Laptop Requirements for Sims 3 Expansions
Hello, I used to have Sims 3 with expansions on my laptop and I vaguely remember it crashing or lagging back in 2013/2014. I am going to replace the hard drive as it crashed sometime between then a...
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@puzzlezaddict I have a couple more questions.
What is the difference between a nvidia Quadro M1000M MXM and the nvidia 1050 or 960? Does it even compare?
Would I be able to play with an external USB CD ROM drive? I'm seeing that some laptops are not made with CD ROMs and the Sims 3 games that I have/will have are CDs.
What is the difference between a nvidia Quadro M1000M MXM and the nvidia 1050 or 960? Does it even compare?
Would I be able to play with an external USB CD ROM drive? I'm seeing that some laptops are not made with CD ROMs and the Sims 3 games that I have/will have are CDs.
@jenn_sims1 I know a little about Sims 2, not much. There will definitely be fixes you need to apply to get the game running properly no matter which computer you end up buying. Luckily, the minimum requirements for that game are quite low, so any laptop you're considering for Sims 3 should be more than fine for TS2.
Nvidia's Quadro series is a set of graphics cards for professional work. The cards are not built for gaming, although they can certainly run many games well enough. The real issue is that their drivers are not optimized for gaming. What this means for practical purposes depends on the game; I'm not sure how these cards run Sims 3, or whether there's a distinction among them that matters, aside of course from the overall capabilities of a particular card.
The M1000M in particular is a much slower card than an Nvidia 1050, but much faster than a 940MX. The gap in benchmarks is quite large in both cases. But again, I've never heard how Quadro cards in general handle Sims 3, much less this particular card.
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