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Tips for buying laptop Sims 3 CAW

Hi,

Hope my English is understandable.
I bought this laptop: MSI Katana; AMD Ryzen 7 processor RAM: 16 GB 1000 GB opslag, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, and i could not save my world in CAW with this laptop. 
Using this laptop, Sims 3 didnt regocnize NVIDIA card, and when i adjusted the graphic files, it did (DeviceConfig said [Found: 1, Matched: 1]) but its performance became much worse. And CAW fell out, several times, every time, and i returned the laptop to the shop. 
I don't understand why it didn't perform any better.
Now I starting to doubt if even a laptop exists for Sims 3, CAW and loads of CC. My old laptop, Acer from 2015, could do it though, but that one has other problems now.
I don't really understand what to look for, and every post i found over this topic is too old, those laptops are not for sale anymore.

If you can help me i will be very grateful.
Karin.

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    2 months ago

    MXH0920593  Sorry for the late reply; I've been away from the forums for a while.

    Edit In-game has always been difficult, on any computer and since before the EA App was around.  It's worse now, at least some of the time, but these problems aren't new.  I don't think a better computer would address the fundamental EIG issues, but it should let you play on ultra settings at least, so you can fine-tune some details more easily.

    As for OneDrive, the quickest way to get rid of it is to make a new, local admin Windows account and use that.  So you create a dummy account where you sign in, and get OneDrive and all its problems, and then you make your real account and delete the dummy account.  A "local" account means not tied to an email address and therefore not tied to a Microsoft account.  You can create one if you keep declining to enter an email—click "I don't have this person's information" and similar until you stop getting prompts.

    There is also a fairly straightforward way to remove OneDrive from an existing account, but simply unlinking or uninstalling doesn't do it.  I covered the various options here:

    [Read First] Running Sims 3 in Windows | EA Forums - 8323446

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    2 months ago

    MXH0920593  I've never seen any evidence that CAW runs worse than Sims 3 itself.  So I can't tell you what to look for either, beyond something that can run the game properly.  Your Katana should have been able to do both, and if you still had it, I'd suggest focusing on how the game itself ran first, then going back to the CAW issue.  It's also possible that this was entirely about user settings, for example whether OneDrive was running or how much custom content you were using.

    If you want advice from people currently using CAW, or a sense of what kinds of computers they have, I'd suggest posting the question in the Creative Corner forum:

    The Sims 3 Creative Corner | EA Forums

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    MXH0920593
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    2 months ago

    Thank you. I did get a recommendation from EA help, this is the info:

    NVIDIA
    NVidia GeForce Gtx 1060: De meest populaire modern is de NVidia GeForce Gtx 1650 Super.

    NVidia GeForce Gtx 1650 Super: De NVidia GeForce RTX 3060 is een meer actieve en modern-optie.

    AMD
    AMD Radeon RX 580: De AMD Radeon RX 6600 is een goede modern equivalent.

    AMD Radeon RX 570: De AMD Radeon RX 6500 xt is een geschikte vervanging.

    Bijgewerkte systeemrichtlijnen
    Besturingssysteem: Windows 10 (64-bits) of Windows 11

    Verwerker: Intel Core i5-10400 of AMD Ryzen 5 3600

    Geheugen: 8 GB ram

    Afbeeldingen: NVidia GeForce Gtx 1650 Super of AMD Radeon RX 6600

    Directx: versie 12

    Opslag: 7 GB beschikbare ruimte

     

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    MXH0920593
    New Novice
    2 months ago

    Caw works fine, but when ' edit in game' it becomes difficult or impossible to save. From a certain point i can't make further adjustments. On higher settings it will not save, just falls out. 
    I haven't decided which computer/laptop to buy, so meantime i use Intel Core !7, with intel graphic card. I didn 't think it would work, but it does, on medium settings, and one baby-step at the time. Save, remove all the caches, start again, do one thing, save, etc etc.  
    When my world is saved and exported, then it works fine in the Sims 3. But, on lower settings, i always feel like the quality of the final exported world is less, don't know if that is even possible. Anyway, on lower settings, i see less details, so it is harder to work out the finishing touches.

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    MXH0920593
    New Novice
    2 months ago

    Puzzlezaddict: And also: i think you are right about OneDrive. I didn't like the katana because i coudn't find a way to use the laptop without signing in my account.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    2 months ago

    MXH0920593  Sorry for the late reply; I've been away from the forums for a while.

    Edit In-game has always been difficult, on any computer and since before the EA App was around.  It's worse now, at least some of the time, but these problems aren't new.  I don't think a better computer would address the fundamental EIG issues, but it should let you play on ultra settings at least, so you can fine-tune some details more easily.

    As for OneDrive, the quickest way to get rid of it is to make a new, local admin Windows account and use that.  So you create a dummy account where you sign in, and get OneDrive and all its problems, and then you make your real account and delete the dummy account.  A "local" account means not tied to an email address and therefore not tied to a Microsoft account.  You can create one if you keep declining to enter an email—click "I don't have this person's information" and similar until you stop getting prompts.

    There is also a fairly straightforward way to remove OneDrive from an existing account, but simply unlinking or uninstalling doesn't do it.  I covered the various options here:

    [Read First] Running Sims 3 in Windows | EA Forums - 8323446

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