Texture Issues on Windows 8

[Stevphfeniey 35]

Hello, kids. I recently got myself a new laptop equipped with Windows 8 and decided to get back into SimCity 4 after several years without. So I installed the game and decided to take it for a test drive, setting up a very basic city when this happened:

Already not good, as you can see the base texture for the Wind Powerplant is missing (This is also true for ploppable landmarks that I tested out) along with the moving windmill parts themselves. But I pressed on and zoned some basic lots when:

Yeah. So I'm curious if any of the kind, more technologically literate folk here on ST can be of assistance to me.

Oh, and I'm running this on a Dell Inspiron 17R with:

Intel Core i5 @ 2.5 GHz

6GB of RAM

Intel HD Graphics 4000

Hope that the information I've provided is satisfactory and I hope to hear back from somebody soon.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Have you got your graphics rendering set to high? After installing any of the update patches, everything gets set to low.

What is your version number from the SimCity4.exe file? (Find it with windows explorer in Program Files)

Grandpa (too old to be a kid).

[Cefien 361]

it is either graphic issue or the game graphic simply not set to normal or high. the game version should be the clear answer.

well, since he called us kids here, i assume tha.......wait a sec wow, nonny, i mean mr.nonny, i never thought that you are......never mind, i should've respect you more, sir.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

it is either graphic issue or the game graphic simply not set to normal or high. the game version should be the clear answer.

well, since he called us kids here, i assume tha.......wait a sec wow, nonny, i mean mr.nonny, i never thought that you are......never mind, i should've respect you more, sir.

Cool it, man. I'm just one of the guys. I refrain from referring to you as children.

[Cefien 361]

Cool it, man. I'm just one of the guys. I refrain from referring to you as children.

No, no it's fine, it's not about some guys or something...i mean, i still have a grandpa, and i respect and love him...that's why i said about respecting you more, sir.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I am going to show this to my grand kids. They will have a nice chuckle. Only I have to wait for them to get old enough to understand.