UPDATE – 12/18/08 – The official Sims site revised the minimum specs to include more detail, so this post was updated to reflect those changes.

According to InfiniteSims, they just received word thru an EA email with the minimum system requirements for The Sims 3.  Guess it is time for me to get off my butt and finally publish the System Requirements page for TS3!  More than likely we will hear more information for the requirements closer to release, but here’s what we have so far:

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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FOR WINDOWS XP (Service Pack 2)

  • Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+ or equivalent
  • 1GB RAM of Memory
  • At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
  • 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

FOR WINDOWS VISTA (Service Pack 1)

  • Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ or equivalent
  • 1.5 GB RAM of Memory
  • At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
  • 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

FOR COMPUTERS USING BUILT-IN GRAPHICS CHIPSETS, THE GAME REQUIRES AT LEAST

  • Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
  • 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
  • 1.5 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista)

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SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS:
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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.

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