Official Sims 3 Ambitions Requirements SimTimes shared with us the new and revised official Sims 3 Ambitions Requirements from EA: The Sims 3 Ambitions Requirements . MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR PC: ———————— FOR WINDOWS XP (Service Pack 2) Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+ or equivalent 1GB RAM of Memory At least 3.5 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 The latest version of DirectX 9.0c FOR WINDOWS VISTA & WINDOWS 7 Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ or equivalent 1.5 GB RAM of Memory At least 3.5 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 The latest version of DirectX 9.0c FOR COMPUTERS USING BUILT-IN GRAPHICS CHIPSETS, THE GAME REQUIRES AT LEAST Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above (GMA 3-series or higher). 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent 1.5 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista) SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS FOR PC: ———————— NVIDIA GeForce series FX 5900, FX 5950 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800 9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800 G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150, GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 275, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295 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 X3×00 series (3-Series GMA), GMA 4-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. . MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR MAC: ———————— OPERATING SYSTEM Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher PROCESSOR Intel Core Duo MEMORY (RAM) 2GB HARD DISK SPACE 3.5GB of space, 1 GB extra for saved games and custom content VIDEO CARD ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of video RAM or Intel Integrated GMA X3100 SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS FOR MAC: ———————— NVIDIA GeForce series 5900 or higher 7300, 7600 8600, 8800 9400M, 9600M GT G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150, GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 275, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295 ATI Radeon™ series 9500 or higher X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950 2400, 2600, 2900 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870 4850, 4870, 4890 or higher Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) GMA X3×00 series Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) GMA 3-Series and GMA 4-Series. This game will not run on Mac systems with processor PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) or video cards with integrated GMA 950 series. Note that the GeForce 6100 and 7100 are not supported.
