Sims 3

[simbady]

Would a ATI 4680 be able to run the Sims3 maxed out?

 

[Kennysevenfold]

what is the spec of your cpu and ram mate.?

Edit: and at what res and operating system.?

 

[simbady]

The Pc will have a AMd 5000+ 2GB of RAM 1440x900

 

[psychas]

3870 should maxes it out at that rez

 

[simbady]

It wont be for me i already have a 3870 its for a friend. That why i wanted to know if a 4680 would cut it.

 

[Kennysevenfold]

should be fine on xp, not so sure about vista

 

[gareth170]

the sims is more cpu based

 

[explicit4u]

+1

It should be able to run it, would be a plus to run it on windows 7 beta but that's only if you want to.

 

[simbady]

+1

It should be able to run it, would be a plus to run it on windows 7 beta but that's only if you want to.

I will give win7 a try

 

[rikesh]

4680?

 

[ro55o]

4680?

4670 maybe? Unless a 4680 has been released un detected

 

[KaneStatton]

The sims3 is out is it ?

 

[simbady]

My bad, I did meen 4670 and no sims 3 isn't out yet.

 

[Blackberries]

The sims3 is out is it ?

Not til February/March.

 

[bru]

The sims3 is out is it ?

Nope its released on the 20th feb.


here are the released minimum requirements

FOR WINDOWS XP
Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
1 GB RAM
At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

FOR WINDOWS VISTA
Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
1.5 GB RAM
At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
0.5 GB additional RAM






NVIDIA GeForce series
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280


ATI Radeon™ series
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870,
4850, 4870
Intel® Extreme Graphics
GMA X3x00 series


Additional Information / Disclamer

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts will not perform adequately.
Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.
Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn't listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.
The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.



as for maxing the game out on a any particular card, who knows, but performance is reportedly set up so that the game will run smoothly on older PC's.

 

[explicit4u]

The sims has always been a GPU friendly card as the graphics are not intense and the game is mainly about CPU.