Cassini gets a laptop

[Cassini90125]

It depends on which bug and which system you're talking about. The situation on the laptop is pretty much as I described it above. I have it on now as a matter of fact; I'm in the process of decorating a house. The graphics problems are confined mostly to actual game play involving Sims, so I'm not having any problems at the moment. On my main system the game will load up to a point but if I try to enter one of the neighborhoods my entire system freezes up, shows me the Blue Screen of Death, and I have to kill the power to get out of it. The problem appears to be with the driver for my videocard, which I ironically purchased several months ago because the old card was doing the same thing. The driver is refusing to uninstall completely so I can't install the updated driver (overwriting doesn't work). It's frustrating and at times heartbreaking. It will eventually get fixed and restarted somehow, I just don't currently know how or when.

[One Radical Dude]

Actually, it's not impossible to be able to play games that have pretty high requirements with a notebook. However, you'd have to spend more for a gaming notebook than you do for a gaming desktop. I recently tried out a first-person shooter demo, just to see how it would do on my notebook. Obviously, playing it on my maximum resolution (which is WSXGA+, or 1680x1050) wouldn't play all that great, but a step or two below would be more than sufficient. To say that one shouldn't game on a notebook (or specifically The Sims 2), it depends on one's computer, to be honest. I can't say anything about The Sims 2, though.

[BluebottleFlyer]

Sounds like you got a good deal with that laptop there. As far as my own experience with trying to play The Sims/Sims 2 on a computer, it's never seemed to run very well on either a laptop or a PC.