How do i find the requirements for the sims 3 on my Toshiba laptop?
I just bought the Sims 3 and im hearing it doesn't work for all laptop. I dont know where to go to see my requirements on my Toshiba Laptop so can you help me please. What are the steps? and i know mine is Toshiba Satellite but i dont know the letters and numbers to it... Please do it step - by - step
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The game requirements are in the game booklet, printed on the bottom of the box, and on the official site here: http://www.thesims3.com/game/systemreq Please note that all but the high-end gaming laptops with dedicated VRAM are using "built-in graphics chipsets", and you must meet the requirements for those. If you have Windows 7, treat it like Windows Vista for the requirements. To find out what is in your Toshiba, then run 'dxdiag' from the Start menu. In Windows 7/Vista just type dxdiag in the "search programs and files' box and hit enter. In Windows XP, click Run... from the Start menu and type dxdiag there and hit enter. The information you need is on the General and Display tabs. You can also save the information to a file to keep for reference, or if you need to upload it anywhere. The important parts you need look like this (at least on my machine). I have deleted a bunch of other stuff not directly related to the game requirements: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 1/17/2010, 11:31:52 Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz Memory: 4096MB RAM Available OS Memory: 4094MB RAM Page File: 1531MB used, 10752MB available DirectX Version: DirectX 11 --------------- Display Devices --------------- Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Chip type: GeForce GTX 275 Display Memory: 2670 MB Dedicated Memory: 879 MB Shared Memory: 1791 MB Driver File Version: 8.16.0011.9062 (English) Driver Date/Size: 8/17/2009 00:57:00, 9380352 bytes YOUR machine will have different information. If your system does not exactly meet or exceed the requirements, I won't say that it will not run, but you might have problems with slowness, crashing and lockups. My video card you can see is not listed as supported (the ones immediately made before and after it are), yet I have no problems. If your system is too old, the game may not run at all.
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Well you can go to http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/ Select The Sims 3 from the drop down menu (or type it in) and click "Can You Run it?" It will tell you your specs, the requirements for sims 3, and if you meet them! In order to play it well, you need to exceed the minimum requirements. If you just meet them, you will only be able to play Sims 3 on low settings and it won't look good and there will be lag.
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The modle of your computer has nothing to do with the way a game will run on it, you could be running on alein ware and still run Sims 3, it matters if you have the right requirments of hard ware and OS, on the back of the Sims 3 box it says what you need, hit start on your computer, run, type in DxDiag then hit enter, compaire everything, or put the disk in the disk drive and see if it works.
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