Apr 18, 2020
Running the base game in a virtual machine without the support of virtualization hardware on a real computer. The performance of the game is at the level that would be on computers in 2005 or better. The reference point was taken on the platform based on the 4th Celeron on the Northwood core, 1 gig DDR266 with a GF 6200 graphics card. By the way, it was “overtaken” even without hardware virtualization support.
Source (RU): https://thesims.cc/posts/5719353