New guy here! Couple of quick questions!

[nickc50310 0]

Hi everyone!  Well, Im sort of new but not really.  Been playing SC since it came out on SNES then played 2000, then 3000, and now 4!  I had 4 when it first came out on my Athlon 1700/Radeon 9700 pro system.  That thing crapped about a couple of years ago and I just got around to building a new machine.  I am now running a Athlon quad core 9500 with a Radeon HD4870 1GB.

The game works for the most part but I do have some questions/issues

First off- it doesnt work right with antisotropic filtering on.  It works but I cant see zones or roads as I buld them.  Also some things are missing.  The fireworks go off but are invisible, etc.  Works fine without the filtering.  Any ideas on this?  I have tried multiple drivers.

Secondly, this game is hella old and should run ultra smooth on my rig but doesnt.  it starts to bog a bit when my city gets big. (Im at 300,000).  Is there any tweaks or anything to improve this?  I have all the patches.  I am running at 1620x1080 full settings. 

 

[Retep Molinari 68]

I got a really nice PC with like 6 g or RAM and a quad processor, but at 300,000 the cities really start slowing up. This is much better, as in the past anything over 100,000 was problematic (though I once reached 1,100,000 on a large til

[nickc50310 0]

I googled this a bit and found some old stuff. One was a guy suggesting to people that they needed at least two gigs of RAM and then another guy telling him that was absurd! LMAO!

[tungston 19]

If the OS is Vista, you could run short of physical memory with only 1GB of memory. I have cities that will use up to 900MB of memory. It will depend on how many custom lots, and mods that are installed.

[Jezus53 18]

Also, I remember hearing that there is a problem using dual and quad core processors. Sim City (from what I have read) runs off of only one of the processors instead using the power of all two or four. So you maybe have 4 ghz quad core, but the game is only using one of the 1 ghz processors. Also, I really suggest 2 gb of RAM. With that much, the only problems you will have are unfixable. jk, but really, 2 gb really helps the game run faster and with better quality.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: nickc50310

Hi everyone!  Well, Im sort of new but not really.  Been playing SC since it came out on SNES then played 2000, then 3000, and now 4!  I had 4 when it first came out on my Athlon 1700/Radeon 9700 pro system.  That thing crapped about a couple of years ago and I just got around to building a new machine.  I am now running a Athlon quad core 9500 with a Radeon HD4870 1GB.

The game works for the most part but I do have some questions/issues

First off- it doesnt work right with antisotropic filtering on.  It works but I cant see zones or roads as I buld them.  Also some things are missing.  The fireworks go off but are invisible, etc.  Works fine without the filtering.  Any ideas on this?  I have tried multiple drivers.

Secondly, this game is hella old and should run ultra smooth on my rig but doesnt.  it starts to bog a bit when my city gets big. (Im at 300,000).  Is there any tweaks or anything to improve this?  I have all the patches.  I am running at 1620x1080 full settings.   quote>

Is that  1G on the vidio card or in the system?

Im thinking if you have 1 G one the vidio you must have more  system mem.

The game works fine on my system ( P4 3.0GHz  4G Ram ) I used to only have 2 and it ran fine too.

 

[tungston 19]

Originally posted by: Jezus53

Also, I remember hearing that there is a problem using dual and quad core processors. Sim City (from what I have read) runs off of only one of the processors instead using the power of all two or four. So you maybe have 4 ghz quad core, but the game is only using one of the 1 ghz processors. .......quote>

That rumor may have been started by someone that didn't use a multicore processor.  The game uses all cores on my Core2duo, and Core2quad, with no problems.  If there is a problem, it is not with the processor.

[Jezus53 18]

Originally posted by: tungston

Originally posted by: Jezus53

Also, I remember hearing that there is a problem using dual and quad core processors. Sim City (from what I have read) runs off of only one of the processors instead using the power of all two or four. So you maybe have 4 ghz quad core, but the game is only using one of the 1 ghz processors. .......quote>

That rumor may have been started by someone that didn't use a multicore processor.  The game uses all cores on my Core2duo, and Core2quad, with no problems.  If there is a problem, it is not with the processor.

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I see. Then I stand corrected! Thank you for that Tungston.

[nickc50310 0]

Oh, I wasnt saying I had that amount of RAM I was just stated that I had found that as it was quite funny. I have a 1GB Radeon HD4870 and 3GB system RAM on Vista Home premium. The game really does run pretty good I suppose. I am at nearly 500k people and it is not too bad. Is there any way to correct the anisotropic filetering issues?

Thanks all!!

[Randomtaskk 1]

Core i7 940 CPU, 12GB 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM, 2 GTX 260 OCX MaxCore 896Mb GFX Cards and mine still struggles with about 750,000 sims or more.

To me it seems to slow down a lot more if you use NAM + lots of different transport options (e.g. GLR, GHSR, ElRail, and Trains) all at once, in comparison to just NAM with roads/highways etc. which makes sense seen as it improves the pathfinding heuristics...

Anyone else notice that it seems proportional to the number of different networks utilised?