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The Sims 3

The Sims 3

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🏗️ Simulation Adventure 🗡️ RPG Sandbox ♟️ Strategy #Single-Player

🖥️ The Sims 3 system requirements

Minimum and recommended PC specs (official, from Steam). Meeting "Minimum" means you can play; for smoother visuals and higher settings, refer to "Recommended".

🖥️ Can your PC run The Sims 3?

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Requirement equivalentGPU tierCPU tierMemory
Minimum 128 MB 顯示記憶體的顯示卡 (estimated) 2 GHz processor (estimated) 1 GB

💻 Minimum

OS *
Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
Processor
(XP) 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent; (Vista) 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
Memory
(XP) 1 GB; (Vista) 1.5 GB
Graphics
128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
Hard Drive
At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
Built-in Graphics
Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
0.5 GB additional RAM
Supported Video Cards
Nvidia GeForce series: FX5900 or greater, G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150, GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 275, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295; ATI Radeon™ series: ATI Radeon 9500 series of greater, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870 series or greater; Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA): GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-Series
*Please note that the GeForce 6100 and 7100 cards are not supported

Source: Steam store page (updated 2026/10/10). Requirements may change after updates; check the store page before buying.

🎮 Can popular graphics cards run The Sims 3?

Intel UHD / HD 630 (integrated) ✅ Playable Intel Iris Xe (integrated) ✅ Playable GTX 1050 Ti ✅ Playable GTX 1650 ✅ Playable GTX 1060 6GB ✅ Playable GTX 1660 Super ✅ Playable RTX 2060 ✅ Playable RTX 3050 ✅ Playable RTX 3060 ✅ Playable RTX 4060 ✅ Playable RTX 4060 Laptop ✅ Playable RX 580 ✅ Playable RX 6600 ✅ Playable RTX 4070 Super ✅ Playable RTX 5070 ✅ Playable

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