The Sims 2 on my desktop

[Dustin_Broke]

Someone said that you can play The Sims 2 on a PC that was a 800mHz and had a Intel graphics chip but I was wondering if it will really work. My desktop has a Intel Direct AGP graphics chip so it uses a AGP2X bus. The speed I have is a 1 gHz Celeron processor and it has 512mb PC100 SDRAM. I know that my laptop that has also a Intel video chip plays The Sims 2 but I didn't know if this desktop can play this game. Both are using AGP bus so that is good.

I got the desktop right when Windows XP came out so it was around November 2001 and it did cost around $450. The laptop did cost alot more and I did get that system around June 2002.


The desktop I have is a eMachines T1100.

Here are some specs for my system. My system came with 128mb of system ram but I upgraded to 512mb later.



T1100 Support Information
Specifications
CPU : Intel® Celeron® Processor 1GHz (w/128KB)
Operating System : Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

Chipset : Intel® 810 chipset, 100MHz FSB
Memory : 128MB SDRAM
Hard Drive : 20GB HDD
Optical Drive : 12x Max. Write CD-RW Drive; 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
Video : Intel® DirectAGP 3D (810 shared)
Sound : Intel® 82801 AC '97 Audio
Modem : 56K ITU v.92-ready PCI internal Fax/Modem
Peripherals : Keyboard, Mouse, Stereo Speakers
Ports/Other : 2 USB ports (1 on front bezel), 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2, Audio In & Out, 1
Midi/Game on front bezel, Mic-In & Head Phone jack on front

Graphics Controller

Type AGP 2x - Integrated

Graphics Processor / Vendor Shared video memory (UMA)

Supported Display Graphics VGA (640x480) , SXGA (1280x1024) , XGA (1024x768) , SVGA (800x600)

 

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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OS: Windows Vista/XP/ME/2000/98 (Windows 95/NT/ME not supported)
Processor: 1.3 Ghz processor (2.0 for Vista)
Memory: 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista)
HDD: 5.0 GB (for base game and expansions)
Video Card: T&L-capable video card with 32 MB of video RAM
CD/DVD-Rom Speed: 8x
Sound Card: DirectX 7.0 compatible
DirectX version: DirectX 7.0
Input: Mouse,Keyboard

Supported video cards:

ATI Radeon(TM) series 8500 or better (9600 or greater required for Vista)
8500, All-In-Wonder 8500
9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
X300, X600, x700, X800, x850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) series
Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4

NVIDIA GeForce series GeForce2 GTS and better (GeForce 6200 or greater required for Vista)

GeForce 2, 2 GTS
GeForce 3, 3 Ti
GeForce 4, 4 Ti, 4200, 4600, 4800, MX 420, 440, 460
GeForce FX 5200, 5500, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950
GeForce PCX 5300, 5900
GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800
GeForce 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
S3 GammaChrome
S18 Pro
S18 Ultra
Intel(R) Extreme Graphics (see note below)
82865, 82915 and above

Can You Run It

The top is what is the system requirements are listed as. The link is to a site that will test your system for you and let you know if you can run the game or not.

 

[Dustin_Broke]

I use to use that website that tells you if a game will run but around 2 years agao when they updated the website I have been having some problems with it like even if my system meets a certain game it will say it doesn't meet. Like example back before 2 years agao it would say a game called UT 2004 will run since it meets the minimum req. But then later when they did the update it said it doesn't meet. Also even for The sims game before it would say I meet the minimum req and even the recommended req but after the update now it says I don't meet.

They must of did something when they updated there website and caused it to not detect right.

Also I noticed something like this but sometimes when I detect my Sony laptop PC it would say something like 1200mHz and the req is 1.0GHz and when this happens it would say the CPU doesnt meet even basicly 1200mHz is 1.2gHz. This happened even the old versoin of the website but the newer one has more problem. This even happens on my eMachines desktop too.

One other thing I noticed that if my system is a Celeron processor it would say that it won't work since it's not a Pentium II or Pentium III even if the processor speed meets or is higher than the game needs.