Good computer for sims
Hi I was just wondering if the acre nitro 5 would be good to run the sims good and be able to get packs mods cc and that kinda stuff and run smoothly
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- @your_girl_ziy if you're talking about Acer, i'd stay away from them. They may have good specs, but their reliability has always been suspect. After all, back in the 1990's, you had people going door to door trying to sell them and stores that did stock them couldn't sell them.
@your_girl_ziy Yes, any new Acer Nitro 5 should run Sims 4 on ultra graphics settings. I'd normally ask to see a product listing, but all Nitro models come with a graphics card that's capable of handling ultra settings and other hardware to match. Regardless of previous reputation, the models from the past few years have been more reliable and reasonably good budget options.
If you'd like to see other recommendations, please list your budget and country as well as any other details that matter to you. I'll look around for other suitable options. But if you like the Nitro and would prefer to stick with it, it should be fine.
Still in the process of buying a new computer to play the sims 4 and I know I would need 18 gb of ram to run my sims with packs mods and cc but the computer I’m interested in has 512 gb of ssd is that enough I don’t know the difference.
- @your_girl_ziy These are different things. 18gb of ram and 512gb of ssd are good, but you need to know about other things, mainly about the graphic card and processor to be sure if it is a good computer.
@your_girl_ziy You're confusing memory and storage. Memory (RAM) is where your computer puts data it's using in the moment, so some data from Windows itself, essential drivers, and open applications. (The entire applications aren't loaded into RAM, just whatever is needed to run them.) You only need 8 GB RAM to run Sims 4 well, although more is nice to have.
Storage refers to where all the data your computer has saved is stored. So that's the full contents of all your applications, all your user data, all Windows's data, etc. 256 GB is enough for Sims 4 and your user files like saves and custom content, but 512 GB would be nice to have as well. SSD stands for solid-state drive, which is a type of storage. It's faster than traditional mechanical drives, but you don't have to worry too much about this because almost all new laptops come with an SSD.
As an example of the difference between memory and storage, the Sims 4 base game takes up about 18 GB storage. If you add all the packs, the total is more like 50 GB. But when you run the game, it only uses 2 to 5 GB of memory unless you have an extremely complicated save. The other data is available as needed, but the computer doesn't use all of it, so it doesn't all need to be in RAM.
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