Windows 7, 8 or 8.1?
I'm having a pc built (actually they started yesterday). Here's its specs; Gigabyte Ultra Durable GA H97M Motherbd 1 TB Black Sata 3.5" HD 32 GB Corsair or Kingston HyperX (4X8GB) DDR3 ram Intel...
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I have windows 8 (not 8.1) , I7, 3gb Nvidia 770m , 16gb ram - no issues. When I installed I shut everything down, no security and downloaded everything through Firefox. My game runs fine.
Windows 8/8.1 has securtiy that might conflict with the game. Dont download anything on Internet Explorer for this game it has its own securtity that conflics with the game.
This game is funny. It likes some computers and not others. We had two people in here about a month ago who had Nvidia 780M both on windows 8.1 and the game was giving them a hard time and I dont know if they ever got it working. We had another person who had windows 7 and the Nvidia 760 card and that person was having some game play issues too.
I cant tell you how your computer will run the game until you test it out. Since your getting a computer this is desktop ??? If it's desktop get windows 8 and you can always switch to 8.1 later should you want to. One thing with windows 8 if switching to 8.1 there is no resore point so if you go from 8 to 8.1 in the future make sure you back up your computer before you do the switch.
I am emailing the place now and I will call when they open and update on what theyve said. If it isnt possible i'll just have to see what happens but it would really disappoint me if i get it and still cannot play
I really do understand and feel you on the whole game issue. I have spent a lot of money on this game . Like you in the beginning my old computer could not play past fast lane and I did not play this game for about 3 years. I like you waited until I needed a new computer. I have seen this game be able to run on some computers that have below minimum requirements and some who far exceed the requirements and have issues. I have no idea how EA prgramed this game and why it acts the way it does.
If you have the chance to choose 8 or 8.1 I would choose 8 because it would be easier for you to go from 8 to 8.1 rather than have 8.1 and if you dont like 8.1 uninstall it to go to 8.
I do know that the sims 4 is being made on the newer OS so this would be 8/8.1 and I see posts where EA claims the specs for sims 4 will not be as high as the sims 3 but the confirmed specs are not out on sims 4 yet.
- Unfornately they already installed Windows 8.1 So id i unfornatly cannot play The Sims 3 (i hope so). Then I should definately be able to play The Sims 4. Its just i looked up about how recent if any of these problems still existed. Hopefully The Sims 4 everyone should be able to play and it won't be little to no bugs.
I can tell you we are all hoping there are no bugs in the sims 4 and crossing fingers your game runs on 8.1. Since you havent played in a while we now have origin my advice is that you play on download versions rather than disc. You get free download verisons when you register your disc. I use all downloads, made sure I had no securiy on when I downloaded so nothing would interfear with my game installation. I used firefox and had no issue downloading at all. We now only patch the base game, and you just add eps after you patch the game and EP's on download do not have to be downloaded in any order.
- I was a bit disappointed when i heard about the no disc thing. I'm the type to like to have a copy on hand lol. I havent played since The Sim 2. So I've been out of this game for some time and kind of just in time for 4. As of probably next month ppl will probably stop creating things for The Sims 3. 4 does look good but there's some things I've read that (hasnt been offically confirmed I'd say rumors) that I probably wouldn't like but atleast I will be joining everyone this time around I hope. LOL
