At that time I really gambled passionately Sims 2 but what EA made the third part is really an impertinence! I have to mention that to date my PC system is technically (Q9550, GTX285, 4GB RAM), I installed the latest drivers and with any DX10 game until now had problems except this one !! Sims3 is a single slide show with me in highest settings! Once I was growing closer to my Sim zoome levels the playing of a single Ruckelorgie! On my system it is not 100%. Thus, it can only be with the Game are related (in forums you can find enough to the poor performance of the game, even in tests of course) I had up to now a number of crashes and strangely unlike Crysis, which is well known for its hardware hunger, only problems! Other criticisms on my part are completely messed up control unlike Sims2, the audacity on the part of EA to praise this game as a third part rather than as an add (hardly changes) and especially the mediocre graphics! We already expect nowadays a better appearance. The game is similar to actually Sims2 and looks in some cases even worse! The innovations keep very limited and of the much-vaunted freedom you realize very little! For leisure activities actually remains very little time, if you regularly send the Sim to work and must take care of any problem that it causes! And this is where I have to express criticism again! The AI of the Sims is unfortunately (again) unterirdisch- One must always check whether the stove has once caught fire, if the bathroom is under water or the kitchen is cleaned up! On the ledge you have to take good care (as it was then when the Tamagotchi, which were also not stupid!). The long-term motivation therefore think, of course, also very limited. All in all I can for the game mainly because of the performance issues to express absolutely no buy recommendation and can only advise everyone to leave it alone!