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myLot reputation of 94/100. chance2691 (458)   ranked 17 out of 173 in the sims11 months ago

My fairy godmother's been a nice person to buy us up the entire collection of the Sims, really. The only problem is that we don't own a desktop computer, so we once tried to install it in the laptops. THE GAME CRASHED. It felt heartbreaking 'cause the PC series was the one I preferred, to be honest. Now all we can do is play it on the XBOX, which is now obsolete. Hmph.

Have you tried installing the Sims in your laptop? Did it run?

 
 
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1. darcmay (20)   11 months ago

my laptop handle the sims 2 fairly well. a little laggy but it didn't crash. did you check and make sure the laptop was compatible? like, its graphics card is up to date? that could fix it.

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2. myLot reputation of 78/100. spoiledbrat802 (3595)   11 months ago

It will run on a laptop, if it meets the system requirements of the game. You have to remember that Sims is a graphic-and-memory intensive game. It will run on a 512mb RAM but the recommended is at least 1 gig. You also need to have a good graphics card. A lot of the newer laptops have powerful onboard graphics accelerator. But you need at least 128mb of dedicated graphics memory, especially if you're running Sims 3.

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3. luckyluke02 (1)   11 months ago

It runs ok on my laptop but i had to change some things to make it run better because my laptop is on vista so i had to right click the desktop icon and press run as xp service pack 2 and it run a lot better than vista you can also try increase your virtual memory by opening control panel going to classic view opening system then advanced and settings in the performance settings advanced then virtual memory and press change depending on the hard drive space put aroun 5000mb in there then it should run smooth.hope this helps.

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4. myLot reputation of 62/100. docdocdoc (184)   11 months ago

not all versions of sims are laptop friendly. I know 3 sims - sims life stories, castaway stories and pet stories- on the cover there's something like laptop friendly written. the game sa are great but not as great as what you may think. I'm still waiting for the sims 3. i just can't wait. but i don'r have an idea if i could play it using this computer because the video card gave up.huhu

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5. myLot reputation of 96/100. youless (15250)   ranked 3 out of 173 in the sims   11 months ago

I have the Sims. But there is no problem to run it from my laptop. I can't see why you will have problem to run this game. Perhaps your laptop's equipment can't support it. Such as not enough ROM?

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6. myLot reputation of 96/100. elitess (2655)   11 months ago

Hi there Chance. There is a real possibility that you computer does not have enough resources of one kind (or more) to support the game. You should take a look at the system requirements the game was provided with, and compare with what you have (Processor speed, Ram memory, Video Card)

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7. myLot reputation of 45/100. playwright82 (130)   11 months ago

I didn't have a problem with The Sims on my laptop until my disk drive broke. There must be something on your computer that is not compatable with the game. You might want to check the system settings on your laptop and update them or get a new one. Just a thought.

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