EA insisted that cities had to be so small because of the complexity of tracking each individual Sim - obviously another lie. I believe some of the hacked versions also removed the tiny size limits for the cities. It was purely an anti-piracy measure, and legit copies of the game would frequently quit because of server disconnections while pirate versions functioned fine. That was proven to be a lie when the game was cracked. Originally it was always online, as EA claimed that the background simulation required cloud processing to work. Visiting each island meant saving, quitting, reloading. But the game isn't really designed to function like that, and the links between islands would break down while the other ones were idle. I had an industrial one where I'd send all my garbage and generate power, and another one for a luxury holiday island. It's meant to be played with a group of players managing separate tiny cities on a larger map, and I tried that once but getting a group together was difficult back then - impossible now.īecause building space runs out so quickly, I started creating separate cities of my own to service the main one. Sim Town/Village would be a more accurate title. The problem that made me (and probably most of its player base) abandon it after a while is that the cities you can create are absolutely tiny. I played it a lot when it first came out, it has a really good interface, it's fun to play and it looks great. I assumed it had been discontinued, since it's the game that effectively killed the Sim City brand. Performance wise it seems to run at least as solid as it did with XP SP3.I had no idea they'd done any expansions for this (the complete edition). I get the odd glitch with audio - it sort of replays a few seconds, but nothing that really matters. I have SC4 graphics set to run 32bit hardware and only use 1024x768. I've seen some strange graphic issues (such as multi colour EL train lines), but nothing major and from what I can tell they seem to be those glitches already being reported due to the NAM 31 mod - which I have to say is an amazing update! This setting seems rather important else my system takes forever to actually get the game running. drivers.Īnti virus is ESET Nod32 6.0.314.0 set to gamer mode before executing SC4. Sound is the motherboard Realtek with ver 6. My card is an NVidia 9800GT with ver 314.07 drivers. I'm not running in any XP compatibility mode nor with Admin privileges selected. Thanks to those whom have posted suggestions - I seem to have a very stable install without any significant issues.įor those interested, I installed to ProgramFiles (original SC4, then SC4 RH, then patch), configured the shortcut with the target extras of -intro:Off -CPUCount:1, run maximised and disabled visual themes. Watching with complete dismay the train wreck which is the latest Simcity release, I decided to see if I could get SC4 running. I've only recently retired XP and moved "up" to Win 7 SP1. * Note : Please post on here, if this has worked for you as well This fix is so simple, so extremely basic, I'm not sure why I have never seen it posted anywhere on the net on any site, perhaps this has already been covered, It is something so basic, I would be surprised if it hadn't already. This directory has free reign and does not require admin for changes,Īnyways the point of all this, is I have now clocked over 120 hours of game play, with over 200 plug-ins, and had absolutely not 1, crash. I simply installed it in C:\Program Files, note that it is not the (x86) directory. The problem people have with installing Simcity 4, rush hour or whichever, is they allow it to auto install in the C:\Program Files (x86) directory, as we know,Īny changes in this directory require admin authorisation, and for some reason it just does not work well with Simcity 4. So far out dated, considering it was released 12 years ago. I've tried pretty much all these and I still had problems, and I know of many players whom simply have held on dearly to the XP operating system, which is now Over time, I've read so many 'fix's' or attempted 'fix's' for installing and successfully running Simcity 4 on a windows 7 PC,įrom setting the affinity, or switching to compatibility mode, administrator, or windowed mode. Note: This is in reference to Windows 7 64 bit / 1 step instant guaranteed performance and running with absolutely ZERO CRASHES EVER!
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