Can I play The Sims 4 on my laptop?
Hi, I have a question about whether I can play The Sims 4 on my laptop or not. I have a Lenovo Ideapad 17,3 I3- 1215U. According to the system requirements on the EA website, my laptop meets the min...
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Butterflowery Multitasking in this sense means using multiple apps on your computer at the same time. For example, while you play, you might have a couple browser windows open, and also Spotify, and also a photo editing program, etc. All of these use at least a little bit of RAM if they're open at all, and more if you're actively switching to them, and sometimes a bit even if you think you've closed them. (They can leave background tasks open.) Restarting the system releases all this memory, as long as you don't open the apps again, of course.
As for whether you could upgrade the memory, that depends. I'd need to know your exact model—some have one or two free slots for memory modules, and in others, the RAM is all soldered to the motherboard.
When I mentioned excessive heat, it was in the context of saying this is the only meaningful way to damage a laptop quickly, and it's not specific to Sims 4 or any other software. You'll get wear and tear on the components even with normal use, but this is on a scale that's unlikely to matter for the useful lifespan of the computer. So other than physical damage, say from dropping the laptop, heat is the only significant risk you need to pay attention to.
Laptop chassis are built to dissipate as much heat as their components can produce, or often more since one chassis may be reused for a number of different configurations. As in, your laptop chassis might be equipped to handle all the heat that an i7-1265U can produce, a processor that's a higher SKU and capable of generating significantly more heat. This is speculation since I don't know what model you have, but it's cheaper for the manufacturer to have only a few chassis that can accommodate a wide range of hardware, and as I noted earlier, the i3-1215U doesn't produce much heat, relatively speaking.
So the point is that as long as you don't artificially impede the laptop's ability to cool itself, and it's not mechanically defective (e.g. a broken fan) and doesn't have its vents blocked by dust, it should be able to dissipate however much heat it produces running Sims 4. Plus, modern hardware, especially the processor, is built to throttle when it senses it's overheating, thus protecting itself from damage.
The fan or fans running at high speeds isn't necessarily a sign of a problem, and you can check the components' temperatures if you're worried. You can also get a cooling fan or pad to help. And when you're not getting someone else to check out the laptop, you can use compressed air to blow out the vents, that is if nothing is stuck there. But opening it up is better.
As for why Sims 4 runs slowly, we can look into that once you have the laptop back, that is if you don't get a good answer from the shop. Feel free to tell them that I see players running the game on hardware like yours, and even weaker components, all the time. The experience isn't ideal but is certainly good enough to keep them playing.
Hi,
Thanx.
I have my laptop back from the store. They did a general check up and say it works fine. They didn’t want to look further at the laptop to see if something is wrong with it, and to see if the problem from last year caused other problems. And they got annoyed with me and didn’t even listen when I asked them to look at the Sims.
There was minimal dust in it, which is at least removed.I’ll put my laptop on a right surface from now on, I have it in a laptop case, and the little bit of dust is removed. From reading what you say, I would think my laptop then shouldn’t get overheated.
The thing is: there wasn’t much dust that blocked the vents, and the computer also got really overheated really fast when I placed it on a table. While it shouldn’t. The overheating got less a while back after I updated the computer (the laptop, not the Sims game). I don’t understand this. Because I alway’s update my laptop when it has to, and before that time, it never decreased the overheating. The loud sound, however, didn’t change at all. Before, that would alway’s go together with the overheating. I didn’t yet check what happens if I play the Sims for longer than an hour or maybe 2 hours after that.
I alway’s thought the loud sound meant the laptop was going to get overheated, mainly because that would alway’s happen at the same time. Because of that it stresses me out. Is it normal that the laptop makes this big sound? I don’t multitask when I play the Sims and most of the times that I played it, I just started the computer up to play the Sims, so I didn’t open any other apps before that. Only a screen from the virusscanner and the EA app open automatically (and that virusscanner had to do with the problem last year). The virusscanner window I close (I don’t know if it leaves any background tasks).Other than the overheating and the sound the game runs ok if I don’t play it on too high settings, untill the thing with the camera options. (The Sims 4 doesn’t run slow on the right settings, my laptop does).
How can I find out the exact model of my laptop? I wrote down the whole name I could find on the papers that came with it.
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