evagee21 When some players, I'm not sure how many, launch Sims 4 on one of the affected Victus or Omen laptops, the game flashes white or black and gets stuck on that screen. Reinstalling the graphics driver doesn't help, nor does a new driver, nor does windowed mode or a clean boot or anything else I suggested. What does help is one of several workarounds:
The strangest thing, to me at least, is that none of these works for everyone. So it's not as simple as saying "this particular function is broken or not cooperating and here's a way around that."
Anyway, my point was that I didn't want to tell you to buy a laptop that wouldn't run Sims 4 out of the box without passing on that warning.
But you can avoid the issue entirely and still stay under budget. These are only marginally more expensive than the Victus and have the same graphics card and the same or an equivalent processor, plus 16 GB RAM and plenty of storage.
https://ao.com/product/fa506nchn003w-asus-laptop-black-99955-251.aspx
https://ao.com/product/83lk002tuk-lenovo-loq-15iax9e-laptop-grey-104897-251.aspx
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/gaming-and-games/g15-gaming-laptop/spd/g-series-15-5530-laptop
The Lenovo has the brightest screen, and the Asus will likely perform a bit better in processor-heavy tasks due to its RAM configuration (2x8 GB rather than 1x16). But they're all similar enough that you could choose based on whatever mattered to you and not lose out on anything important.