sims 3 on Asus X553MA

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my Asus X553MA runs sims 3 with all its expansions put with immense lag, it is unplayable. is it the laptop or the game? should I be able to play it? or are the added expansions too much?

 

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note i don't have windows ten

 

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The laptop is too weak to play games. It is good enough to do typical schoolwork, surf the web and watch videos. It uses an Intel Bay-Trail generation Atom CPU that are also used in tablets and it fine for the basics, but not really good for games.

The following Asus laptop for $335 is much better for playing Sims 3 which has a Core i3-5020u and integrated Intel HD 5500 graphics core. Note, the benchmarks are based on laptops with the Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs which are a bit faster than the Core i3-5020u so the Asus will have a bit lower performance.

http/www.amazon.com/Asus-Premium-Performance-i3-5020U-Bluetooth/dp/B01F44ILHU/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1465085011&sr=8-9&keywords=asus+core+i5+laptop


It is not a powerful laptop, but for the Sims 3 it will be fine. The below link has some game benchmarks which includes the newer Sims 4 where it performs "good enough" if your expectations are low. It's a newer game so it will have higher system requirements than the Sims 3. The Intel HD 5500 is decent enough to play non graphics demanding game with some tweaking.

http/www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5500.125586.0.html



Generally though, I recommend the following $500 Acer laptop with a Core i5-6200u and nVidia 940m if you intend on playing games. The nVidia 940m is mainstream graphics card, it's not considered a "gaming GPU", but it is a lot more powerful than the Intel HD 5500.

http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315302&cm_re=acer_940m-_-34-315-302-_-Product

http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940M.138027.0.html