Little black boxes (graphic problem)

[arose4lee 0]

Hi there, I'm a recent MacBook Pro convert and at the same time, I purchased SC4 Deluxe thinking it would work w/out any problems. How naive of me. Anyway, all the houses, trees, cars etc are in these little black boxes. I've downloaded the new update/patch thingy, but have no idea how to install it (I've saved it into the main SC4 folder). Would someone be kind enough to give me suggestions on how I might 1) install this patch thingy and 2) fix the graphics problem I am having? I really love this game (I have a PC version which I play) but it's frustrating the hell out of me. I'd like to be able to play this game on my MBP!

[Grafdude 0]

You need this patch to fix your graphic problem, because the original simcity 4 mac CD is for mac's with PPC processors, not intel. The patch adds support for intel macs. I had this problem and installing the patch fixed it.

What you need to do is install simcity 4 on your macintosh hard drive or you wont be able to apply the patch (seems to me your running simcity directly from the cd or the .dmg file). Another alternative is installing windows boot camp, I'm running simcity on my macbook pro in windows xp and the performance is much much better than in OS X, plus the game has much fewer glitches than the mac version.