@phoebebebe13 I'd love to keep my laptop and get a gaming desktop but I just don't have the money. I just love being able to stay up all night in bed playing sims on a light laptop so having a desktop would be annoying as I wouldn't get as much usage from it or I would but then it would limit my ability to do much else while playing (like watching tv or talking to someone I'm with) I like to multitask..
I'll have to stick to sims 2 then until further notice - hopefully that satisfies my Sims cravings I'm having...
It's such a pain because on the surface it appeared to be suited - i7 processor, enough ghz , dedicated graphics card, SSD with enough space to install all 3 sims games and their expansion packs and still have enough space left over if I ever want to install more EP (which I won't unless they suddenly decide to give TS4 some EP worth having..)
Such a shame everywhere I looked online had info that wasn't correct. I should have just spent more time searching for how to be able to post on these forums rather than giving up in frustration :( I knew I'd get all the info I needed from here that's why I got so annoyed I couldn't post.
I have another laptop I used to use for TS4 and TS3 . It ran a lot better than the Celeron laptop but after a few years more than 1hr of play on TS4 would cause the game to lag so badly I had to exit the game for a while or it would just crash randomly, but the laptop didn't really heat up too much.
support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c03734159I'm still not great at understanding what will be ok and what won't.... can I use that to play TS3/TS4?
sorry I'm being such a pain.