hi , seeing that no one has posted this info yet here i'm letting all that wants to know there is now news on the SIMS 3 Requirements !! however this might change or more info might be added before the game comes out i read this info from this sims site
http://www.simprograms.com/ here is the info enjoy The Sims 3′ official specs are announced! SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR DESKTOP PC:
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FOR WINDOWS XP (Service Pack 2)
Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+ or equivalent
1GB RAM of Memory
GeForce FX 5900 / Radeon 9500 with at least 128 MB of RAM
FOR WINDOWS VISTA
Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ or equivalent
1.5 GB RAM of Memory
GeForce FX 5900 / Radeon 9500 with at least 128 MB of RAM
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR LAPTOPS:
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FOR WINDOWS XP (Service Pack 2)
Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ or equivalent
1.5GB RAM of Memory
GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600 with at least 128 MB of RAM
FOR WINDOWS VISTA
Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ or equivalent
2 GB RAM of Memory
GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600 with at least 128 MB of RAM
other info too According to InfiniteSims, they just received word thru an EA email with the minimum system requirements for The Sims 3 More than likely we will hear more information for the requirements closer to release .
edit more info is now so i'm just adding this to this post here is the new info 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.
also SIMS 3 Requirements info is now up at the sims 3 site too if anyone is wanting to look there too as of today thats where the newest info came from enjoy