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Anonymous
9 years ago
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SIMS 4 video card

I ran the system requirements for SIMS 4. The only thing that needs fixed has the red X, video card. How can I fix this, even if I have to pay a few bucks?

XVIDEO CARD

Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X1300 or Intel GMA X4500 You Have: Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0) Click here for the latest Video Card drivers. Upgrade Suggested 1st percentile Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card     Required You Have Pixel Shader version 3.0 2.0a Vertex Shader version 3.0 2.0a Dedicated Video RAM 128 MB 64.0 MB

YES CPU

Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (2.0 GHz Dual Core required if using integrated graphics) You Have: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz Click here for the latest CPU drivers.   27th percentile

YESCPU SPEED

Minimum: Info You Have: 2.0 GHz    

YESRAM

Minimum: 2 GB You Have: 2.0 GB    

YESOS

Minimum: Windows XP You Have: Microsoft Windows 10 (build 10586), 32-bit Click here for the latest Windows drivers.    

YESFREE DISK SPACE

Minimum: 10 GB You Have: 261.5 GB Click here for the latest Free Disk Space drivers.    

YESSOUND CARD

Minimum: Yes You Have: Realtek High Definition Audio
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5 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Approved

    Desktop

  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    9 years ago

    While your answering my first question let me add these:

    The Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4400 is barely over the minimum and does not have turbo boost technology which makes it weak (maybe it will work but I think you will have problems at times). You have 2Gb of memory. You have a 32 bit operating system that can access only 4Gb of memory and 2GB may have problems (yes I know it's the minimum but 2Gb is low by today's standards and has been for a while). Your operating system is Windows XP. Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft Corp. and vendors like video card makers. NOBODY is supporting Windows XP. Windows XP device drivers are legacy which means that's as good as it will ever get. The Intel cpu E4400 was introduced in 2007 and that makes the technology 9 years old. If you consider that cpu processors are updated at least every year (more like every 6 months) that makes your processor way behind the performance curve. Windows XP only supports DX9. Yes Windows 10 DX12 will play DX9 games but you'll see your friends computer and ask why does your computer look better. If your computer is a laptop there is NO upgrade path for the video system. The video is built into the system board. And if it is a desktop I'm guessing that if the motherboard has a video slot it is an AGP video slot which also is been replaced  in newer motherboards with the PCIe video slot. Yes you could get used AGP video cards but again drivers are going to be a problem. If your computer is a laptop there's nothing you can do but buy a new laptop. If it's a desktop then upgrading would NOT add value and you may still have problems running today's games.

  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    9 years ago

    @alexis18578 Really need make and model of motherboard. DDR3 memory came to be common in 2009 (yes I know it was introduced in 2007) and the PCIe version 2.0 was introduced in 2007 so your motherboard may have some possibilities.

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