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Will Sims 3 work on Rev 1 Air?

shuffles

shuffles

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I was wondering if anyone knows if the sims 3 will work on the first release of the macbook air? I have the 1.6 80gb version.

thanks.
 
shuffles said:
I was wondering if anyone knows if the sims 3 will work on the first release of the macbook air? I have the 1.6 80gb version.

thanks.
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Most probably not. The processor is slightly below spec and I can't remember what Graphics came included on rev a air, but suspect that it isn't quite up to spec.
 
It will probably run, albeit slowly.

However, it does meet all of Apple's requirements (through their website):

Intel Core Duo processor
2GB of RAM
128MB of VRAM
ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT or Intel Integrated GMA X3100

It also says "Note: For Windows computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires a GMA 3-series or later Intel Integrated Chipset; 2.6GHz Pentium D processor or 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo or equivalent; 0.5GB of additional RAM."

Any reason why Mac requirements would be lower than Windows?
 
drjsway said:
It will probably run, albeit slowly.

However, it does meet all of Apple's requirements (through their website):

Intel Core Duo processor
2GB of RAM
128MB of VRAM
ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT or Intel Integrated GMA X3100

It also says "Note: For Windows computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires a GMA 3-series or later Intel Integrated Chipset; 2.6GHz Pentium D processor or 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo or equivalent; 0.5GB of additional RAM."

Any reason why Mac requirements would be lower than Windows?
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Possibly because for macs there is only a limited number of graphics cards that they need to build support for so they can specifically optimize per card as opposed to general quality brackets that encompass every card ever that can be used on a Windows computer?

Really just a shot in the day. haha.
 
I think it'll work under boot camp, but not very well. The rev. b should run it without any problems under osx or windows
 
Spore worked on the GMA950, but it randomly froze on some parts of the game.
 
oh my god
no

I tried Sims 2 on my rev A hdd and lord, it was not happy.
Frame rate started poor (on lowest specs) and throttled to unacceptable levels.

As much as I'd like it to run, I'm harbouring my doubts.
 
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