Does Sims 3 work on older computers or does it require and newer computer?

<3TomFelton: Does Sims 3 work on older computers or does it require and newer computer?
I have like a 10 year old computer and I wanted to know if the Sims 3 needs a newer computer, or will work on any computer? I had the Sims 2 and it worked for about a year and a half, then it stopped. So will Sims 3 work on and older computer?
Thanks.

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Answer by bob smith
My buddy’s daughter bought that game about a month ago and I was shocked to see the system requirements for it.

If your PC is 10 years old, it probably won’t be able to handle the game.

Answer by <33
as long as you have enough ram to run it and you have the updated partition (the most updated windows like XP or whatever) than it should run fine
you could have a computer from like 1999 and have windows 2009 on it it should run smoothly

applies for any computer as well

Answer by Erik S
well if the game is from 2000 up it wont work but is from 1999 down it has to work

Answer by George
This site can help you find that out…

Answer by Pansexual Phantom

On the left side of this page is a button that will run a system check and tell you whether or not your computer will run The Sims 3 according to their specs.

Answer by Emma D
Im not sure. Even my computer is a windows XP and the game is sooooo boring because its so slow. sometimes it crashes and i have to turn the computer off at the wall and i never got to save the game. i found out this happened because i needed a better driver card. u can get ur card updated or somthing if u give to a special pc man. u can test if ur computer can run it at:

Answer by Cherry
The Sims 3 doesn’t have the same requirements as The sims 2. They made it with lower requirements so that many people could play sims 3 without having to buy another computer or other things for their old one (as happened with sims 2). So I think it will work fine.

Answer by Sally J
it needs a shader 2.0 graphic card or higher. so you’ll probs need a newer comp.

Answer by Paigers
Well I had Sims 2 for a year and a half and it worked fine on my computer. Then I got Sims 3 for my birthday and everytime i tried to get on it; it would take forever even just to load the homescreen. So I uninstalled A lot of programs that i hardly ever used and sims 2 (i lost all the families i made) and i tried Sims 3 again. It still was slow.
And my computer is only 5 years old.

Answer by Singer4Life
On the Sims 3 website, there is a system requirements checker. It will run a test on your computer to see if it meets the requirements. wwwthesims3.com is the website. I hope this helped!

Answer by saiena
Probably not. Check out your system requirements and then see if they comply with the requirements on www.thesims3.com.
If you do put it on it will most likely go extremely slow and have a bad picture because the quality of the sims 3 is very high.