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The Sims 4 System Requirements

28 Aug 2014 - Specs reviewed

Official Minimum Requirements

MINIMUM:
PROCESSOR: 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 Dual-Core 4000+
GEHEUGEN:2 GB RAM
HARDE SCHIJF: 10 GB
VIDEOKAART: 128 MB aan Video RAM en ondersteuning voor Pixel Shader 3.0 Ondersteunde Graphics cards:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better,
ATI Radeon X1300 or better,
Intel GMA X4500 or better
DIRECT X: DX 9.0c

Official Recommended Requirements

RECOMMENDED
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 of sneller, AMD Athlon X4
GEHEUGEN: 4GB RAM
HARDE SCHIJF: 10 GB
VIDEOKAART: NVIDIA GTX 650 or better,
Ati Radeon HD 6770 or better
DIRECT X: DX 9.0c

PC System Analysis For The Sims 4 Requirements

Your PC will need a graphics card thats as powerful as a GeForce GTX 650 1GB/Radeon HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 and it should be paired with either a Athlon X4 750K/Core i5-680 3.6GHz CPU to match the The Sims 4 recommended system specs. This PC setup will deliver 60 Frames Per Second on High graphics settings on 1080p monitor resolution. 4 GB will also be needed to achieve the The Sims 4 rec specs and get 60FPS. You should also have 2 GB system memory for min specs. Make sure your GPU can run DirectX 9 or The Sims 4 won’t run. We suggest a 9 year old PC to play smoothly.

FPS System Benchmark

200+ FPS

High

Graphics Card

GTX 1060

How well optimised is The Sims 4 for PC? The Sims 4 is excellently optimized

8.1

Where does The Sims 4 rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Management, Sandbox, Social

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Minimum Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

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VRAM

RAM

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Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz

Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+

GeForce 6600 GT

Radeon X1300 256MB

128 MB

2 GB

Win Xp 32

DX 9

9 GB

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Core i5-680 3.6GHz

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GeForce GTX 650 1GB

Radeon HD 7750 1GB GDDR5

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Win Xp 32

DX 9

9 GB

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The Sims 4 PC Release Date:

5 Sep 2014

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