Anybody else getting this to run on an iMac? My specs are Intel 2.4 and 3 gb of RAM, with the ATI RadeonHD2600 video card...it should be able to run the game right? 

i thought this game comes out tomm?
So yesterday I received the Sims 3 for Windows and Mac. I have an iMac G5 and am running it on Mac OS X 10.4.11. Sims 3 won't run on my computer at all - so as an alternative, I was checking to see if it would be possible to still operate Sims 3 on my machine if I update to Leopard and run the program on an external drive? I'm extremely ignorant but have open ears to explanations and other ideas as to how I could get this to work for me.
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I was wondering if any1 could tell me if it will run on my mac(didnt wanna start a new thread)
Mac osx leopard 10.5.7
RadeonX1600
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
I was wondering if any1 could tell me if it will run on my mac(didnt wanna start a new thread)
Mac osx leopard 10.5.7
RadeonX1600
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
For anyone interested:
I have been playing the Sims3 for a couple of weeks now using the widely available leaks. My retail copy arrived today (not actually due out in the UK till the 5th - pre-ordered - came early!).
Anyway - I was running Sims3 using Bootcamp in Windows XP on a Macbook Aluminum (9400M, 2.0GHz, 4GB Memory (2.7ish GB actually in use 32bit)). I had full 1280x800 res, all settings were on max with exception to draw distance which I left at default. Runs superbly - very fast graphics - faster than Sims2 on medium detail - obviously this is coded for the latest graphics chips.
So with my retail copy I decided to try it on OSX. Before I even tried playing, I put the settings at maximum, and loaded my saved game from the Windows game I was playing into the Mac side.
Noticeably longer loading times, graphics using the same settings are awful, jumpy and stutters a lot.
Poor graphics drivers from Apple, or poorly executed port? The game itself is running through a WINE emulator I believe - using the same filing system at its core as it does for Windows.
Anyone else notice this?
I can attest that it runs fairly poorly on my wife's late 2008 blackbook even on the lower and 4:3 resolutions, on the osx side anyway. I never believe the minimum requirement set by gaming companies.
Then again she could probably use another 2gb of ram. She is now installing on her win7 bootcamp partition...I will report back.
T,FTFYOnce again games ported from Windows are the suck for gaming.![]()