I have installed The Sims 3 on a laptop, which surpasses the requirements in everything but the CPU (which is 1.8GHz, but the requirement is 2.0GHz which I thought might slow it down, but shouldn't affect it too much, as I have played games on a wrong CPU before), and it installs fine, but when the disk Auto-plays it doesn't open the launcher for the game, as it should, it gives me Auto-play options (play in Windows Media player, open folder to view files etc...), and when I do press the icon to start it, the launcher takes a while (about 10 minutes) to load up fully and stops responding whenever I try to click anything, or just turns black with only the outline and Sims logo visible. The rest of the requirements are: RAM: 1GB (XP) 1.5 (Vista) - I have 2.9GB (Windows 7) Video Card: 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 - I have Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (with 3D and Pixel Shader 4.0 and 1.3GB of video RAM) Free disk space: 6.1GB (plus 1GB for saves and custom content) - and I have about 22GB left. I was wondering if the problem could be with the actual OS, as I heard it's not compatible with Windows 7, but I tried changing the compatibility to Vista and XP and that didn't help at all. The dxdiag is: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 6/26/2011, 19:25:46 Machine name: ALEX-PC Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Acer System Model: Aspire 5332 BIOS: InsydeH2O Version V2.05 Processor: Celeron(R) Dual-Core CPU T3000 @ 1.80GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.8GHz Memory: 3072MB RAM Available OS Memory: 3002MB RAM Page File: 1455MB used, 4546MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11 DX Setup Parameters: Not found User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent) DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode
