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imperfect-angel
3 years ago
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Graphics card question

Quick question. The laptop that I am looking to get has an AMD Radeon Vega 10 graphics card and I was wondering if that’s a good one to have. Can it run the Sims 4 with high settings along with CC an...
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    puzzlezaddict
    3 years ago

    @imperfect-angelx  The question is not how much custom content you have but how demanding it is to render, relative to in-game objects.  You can only use so much cc at once—a sim can only wear one outfit at a time, after all—so what matters is whether the cc takes more resources than Maxis clothes or objects would.  I can't tell you that since I don't know what cc you use, but if your favorite sources list the polygon count or offer "high poly" and "low poly" options, that's a good clue.

    At any rate, if you like this laptop overall, it's a good choice, and you should be able to play reasonably well no matter what.  The only questions is whether you'll need to turn down the settings a bit to compensate for the custom content.  And it's fine to play with those settings until you get something that works for you.

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3 years ago

@imperfect-angelx  If you'd like help looking, feel free to ask.  I'd just need to know your budget and which stores or sites you're willing to buy from.  But if you'd prefer to look yourself, the processors I listed can show up in somewhat cheap laptops these days now that Intel and AMD have released newer models.

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imperfect-angel
3 years ago

Thank you so much for your help and suggestions. I think I found one with the processor you suggested that is within my price range. The graphics card is an AMD Radeon Pro 560. The laptops in question I found on Amazon. If the Radeon Pro 560 can handle high graphics, I just might go with the laptop that has the Ryzen 5 processor and the Radeon Pro 560 graphics card instead of the one with the Ryzen 7 processor and the Radeon Vega 10 graphics card.

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    3 years ago

    @imperfect-angelx  The Pro 560 is somewhat faster than the graphics chip in an i5-1135G7, but the gap isn't massive.  There are two things that would give me pause in buying this laptop though.  One is that the Pro line is for professional work, not gaming, and thus doesn't have good driver support for games, meaning you might not see anywhere near the full potential of the GPU in Sims 4.  (Not that the card can't do the work; the problem is a lack of optimization.)

    The other issue is that the Pro 560 was released in 2017, and any laptop that has one is going to be at least four years old.  That doesn't mean that the laptop will fall apart tomorrow, but you might not get the same lifespan as a model assembled in 2022 with hardware released 2021.  It's just something to think about.

    • imperfect-angel's avatar
      imperfect-angel
      3 years ago
      I found one with the Intel i5-1135G7 processor and Intel Iris XE graphics. It is a 16GB laptop. Screen resolution is 1920x1080 pixels.

      Keep in mind that my cc folder currently sits at 64.6GB (7,000+ files, 176 folders) I do believe. It was much higher before I got rid of CC and mods that I wasn’t using anymore.
      • puzzlezaddict's avatar
        puzzlezaddict
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        3 years ago

        @imperfect-angelx  The question is not how much custom content you have but how demanding it is to render, relative to in-game objects.  You can only use so much cc at once—a sim can only wear one outfit at a time, after all—so what matters is whether the cc takes more resources than Maxis clothes or objects would.  I can't tell you that since I don't know what cc you use, but if your favorite sources list the polygon count or offer "high poly" and "low poly" options, that's a good clue.

        At any rate, if you like this laptop overall, it's a good choice, and you should be able to play reasonably well no matter what.  The only questions is whether you'll need to turn down the settings a bit to compensate for the custom content.  And it's fine to play with those settings until you get something that works for you.

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