The Sims 3 lets you immerse truly unique Sims in an open, living neighborhood just outside their door! The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Your Sims can roam throughout their neighborhood, visit neighbors’ homes, and explore the surroundings. They can stroll downtown to hang out with friends, meet someone new at the park, or run into colleagues on the street. If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?! New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims. Determine your Sims’ shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular—and everything in between! Choose your Sims’ facial features, their exact skin tone, hair eye shape and color and select their clothing and accessories. Create realistic Sims with distinctive personalities. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. The combination of traits you choose—brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more—help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims. Your Sims can now rise above their basic set of every day needs. They are complex individuals with unique personalities. Build your dream house or design the ultimate home. Customize everything from floors to flowers, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades. It’s fun and easy to change colors and patterns giving you endless personalization options. Or you can populate your Sims’ neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes or low-cost cottages?

The Sims 3 requires at least the following:

For Windows XP:

• 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1 GB RAM
• A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
• At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content

For Windows Vista

• 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1.5 GB RAM
• A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1
• At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content.

• Intel Core Duo Processor
• 2 GB RAM
• ATI X1600 or Nividia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Intergrated GMA X3100.
• 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games.

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:

• 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

This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

Supported Video Cards


NVIDIA GeForce series

FX 5900, FX 5950 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280

ATI Radeon(TM) series

9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900,
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870,
4850, 4870
Intel(R) Extreme Graphics
GMA 3x00 series

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.