@igazor Thanks so much for your speedy reply! I'm on Mojave at the moment on a 6yr old Macbook Pro but I'm battling all the typical bug bears (no disc errors, ridiculous lagging, the lowest graphic settings, poor laptop sounding like it's about to take off, etc). It's certainly not equipped for games but it's all I've had for a very long while.
After making my way through The Sims franchise over the years I'd love to finally experience smooth and seamless gameplay with both TS4 and TS3 (well, as much as we can, anyhow!). I had TS3 sussed a number of years ago on my Mac after about a week of patching, troubleshooting and generally wanting to pull my hair out, and even now I regret removing it all for TS4 to this very day! That said, it wasn't the experience I had hoped for.
Oh for sure, the specs are waaaay above and beyond, but to be honest, I'd also like to see it as an investment for the future series (hoping TS5 will be the TS3 re-vamp we're all dreaming of!). Planet Coaster is something else I'm interested in playing and is apparently a total monster when it comes to hardware demands. I do like TS4, and again, I'd love to play it all seamlessly with all packs and pretty much a free reign on mods. The temperamental TS3 does have a special place in my heart though!
Alternatively, if we're thinking of achieving a smooth TS4 experience (on max graphics) and softening the blow to my wallet, would something like the below suffice?
-Intel® Core™ i5-10400F Processor (2.9 GHz / 4.3 GHz)
- RAM: 8 GB DDR4 (2400 MHz)
- Graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650)
- Storage: 1 TB HDD (7200 rpm), 256 GB SSD
Two questions really: Would there be a vast difference in TS4/3 performance between an i5 and an i7 processor? And if I'm wanting to install mods, CC and all expansions for both games, I'm assuming I'd need more than 256GB SSD? I can't remember where I read it, but I've seen that the series tends to work best when installed on SSD rather than HHD.
Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it! :)
