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Therefore, it is certainly not advised to play The Sims 3 with a graphics card from this group. Also the image quality will be less than normal. The game will most likely be slower than usual and sometimes falter. The game will be able to run in some circumstances on the lowest settings. Group 2: These cards do not meet the advised minimum specifications but are compatible with minor tweaking Subgroup 3: Recommended minimum requirements for The Sims 3 Pets Subgroup 2: Recommended requirements for The Sims 3 Subgroup 1: Very suited for The Sims 3 and expansion packs Group 1: These graphics cards meet the minimum requirements for The Sims 3 We also strongly advise agains playing the game with a Intel GMA X3100, Radeon X300 SE, Radeon 9600 LE, GeForce 6200, GeForce 7200 GS and potential others. Graphics cards from group 2 “These cards do not meet the advised minimum specifications but are compatible with minor tweaking” will most likely have some problems with running The Sims 3 Seasons. However the official minimum requirements won’t change with The Sims 3 Seasons, we expect the game to be much more demanding than the basic game. This way you’ll be able to run The Sims 3 and its expansions on medium settings if the remainder of your system suffice the minimum requirements. An example is PC-Wizard (free).įor a new sytem we recommend a graphics card from subgroup 2 “Recommended requirements for The Sims 3”. There are also programs which can provide you extensive information about the components in your computer. Most people use (NVIDIA) Geforce or (ATI) Radeon graphics cards. Most of the graphics card data can be found in the second tab “Display”. Now you will probably see the first tab “System”. Enter “dxdiag” without the quotes and click OK.Click “Run” (for Vista: the search window with the text “Start Search”).What graphics card do I have?ĭon’t know what graphics card you have? This is easy to find using the program “dxdiag” for Windows: The first group is divided in different subcategories because of the graphical problems with The Sims 3 Pets. The graphics cards are divided in 3 categories. Below you can find a summary of mainly desktop graphics cards in which you can see how the overall perform compared toe each other.