Why is simcity 4 slow

If anyone has anything further to say to me on the issue, please email mods arstechnica. Anyway Twitch needs to mention what driver version he's using. I see they go up to 8. One can also try what Larchy suggested. I do happen to know Sim city 4: Rush Hour runs fine under Nvidia. I'll give it a try under ATI when I get a chance but as someone else mentioned his card just may be too old. I tried to play it about six months ago on a Geforce , and couldn't get it to run smoothly enough to play.

I assumed the newer drivers messed something up and gave up without much investigation. Peresonally, I just think that card is under powered. Maybe he should be looking at a 38xx? That's just my guess. Also, this thread makes it impossible to eat lunch without choking or otherwise endangering myself. I wouldn't say it's the gfx card being too slow tbh. SC4 is fairly ancient by today's standards and the DirectX7 engine was antiquated even when the game was first released.

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Why did they make a Rush Hour 4???? Supreme Commander 4? Originally posted by IceStorm: quote:. Originally posted by Ligushka: Supreme Commander 4? Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor. Originally posted by Grimlog: quote:. Details required :. Cancel Submit. LemP Volunteer Moderator. You're more likely to get a useful response in a gaming forum. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Set SC4 to use just one core of the processor, that might help.

I don't remember exactly how to do it, let me check around. I have a similar problem and similar specs on my computer, but I use an intel E The GPU is pretty much irrelevant for SC4 - it's only used for rendering effect props like the fireworks, smoke that comes from the smokestacks and similar.

Everything else is CPU-based. Please remember that SC4 is almost seven years old, and thus designed for hardware that is much slower than what we have today. Most rendering capabilities of modern GPUs cannot be used at all, and the main bottleneck for the game is the speed of your HD, since it has to reload the building models and the textures whenever you change the zoom or rotate the map. As long as your PC is busy with doing that, the game performance will be sluggish, even on the most current computers.

Good insight Andreas My hard drive is 10k RPM not the normal What speed does yours run? Last edited by Go Broncos!!! Just installed this also. Should not run as slow as my old computer I have an i with a gfx card. Your probly have to change your ingame setings look for the COG and I think option some where to change to software or hardware. Per page: 15 30 Date Posted: 10 Dec, am.