nooooooooooooooooo.I have to dream about it.

lol i have all requirements 2!!

TO Tyler
That is NOT any GHZ
ghz is Giga Hertz which is More than mgz
which is Mega Hertz. You have just under 1GHZ

No way! Pentium 4 or equivalent is at the gates of death. I do not think that only a single core has capacity for this game.

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My laptop meets all the requirements however I am unsure about my video card, I currently have a ATI Radeon 9000??

wait I have a radeon 9200 graphics card I`m sure I meet all the other requirements but I know barely anything about graphics card`s so will it be enough

NO!!!!! My computer cant play it im so up set

ok i was just wondering if my grapic card will support sims 3 i have ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO, and i had trouble with it with sims 2, like major grapic glitches and i got spore and i know spore has somewhat the same grapic requrments as sims3 but i was still wondering if my grapic card will support it without having problems bc its an HD grapic card and i know sims 2 didnt work well with HDs and thanks

Will a t8300 dual core @ 2.40gHz with 8600mgt geforce run it
3gb ram

Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD

is that any good?

will my intel core 2 quad cpu q8200 2.33ghz be ok.

I'm happy!
I just bought a laptop (hoping I had the right graphics card)
and the requirement is intel X3000 or above, and I have X3100

i've got a recently purchased laptop with 4gb and i'm guessing a relatively high powered dual core for £500 worth of laptop, only thing is it has an intergrated graphics card will i be able to play the new sims without problems?

is sims 3 for ps3??

@ Hanru
I'm sorry but it's not 6 months, at most it is a few days - Spore was released 4 days before the US. So sims 3 will most probably be was well - although I can not confirm this fact.

Will the Sims 3 be released on 20 February 2009 in South Africa? Because it always takes longer. It's not fair if the world plays it 6 months before South Africa does.

I see nothing here about an internet connection for activation, does this mean I can play the game without the internet?

Kels, your laptop will run it fine as long as ATi have sorted out their driver bug with regards to sims, (sims 2 appears distorted from time to time on most ATi cards).

To be honest, if anyone has a dual core above pentium D and any decent dedicated card from the last 4 years, they will be able to run sims 3 nicely, the sims has never been that demanding, and since this game is supporting integrated chipsets,it won't be that taxing.

So, if you can run the sims 2 at maximum settings nicely (40 FPS+) i would imagine you'll have absolutely no problem with the sims 3.

Btw, if anyone is worried and is planning on buying a new laptop for the sims 3, i would recommend an acer 6920G (£550 from PC world atm), it'll probably even play the inevitable sims 4

i dont like sims on pc so i play sims 2 on Xbox or Ps2. but its nice that you made sims 3 it looks awsom but its onaly for pc maby you should build sims 3 on other systems so that every body can play it that would be nice
Love: Number 1# Fan
Ps; im still a bit mad about that

okayy, so i have a laptop. its an ASUS F3Sseries, it has 250gb of hard drive, 2gb of memory, a cpu of duo T7300, a windows vista operating system and a ATI Raedeon HD 2400 graphics card, now will the sims 3 work on my laptop?

i recently bought the sims 2 double deluxe and it won't work on this laptop for some reason :S.

Will it work if the sims 2 works?

Will mine work?

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so, i have a laptop and it runs the sims 2 but its just a little slow.

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http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=17&name=Memory

CPU speeds listed are for single core processors.Any dual core or better will do. That Radeon 3650 is far above the minimum, ati started the number series over after the 9800 series and put an x in front ,then HD. Same with nvidea.

Sims three like 2 can be run on a very primitive computer with one exception, RAM. Memory modules are dirt cheap right now, max out your system. Windows XP (32 bit) will recognise up to 3 gig of ram, minus the video card ram. Vista and 64 bit XP will recognise all the ram your motherboard will support.

Not sure what kind or how much memory you can use?

Go to this page and use the memory configurator on the left side of the page. (new egg)

Sorry to Double Post, but my only concern would be my graphics card: ATI Raedon X1300 - 256MB

Is this a sufficient graphics card or am I going to have to do the same as I did with the Sims 2 and buy a new PC.
Because I cant upgrade my Dell Dimencion C521, its almost impossible, as the case is to small for a new card, or power supply for that matter.

