Electronic Arts Sims 3 for PC

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The Sims 3 will surprise you with unexpected moments of fun and mischief!

Create Sims with unique personalities with Sims 3!  Every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality. Will your Sims be evil, artistic, insane, and romantic kleptomaniacs? It’s entirely up to you. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with traits you’ve chosen and watch how their traits impact their relationships and the neighborhood around them. If your Sim is a hopeless romantic, take them to the bistro in search of love. Take your Outdoorsy Sim fishing in the park or lead your evil Sim to the graveyard to converse with less than savory characters after dark. If your Sims are in the right place and the right time, who knows what might happen? Combine over 60 personality traits to create millions of unique Sims and control their lives.

Expand your game with exclusive content and share creations with other players at TheSims3.com!

The official The Sims 3 includes exclusive extra game content and robust online features - available only after you register online with an authentic copy of the game.

• Unlock a second town, exclusively available for you to download & expand your game. Riverview is a complete town set in a countryside, that’s dotted with farms and nestled by a winding river. This seemingly sleepy little town comes with an entirely new set of inhabitants with secrets for you uncover.
• Get $10 Worth of SimPoints to customize your game with additional in-game items from The Sims 3 Store.  The Sims 3 Store will include hundreds of all-new, exclusive items for you to download into the game. The Sims 3 Store will feature a variety of new outfits, hairstyles, furniture, home décor, and architectural items to customize your Sims appearance & houses in all-new ways. Each month, The Store will release additional, never-seen-before themed items.
• Unleash your creativity & share content with other players at TheSims3.com:
  • The Exchange: The new & improved version of the popular Exchange highlights featured player created items, most popular downloads, powerful search and browser capabilities, and gives you the ability to see what others are recommending.
  • Create a Movie and Create a Story: New easily accessible tools inspire creativity and let you create movies and stories and then show them off or share them with friends. Show off your movies with the Create a Movie Tool by embedding them on external sites or with an email link back to the movie on TheSims3.com.
  • My Page and My Studio: Create your very own profile page and manage all your creations on one page – Movies, stories, Exchange objects. Use your profile page to blog space to post news, customize it with your personal avatar, track favorites and more. You can make friends with other The Sims 3 players and easily share content across a number of social network sites.

Determine your Sims ultimate destiny!
Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? You decide! Face short- and long-term challenges and reap the rewards. Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead in life, get even with enemies, and more. As you play you’ll find that some Sims will obey and some Sims will stray as they pursue their life’s destiny.

Customize Everything
Enjoy complete customization over your Sims' appearances with the new Create a Sim. Enjoy new, easy-to-use design tools that allow you to fine-tune your Sims' facial features, hair color, eye color, and more. Determine your Sims' body shape from thin to full-figured to muscular - and everything in between!  Take control of your Sims' style with the new Create a Style tool. Customize the patterns and colors of everything from your Sims' clothing to their furniture, walls and floors, and even the car sitting out in their driveway! Design and build your Sims' dream home whether it’s a sleek bachelor pad in the center of town, a mansion over looking the ocean, or a cottage by the park. Decorate their life to fit their unique personality.

• Windows XP (Service Pack 2), Vista (Service Pack 1)
• 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent for Windows XP
• 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent for Windows Vista
• 1 GB of RAM for Windows XP
• 1.5 GB of RAM for Windows Vista
• At least 6.5 GB of Hard Drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
• 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• DirectX 9.0c
• DVD-ROM Drive

• Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
• Intel Core Duo processor
• 2 GB of RAM
• 6.1 GB of Hard Drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games
• ATI X1600 or NVIDIA 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
• DVD-ROM drive

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

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 series

• 9500, 9600, 9800
• X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
• X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
• 2400, 2600, 2900
• 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870
• 4850, 4870

Intel Extreme Graphics

• GMA X3x00 series

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts will not perform adequately.

Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.  Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn't listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.