Can it run Sims 3?

[Kukakkau]

Planning on getting my sister the Sims 3 for her Christmas but I'm unsure if her laptop will be able to handle it.

It's a Dell Inspiron 1525 with
OS: Windows XP
CPU: 1.6GHz
RAM: 1GB
Video Card: 256MB RAM

Would appreciate it if anyone could give feedback on this and opinions on whether or not it will work before I buy it? It doesn't have to run on high video settings just needs to atually run without exploding.

 

[benoitowns]

yea, it should be able to run it. The video card should be fine, not amazing, but will probably take some of the load of of the RAM. XP manages to use small amounts of ram well so it will run like a normal vista computer.

 

[Jovlo]

When you google 'can you run it?' first thing you see is a website that checks your computer whether or not it can handle the game of your choice. It comes in pretty handy.

 

[dekkarax]

It won't processor's to slow, even to reach XP requirements.
it needs 2.0GHz

 

[Kukakkau]

When you google 'can you run it?' first thing you see is a website that checks your computer whether or not it can handle the game of your choice. It comes in pretty handy.

Yes I tried that but the results were not coming up properly for some areas. But thanks anyway

yea, it should be able to run it. The video card should be fine, not amazing, but will probably take some of the load of of the RAM. XP manages to use small amounts of ram well so it will run like a normal vista computer.

Yea I spent all day sneaking XP on her laptop while shes out for that reason haha. Allright thanks man much appreciated

 

[Kukakkau]

It won't processor's to slow, even to reach XP requirements.
it needs 2.0GHz

That was my main area of concern. Do you think the difference will be big enough to stop it running even at low video settings?

 

[DazZ.]

It won't processor's to slow, even to reach XP requirements.
it needs 2.0GHz

That was my main area of concern. Do you think the difference will be big enough to stop it running even at low video settings?

Yes. If you don't reach the minimum it will be epicly unplayable, if you are just above minimum it still is usually still unplayable.

 

[dekkarax]

It won't processor's to slow, even to reach XP requirements.
it needs 2.0GHz

That was my main area of concern. Do you think the difference will be big enough to stop it running even at low video settings?

It probably won't.
My old comp wouldn't run a game that had min. requirements 30MHz (0.03GHz) more that it's processor could provide.
You can try it, but I'd recommend you have a backup plan.

 

[Spaghetti]

Try this website:
http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/

Its a quick and strait-forward way of determining whether most game will work or not and I think Sims 3 is on there.

But judging by the listed system, I'm gonna say no. But the website will give a more accurate assesment than I ever will.
EDIT: Just in case you do want to try that website, it doesn't appear to work on Firefox but it does on IE...

 

[Jenova65]

Try this website:
http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/

Its a quick and strait-forward way of determining whether most game will work or not and I think Sims 3 is on there.

But judging by the listed system, I'm gonna say no. But the website will give a more accurate assesment than I ever will

That site is OK but sometimes tells you that you can't run something that you can, just so you are aware of it

 

[Kukakkau]

Okay found out Can You Run it? was not working properly since it needed to update. Results were fail in CPU and fail in RAM (even though that requirement is met). It also claims that laptop can run Empire Total War at the fastest speed, so yeah I'm not gonna trust it much

It won't processor's to slow, even to reach XP requirements.
it needs 2.0GHz

That was my main area of concern. Do you think the difference will be big enough to stop it running even at low video settings?

Yes. If you don't reach the minimum it will be epicly unplayable, if you are just above minimum it still is usually still unplayable.

I was thinking that but Empire Total War runs pretty well on this computer and I'm also 0.4GHz under the minimum. Only experience some slowness but that's it at medium video settings.

 

[Daveman]

don't bother, it'll be horrible, yes it'll technically run but it'll lag, my laptop can play COD4 but it gets probably worse than 10fps. and my laptop is better than that one by far.