Information on Windows 8

[X-Man_from_Althuette 3]

Hey Guys,

just an information for all who have been wondering whether Sim City 4 is running on Windows 8.

I have some good and some bad news.

The good news: Yes, the game runs on Windows 8

The bad news (but maybe not everybody affected): I could only run in windowed mode when graphics-mode was set to hardware (maybe other graphics hardware or a future update of the driver or Windows is solving this problem, Software-Mode worked)

Computer Specs:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 6420: 2 x 2,13 GHz

2 GB System Memory (RAM) DDR2

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT (DirectX 10 Support) 512 MB DDR2

NVIDIA Driver Version 296.17, DirectX Runtime Version 11

OS: Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Build 8250) 64-bit

Note: All plugins worked (At least they were loaded)

For further information contact me by PN or write an answer in this topic.

Greetings from South Germany

X-Man

[Follarch 326]

Oh wow Windows 8 is out already?? I thought it'd be a bit longer. How does everything look? D: Is it more different from Win7 or not so much?

Great to know simcity can still work! I always play in Windowed with hardware rendering anyway.

[jdenm8 362]

Windows 8 is out in a Beta sense so most of its features in flux. I did have the... displeasure of using Windows 8 Developer Preview and I must say... I think it'll be the second version of Windows that I actively avoid after Vista.

I really seriously disagree with several of the things that Microsoft is doing with it. It's not just the "Microsoft Marketplace Only" thing either, though that is a massive part of it.

If I get a new PC and can't get Win7, I will seriously look into Linux or load one of the many XP licenses I've accumulated over the years.

  Edited April 13, 2012 by jdenm8  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

From the hype that preceded the beta release, I was thinking that Microsoft has done it again. Seems when they get a solid release like Windows 7 they then stumble around for a few years before they get another good one. Look at the record:

Windows 98 was pretty good.

XP eventually followed

Windows 7 seems to be solid, but I've never run it.

Since DOS 6.0, have they ever really had a good version of the O/S that didn't do scary things like BSODs?

One of the problems I have with them that was on XP was the idea of "virtualizing" a program every time it was called. That is, they built page tables for each launch unless the old ones were still in the cache. Could have done it once and for all and saved it, compressing the old image.

  Edited April 13, 2012 by A Nonny Moose  

[jdenm8 362]

XP was released back in 2001 and I dare say that PCs back then couldn't afford the HDD usage. They only averaged around 20GB, and XP ate up 1.5GB of that. It was probably more efficient in the long run to regenerate it at runtime than store it.

I've also noticed a similar wave to what you mention.

3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7.

I imagine 8 will be a continuation.

  Edited April 13, 2012 by jdenm8  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well then, I guess we'll have to wait for Windows 9, should they survive that long.