My Nintendo Wii broke approximately three or four months ago and, whilst I could get it repaired, I see little point in doing so. I simply hang on to it in the hope of transferring my Wii Virtual Console purchases over to a Wii U if I should purchase one (apparently Nintendo aren't focusing so much on the casual market this time). Since purchasing an Xbox 360 around two years ago now and also creating a Steam account to play some of the great indie offerings such as Terraria and old classics like Deus Ex, I have opened my eyes to whole new varieties of my games and found the Wii's casual games no longer entertaining me as I have progressed from a casual gamer into more of a "hardcoe" gamer. However, as strange as this may seem, I am finding myself having a real craving to playthrough the original MySims game (Kingdom was also good, but later titles were just awful and betrayed the initial beauty of the franchise). It was simple, but I just loved building a town and wandering around it - literally spending hours in a pizza parlour baking pizzas before heading to a museum. The DS version of the game was very limiting, but I just found out it was released for PC too and is available right now for just ￡5 GBP on EA Origin! I am so stoked to play this, but could my lousy laptop run it?

• AMD Athlon II X2 P320 processor dual-core clocked at 2.1Ghz
  
• 4GB DDR3 Memory/RAM
  
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 with 256MB video memory
  
• Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium

http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=65853&tab=sysreqs

But, according to EA's Origin, Windows Vista (it doesn't even mention Windows 7 compatibility) requires a 2.4Ghz processor?

This is a game made for handhelds, phones, and a console that was outdated five years before it was released. You'll be fine.

Well, the handheld DS version is "dumbed-down" from the Wii Version, but okay. Are you sure? Does anyone here know if the PC version works as well as the Wii version did? Also, how is Origin? Does it require a constant internet connection and is it as good as Steam?

Has anyone here managed to get it working on Windows 7, 64-bit in particular? Also, it says 2.4 Ghz processor for Windows Vista. I didn't follow that for Left 4 Dead and I can't run that. Could anyone here offer a second opinion?

Nobody?

I don't see why it wouldn't work on Win7 if it works on Vista. You could always try running it in compatibility mode.


I'm tempted to recoil in revulsion and suggest you play the far superior Sims games on PC, although Sims 3 would run like ass on your PC.

EA. ORIGIN.


No. Play a different game.