Poor performance on good laptop

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Hello,

I have strange performance issue with SC4. I have laptop with GF 8600GT and 2.4GHZ C2D 3GB RAM. Most games get very good performance but not SC4. When in hardware rendering mode, the game laggs unbelievebly as for such strong machine. Saveing takes ages . Surpisingly when I switch to software mode the game works much better and saveing times are normal, but in big cities the CPU has problems with rendernig andl sometimes lags. I'd like to force the game to run on hardware accelertion thad does nt cause lagging.. Does setting non default resolution by command line parameter (1280 x 800 instead of those availabele in game configuration menu), has sth to do with it ?

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Anyone ?

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Well, I have my simcity set at that resolution, but did not notice a big difference in speed by switching back to 1024x768 or 800x600. Mine works fine on my Dell E1505 with 1.7 GHZ Core Duo and 2GB RAM. You also might want to try reinstalling the game. Also, you may want to download Task Assign and Prio.  Task assign assigns programs to a certain CPU. Simcity 4 doesn't support multiple CPU's so it may go faster by assigning it only to one. Prio can save and change the priority of a task so it can use more memory, which I have my game at Realtime or Very high. I think Prio may also keep the affinity setting, but haven't observed enough to be sure. I hope that helps!