Graphical Scrolling Problems

[Mattoman 0]

When i scroll around the map, many of my skirise and construction frams dissapear as i scroll

then reappear as i stop and move to ajust. Ive tried lowering some graphic options but nohting. How can i fix ths?

[wouanagaine 83]

there is a line about that in the faq at simcity.ea.com website

[Mattoman 0]

Didnt really help but thanks anyway

[wouanagaine 83]

did you mean that this is not exactly what you were discribing ?

Disappearing Buildings When Scrolling

Many cards (including the ATI Radeons) lack support for a backing store, which SimCity 4 utilizes. For those cards, SimCity 4 is forced to disable the rendering of many of the view objects (like buildings) during scroll. This is intentional to ensure responsiveness while scrolling. You can enable the rendering of all objects by editing your "Graphics Rules.sgr" which is found in the Sim City 4 directory installed to your hard drive. With any text editor go into this file and change the following property from true to false:

property noPartialBackingStoreCopies false

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or do you mean that line does not change anything ?

[Mattoman 0]

I didnt try but my graphics card is a Gefore MX 440 so im lucky im even running the game.

[prince_of_sims 0]

In that case, this is normal. This is how SC4 compensates for low-end graphics cards. It makes the buildings etc disappear and then reappear once scrolling is done.