement is mutual.

Congrats! Just don't rub it in for the others hehe {blush}

Well i saw on a interview that ben bell was doing that the sims 3 is really stretching the boundries of how new a computer has to be to run thier games in other words the sims 3 i think can evan be run on windows 97 i think?

My computer got like a little more than 2 times the minimum

I have a fairly new computer, but it just broke. So I have to fix it, even though the game comes out in 2 weeks. My laptop actually passed on everything except CPU speed, and it's about 1.50 and I need 2, so not too horrid. I failed epically for Spore, and yet ran it pretty well. As long as I expect slow I can handle it. I'll probably just go through and clean up my laptop a bit, and once I can afford to have my computer fixed do that and just send over my saved games.

One day? Alienware. Oh yes.
[I can dream.]

IM A FAILUREEEEEE

Its so stupid im going to buy the sims 3 and if it dosent work w.e ill force my mom to buy the stuff i need


Minimum: (XP) 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent; (Vista) 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent [If built-in graphics chipsets then 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent].
You Have: Intel® Celeron® CPU 2.53GHz

Minimum: (XP) 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent; (Vista) 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent [If built-in graphics chipsets then 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent].
You Have: 2.53 GHz

System RAM
Minimum: (XP) 1 GB RAM; (Vista) 1.5 GB RAM [If built-in graphics then add 0.5 GB additional RAM]
You Have: 510 MB
PASS

Minimum: Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
You Have: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (Build Service Pack 22600)
PASS

Minimum: 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 or above / ATI Radeon 9500 or above / Intel GMA 3-series or above)
You Have: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller (Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller)


Video RAM: Required - 128 MB , You have - 96 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 0.0

Minimum: 6.1 GB
You Have: 32.5 GB

My iMac is good to go.

Passed everything!
And I thought my laptop wouldn't run it O_o;

Umm, I don't know what to make of this:

Video Card
Minimum: 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 or above / ATI Radeon 9500 or above / Intel GMA 3-series or above)
You Have: Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset Family (Intel® Calistoga Graphics Controller)  FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this minimum requirement. 
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card  Video RAM: Required - 128 MB , You have - 224 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 2.0


This is the only one that failed but it says I made the min. req?