Will This Computer Play The Sims 3?

@540jmh12 - You may be able to run the TS3 base game (only, no EPs) on the lowest of graphics settings in Game Options for a while, but it won't be expected to run well and the game will tend to overwhelm laptops in that series. Not enough RAM, no dedicated graphics card, insufficient cooling. If you force such a laptop to run too hard, it can very well overheat on you and become permanently damaged. Price is not a good determining factor, but for the sake of comparison laptops that can run TS3 with all EPs start at $900 USD and go up from there. For base game and the early EPs we can cut some corners but the Ideapad is several classes below that and not designed for graphics intensive games.

TS3 runs on DX9. All installations of Win 10 have DX12, but the system is supposed to be backwards compatible.