Whats a Good Laptop For Modded Sim 4 Family?

[tankball]

right now my laptop is a HP Laptop 14-dk1025wm. its a good laptop since the bios update that came out that fix all the problems with it. but as the title says i have a modded sim 4 family with 14 sims

  

at times they will just stand there doing nothing its and its due to the laptop only have 2 cores. when i run the same save on my desktop with a 6 core ryzen CPU the sims tend to do still alot more then just standing around.

 

so im thinking of geting a ryzen 5 laptop that has 6 cores itself. but i was wonding what u all would think would work. the most i can go for is $500. so no gaming laptops.

 

 

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Check if you can upgrade the ram by at least 8gb-12gb and invest in a new or used gaming graphics card.

[Crazy Doll]

Got an i5 8300h, 8gb ram, with a GTX 1650 4Gb VRAM.

I run the game with a 100+ Gb mods folder + reshade + Gforce Experience filters without any issue.

Bought this laptop in november 2020 for 799€.

 

For 500€ will be hard to find a laptop with a CGU, you'll find only graphic chipset like Intel HD series that aren't recommended for gaming.

[Scorpio]

8 hours ago, tankball said:

so im thinking of geting a ryzen 5 laptop that has 6 cores itself. but i was wonding what u all would think would work. the most i can go for is $500. so no gaming laptops.

The game really only uses 2 cores so don't worry too much about 6 cores as the primary core clock speed is more important.

6 cores is fine if you don't overspend for it though.

16GB Ram

Decent Dedicated Graphics with 4GB memory not shared with the CPU.

SSD

 

A desktop with the same specs will still run circles around a laptop.

 

Large houses with lots of clutter and too many sims on a lot will be more taxing on any given system but laptops are the worst obviously.

 

Personally I don't think any $500 Laptop will be much better than what you have now.

You need to spend $1k or more to get there and I'd still be skeptical if only because what you're trying to do.

[tankball]

13 hours ago, Crazy Doll said:

Got an i5 8300h, 8gb ram, with a GTX 1650 4Gb VRAM.

I run the game with a 100+ Gb mods folder + reshade + Gforce Experience filters without any issue.

Bought this laptop in november 2020 for 799€.

 

For 500€ will be hard to find a laptop with a CGU, you'll find only graphic chipset like Intel HD series that aren't recommended for gaming.

i did have a gaming laptop that ended up being smashed by me so im not going back to one of those. also u know AMD APUs r thing right? my HP laptop is a ryzen 3 APU laptop and it runs sims fine. i just wanted a idea if someone knows of something better within $500. i know if i get a Ryzen 5 laptop it will smoke my ryzen 3 laptop.

 

right now im looking at something like a HP 15-ef2126wm its has a full 1080p screen, a Ryzen 5 5500U APU, and the ram is upgradable and 2 channel. 

[thaclone]

if you have a desktop PC, why would you use a laptop for gaming?

 

no matter how much money you spend on a laptop, it will be far from a middle class desktop PC

don't invest in a laptop, if you don't have to