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Stefdreams
6 years ago
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Will this laptop run Sims 4, nicely?

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience this is my first time asking in the forum. A year or two ago I could run my Sims 4 in my old pc until Parenthood came, and since then I couldn't play without it clo...
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    puzzlezaddict
    6 years ago

    @Stefdreams  No, that laptop won't handle Sims 4 very well at all.  It does have a dedicated graphics card, but a weak one, and it has only 4 GB RAM.  The game itself can use 4 GB, but of course Windows will take a significant portion of that for itself.  You could certainly play the base game and a few game or stuff packs, or even an early EP or two, especially on lower settings.  If you're looking to play most or all packs on higher graphics settings though, you'd want something more powerful.

    If you post your budget and country, I can look for something that will handle Sims 4 better.  Please also let me know if there's anything else you'd want to do with this computer, like play other games or store a large collection of data, like music or photos.

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6 years ago

@24maddie  That's not a bad laptop for the price: its graphics card is capable of running Sims 4, all packs included, on medium high settings at least, or high if you don't have all the demanding expansions installed.  I would worry a little about buying from a third-party vendor on Amazon, but the seller does seem to have a good reputation.

If you can spend $1,000 though, you could get a gaming laptop with a proper gaming graphics card.  The Nvidia 1650 in this laptop is almost three times as fast as the MX250 in the one you found and can run all Sims 4 content on ultra settings with some room to spare, which would better accommodate the increased demands of future expansions.  The laptop doesn't have a lot of storage, but it's enough for Sims 4, your user data, plus however many small apps like browsers you'd want.

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/acer-15-6-gaming-laptop-intel-ci5-9300h-256gb-ssd-8gb-ram-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1650-windows-10-black/14475167

In between in price and performance would be this laptop, with an Nvidia 1050, although it's temporarily out of stock.  The 1050 is more than twice as fast as an MX250, although still significantly slower than the 1650, and would just barely handle all current Sims 4 packs on ultra settings.  This model also has twice the storage of the Acer.  I have no idea when this laptop would be back in stock, but you could contact Amazon and ask if there's a rough estimate.

https://www.amazon.ca/Asus-FX505DD-AB71-CA-7-3750H-GeForce-Gigabit/dp/B07RZFP2HT/

If you have more questions, please feel free to ask.  And if you'd like help looking for other options, just let me know what features you'd like to see, and how much you're willing to pay.

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    puzzlezaddict
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    6 years ago

    @24maddie  That's a better option than the other one you found, but still not in the same class as the laptop from Best Buy.  The integrated graphics chip in the Dell is a bit faster than an MX250, but an Nvidia 1050 is still maybe 50% faster for gaming.  Plus, having a dedicated graphics card, with its own dedicated memory, is always better, particularly if a system only has 8 GB memory.  That way, the card isn't borrowing from the system memory, at least not right away, leaving that entire 8 GB available for the processor to use.

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