My computer has 991 mhz. How much Ghz is that? Quote:Tyler

As you get MegaBytes and GigaBytes.
Same thing for Mhz & Ghz.
Mega Hertz means it is only 0.9GHZ which is enough. You'll need a processor upgrade. If your not sure how to do it, just buy a new PC.

I was wondering if i have to upgrade my video card even if it already is capable of 128 MB, I have a 2 year old laptop and its hard to upgrade, considering just saving money for a new PC. Please Help.

Hi guys,

Just a reminder, please remember that these are MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS - the recommended requirements have not yet been released.

Please refrain from posting every single specs, what I mean by this is please don't specify "I have a Genius Mouse with 3D side tracking" this information is irrelevant and causes the other comments to drop.

Also my apologies, when I copied over the E-Mail and was cleaning up the styling I accidentally copied the XP Laptop over as a 2.4 instead of 2.0 - Thanks to L.S for pointing this out

@ Filipe
MAC will only be released about 4 - 6 months after PC, their requirements will then be released when this is done. (That is if they don't do a double release like Spore - but this is unlikely)

STOP reading the gigahertz... p4 and athlon xp 2000 are eight year old processors.

This is a garage sale list of requirements, Sims 2 will barely run on these systems. Unless they learned some serious tricks with the stories series.

When the recommended list pops it's going to have quad core written all over.

I think I may be ok with my specs:

Processor:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory:
4Gigs G.Skill DDR2 800 2x2gig
Hard Drive:
300 GB 1.5 g/s transfer sata
Video Card:
NVIDIA GTX260 + NVIDIA GeForce 7950GT +Physx
Laptop:

2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 Gigs of RAM
Radeon 3650, 1 gig dedicated, 2 gigs with vista
500 gigs, 2x 250 gig harddrives

cant wait!

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and for mac??

My computer has 991 mhz. How much Ghz is that?

I just thought i would tell everyone that on the sims 2 website: http://www.thesims2.co.uk/news.read.asp?id=1078 , which is the official website, there is a 2 GHz processor requirement for laptops running Xp, not 2.4 GHz.

I was also wondering if 1.99 GHz counts a 2 GHz please respond ASAP, my email is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Looks like I'll need to get a new computer or Laptop, mines about 6 years old anyway so it would never be able to run this.

So does this mean on a laptop, if the recommended is around double like somebody here estimated, that it will need 4GB on a Laptop!?

Thank you for providing us with such valuable information! In my point of view, the recommended requirements would be 2GB RAM,Dual Core proccessor and 256MB Graphics card! Hope I regulated right!

thank you

2.4 GHz?? I thought 2.4 is like on really top of the range computers, mines vista but its only 1.9 ... and i thought they were tryin to make it so that it would still run on older computers?

I was reading the specs of sims 3 and was waundering if my laptop's graphic card could take it. It's a 256MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 3650. I was waundering if the number after RADEON had to be 9600 or more, or wether it's the 256MB that really matters or do you have to have both. Please reply!!!!

Requirements have now also been posted on:
TheSims2.co.uk
TheSims2.com BBS

@ Elizabeth
Doubling a processor in this case would mean going for a newer one - an example is, you can't compare a P4 to a Core 2 Duo, since 2GHz for a C2 Duo is a lot higher than for a P4
...If that makes sense ?..?..?...

Sorry for sounding dense, but does doubling the specs include the processor? The fastest I've seen on various computers is around 3.16GHz, which is less than double for both XP (2.0GHz) and Vista (2.4GHz).

@ HystericalParoxysm
Nice explanation

@ Jack
Yes, I am already aware of this, Italy was supposed to be the next site, but they so behind time they will probably be the last. And just to confirm this new look is for The Sims 3 sites, when their domains are launched that is.

Very important to remember that these are MINIMUM requirements - that is, the absolute bare minimum you need to get the game to run. That doesn't mean it will be playable, or will work well with these specs!

Until we actually get recommended requirements or the game is out to test what decent requirements are, it would be safe to assume roughly -double- these requirements is the level it needs to be playable - that's how it has been with Sims 2 and I don't see them changing it.

Hey, looks like all of The Sims official sites are adopting the new look from www.sims.dk.

Take a look at this: http://beta.thesims2.br.ea.com/

This is so helpful. :] Thank you!

Thanks