What laptop do you play on?

Hi @Brd709. These threads may be helpful.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17944294#Comment_17944294

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/987910/laptop-or-desktop/p1

I'd go look up what my laptop is, but it barely runs Sims 4 on the lowest settings so I don't think it would be much help.

Unless you absolutely need a laptop, do yourself a favor and buy a desktop instead. More power for less money, at the sake of not being portable of course.

I really don't have the space for a desktop system, so I play on a laptop.

I have the Lenovo Legion; bought it in January when my old ASUS ROG bit the dust. Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz (12 CPUs), ~2.6GHz, 24GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 1660 Ti graphics card, 17in monitor (decided I wanted the bigger real estate). Runs the game like a dream; I was having some issues with crashing after the Cottage Living patch, but the folks at AHQ helped me with updating my graphics drivers (had some old ones in there) and haven't had a problem since.

I have 2 Alienware laptops, one that is 12 years old and still works great, and a brand new Alienware laptop that I just got a month ago.
Love them both.

I use an HP Omen:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-omen-15-6-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660-ti-1tb-ssd-mica-silver/6407752.p?skuId=6407752

So, I do have a gaming laptop now, but you don't have to have one in my opinion. I didn't prior and it worked just fine, but I haven't had simulation lag since I upgraded in January. Sims 4 is a fair size, but it is still seven years old. Ultra settings means you just need the parts to handle that, gaming or non gaming whatever labels matters less.

I used to play on a Best Buy bought Asus laptop that still had a physical disk drive in it and less than 500 GB storage. I now have a custom Sager with Intel i7-10700K CPU 3.80 GHz and 32 GB RAM and a 4 TB SSD.

You obviously don't need specs this high, but I'd recommend Xotic PC if you want custom specs and do not want to build it yourself. I had good customer service, you pick the parts you want (and you can get a dead pixel warranty), several brands to choose from, and they do more than gaming laptops. Worst case scenario, you can get an expert opinion on what you would need to run Sims 4 on ultra.

I bought a new asus gaming laptop 3 years ago. It’s an i7 with 1070 graphics. 16gb ram. And it’s not an ssd, but a hybrid. And it doesn’t just have cooling vents in the bottom but the back and sides as well. My cheap HP couldn’t keep up. I own all the packs snd kits ( but no CC or mods ) and it seems to be keeping up well so far.

If I was to buy today, I would get one with all SSD, but they didn’t have them when I got mine, at that time they only had partial SSD

I have an Acer Aspire 5. I bought it in 2018 and it's still holding up pretty well, especially after a few hardware upgrades.
It runs well on medium settings with 11gb worth of mods. I've never played sims on ultra settings, but I imagine it'd make my laptop overheat.

"Calico45;c-17968387" wrote:
So, I do have a gaming laptop now, but you don't have to have one in my opinion.

Would yourself or anyone be able to recommend something that I can play the Sims 4 on but doesn’t fall in to the gamer category? My minimum specs would be 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD, a 10th gen or 11th gen processor. Have integrated graphics improved a lot or is it still necessary to have a dedicated graphics card for most games these days?