+Mystic MVC Posted January 3, 2009 MVC Share Posted January 3, 2009 I haven't heard anything about this game for weeks! It is set to release in little over a month and a half there is no buzz at all. I find it kind of a nice change because instead of something getting over hyped (thus more disappointment), this has a fair shot. What's the buzz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 The system specs have been really increased. My laptop can still run it but it's getting close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denholm Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 What are the Sys Specs? Hope it runs on current generation iMac :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 The Sims 1 ran on Linux but the newer version don't, why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hani Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 they are not that high http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem...?item=236875146 FOR WINDOWS XP * Windows XP (Service Pack 2) * 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent * 1 GB RAM * At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content * 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 FOR WINDOWS VISTA * Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) * 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent * 1.5 GB RAM * At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content * 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 I'm really looking forward to this game, I'm a big fan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Star Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 My system specs are ready for this game. :D I can't wait for it to come out. Although I am not a die-hard fan of the series, I want to try it. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 they are not that high http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem...?item=236875146 FOR WINDOWS XP * Windows XP (Service Pack 2) * 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent * 1 GB RAM * At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content * 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 FOR WINDOWS VISTA * Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) * 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent * 1.5 GB RAM * At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content * 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 I'm really looking forward to this game, I'm a big fan! There much higher than the specs for The Sims 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crompee Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I'm guessing that they'll hype it as late as possible, to minimize the damage they get from anti-SecuROM people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samn9 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 The Sims 2 came out 5 years ago though, so a higher spec isn't surprising. I'm looking forward to this game, I enjoyed TS2 but was let down by Spore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted January 3, 2009 Author MVC Share Posted January 3, 2009 Thanks Hani those are really low! Obviously they want to get as many people playing as possible so the specs. are kept pretty low but jeez. :p Does the latest Intel Integrated graphics come with pixel shader 2.0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Hope it runs on Windows 7 without any hitchs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 There's a preview for it in the new PC Gamer issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted January 4, 2009 Author MVC Share Posted January 4, 2009 There's a preview for it in the new PC Gamer issue. Thanks, I didn't know that, I will definitely have to check that out. When does the new issue come out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 I got it in the mail. It has the most recent WOW expansion on the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted January 4, 2009 Author MVC Share Posted January 4, 2009 I got it in the mail. It has the most recent WOW expansion on the cover. I'll have to see what information I can find on the net then. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted January 4, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 4, 2009 Those are some hard stats :p Isn't the sims target audience people who don't have great spec laptops etc tho ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanManIt Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 I'll have to check out that issue as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_c_b Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Those are minimum specs, I'll bet recomended are quite a bit beefier, but typical of the franchise still failry mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted January 4, 2009 Author MVC Share Posted January 4, 2009 Those are minimum specs, I'll bet recomended are quite a bit beefier, but typical of the franchise still failry mainstream. I really want to see what they have everything looking like when its turned up to the max. It won't be a Crysis, that's for sure, but the Sims has always had a bunch of things going on screen at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 I really want to see what they have everything looking like when its turned up to the max. It won't be a Crysis, that's for sure, but the Sims has always had a bunch of things going on screen at once. You like The Sims? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted January 4, 2009 Author MVC Share Posted January 4, 2009 You like The Sims? :p I got the first Sims when I was 12 and played the heck out of it. Really one of those childhood staples that my parents were ok with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupik Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Those are some hard stats :p Isn't the sims target audience people who don't have great spec laptops etc tho ? Dude, nothing is "hard" at those requirements. I personally don't know anyone that still using a single core CPU processor bellow 2.4ghz, got less than 2gb of ram (the standard these days) and got bellow 128mb of vram. Oh, and the huge hard disk drives are damn cheap these days. I doubt a lot of people don't have 7GB of free space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Jolt Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 I guess this means no support for Mac OS X Leopard yet... I was really hoping too. No specs for it, just Windows. Anyway, maybe they might surprise us Mac users. What am I saying, I have seen the videos that show their computers and stuff and I still see Windows XP, they don't even use Windows Vista yet. I wish the team would take advantage of Windows Vista, obviously the game is going to have some bad graphics because they didn't feel like using DirectX 10 or something. They need to start taking advantage of the platforms's possibilities and working with them, like building a program for building the Sims but designing it to use OpenGL or DirectX 10 or 9, and making it work across the platforms but still take advantage of the technologies. So a program made to work on Mac OS X Leopard would use OpenGL and technologies related to that on the Mac OS X platform, and on Windows Vista, it would use DirectX 10 if it was there or just use 9, and on Windows XP it would use DirectX 9, and then the program would be able to port to all the other platforms, and depending on your platform, it might be beautiful graphics or if it is Windows XP, maybe ****ty graphics or beautiful but slow graphics. I have a thing with taking advantage of the technology you can, and when people use Windows XP to make something for XP and Vista, I obviously don't think its going to take advantage of all of Vista's great features. Yahoo Messenger 9 vs. Yahoo Messenger for Vista is my example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danisflying527 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Wow... once again the sims graphics look like **** Why can't they at least make better graphics for people with more high end computers? Don't get me wrong sims is not a bad game, gameplay is very well done but the look of it compared to most games now is ancient! 2.4ghz P4?? What is this the year 2004??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 There's a preview for it in the new PC Gamer issue. What countries does this magazine sell? UK by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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