DirectX 11 v.s. SimCity 4

[Cougar2004 127]

I just installed the new DirectX 11.0 (which comes default with Windows 7) on to my Vista SP2. 

My biggest fear was that it might break something like an older program such as SimCity 4, but it works perfectly. 

No ones hardware is likely built for DirectX 11 yet, but online people say that there are benefits with the DirectX 11 even without DirectX 11 specific hardware.  I don't remember what those are, and my SC4 probably doesn't play any differently, but in initial testing it seems that I can't find those annoying places in my medium and large cities where the automata cuts out and ghosts.  Maybe the new update is helping.  Either way, I just thought id open a thread on the general topic so people know about the option.  Theres bound to be someone interested.

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

i too have not seen any issue with 7 like i did in vista.... 7 seems to have corrected many issue that conflicted with sc4... i know they didn't make the corrections for sc4, but the corrections they did make benefited us tremendously

[bluemoose 223]

7 does indeed seem snappier, but i also started using datpacker, so that could be it...

I dont see how new software would mess up older software, but i do think it could make graphics snappier, maybe not better, but faster

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[ScaryMonkey 0]

That's a relief, I sometimes worry about newer OSs breaking SC4... remember when you had to get a new system every time they came out with a new SimCity? I wonder if it'll ever get to the point where you need to keep an old box around to play it instead