New Graphics Card

[patpatty45 17]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a graphics card that would be able to run simcity on High that is no more then 100 dollars? I really want to play the game with great graphics but my card is pretty old. Everything else on my computer is fine, its my graphic card.

[fotten 1]

maybe a 560ti? prolly somewhere around $100 - $150.

 

tho be careful, that gpu could put a bootleneck from the lower grade cpu.

 

Game runs flawlessly on my i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz, 16gig mem, 570 phantom for reference.

[patpatty45 17]

how will a Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 run????

[McGilligan 8]

Ran it with GTX460 at max everything with no frame drops. That GPU goes for less than $100 on ebay. It's amazing how long this card has lasted me. Games really are not pushing it these days...6670 should be OK too, maybe not ultra everything.

[ZrC 3]

how will a Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 run????

A 6670 will run the game perfectly fine.

[dustinjjackson 8]

How will a AMD Radeon HD 7660G discrete-class run with the game? This is the graphics card in my new laptop i bought last night

[ZrC 3]

How will a AMD Radeon HD 7660G discrete-class run with the game? This is the graphics card in my new laptop i bought last night

It will play fine with mid-high graphics settings. Keep in mind shadows and AA will drag the frame rate down in larger cities.

[ZeBull00 0]

how will a Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 run????

A 6670 will run the game perfectly fine.

 

 

Just an FYI - I have this exact card, and during the beta, I had several issues with certain graphics displaying. I was unable to see city boundaries, road guides, data layers flowing (electric, water, sewage), could not visually see any disasters, etc...

 

This was a reported bug by many ATI card users, so hopefully this gets fixed before the launch. 

[ZrC 3]

 

how will a Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 run????

A 6670 will run the game perfectly fine.

 

 

Just an FYI - I have this exact card, and during the beta, I had several issues with certain graphics displaying. I was unable to see city boundaries, road guides, data layers flowing (electric, water, sewage), could not visually see any disasters, etc...

 

This was a reported bug by many ATI card users, so hopefully this gets fixed before the launch. 

I have also tried the beta on an AMD APU along with a 6650M without issues. Have you updated your display drivers?

 

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

[ZeBull00 0]

Yeah, the frustrating part is I just got the card 2 weeks ago. Updated the drivers when I first installed it. When I tried to update the driver after playing one session of the beta, it said I have the most current version. 

 

I believe all my specs should be more than enough to run the game properly.

 

Window 7 -64 bit

i5 processor

8.0 gb ram

Radeon HD 6670 - 2gb ddr3

[SimCity4IE 202]

What's more important is the speed of your CPU. You can have the most powerful graphics card possible, but it's meaningless in most circumstances for SimCity 4 since the game which game out in 2003 doesn't utilize the full power of a non-integrated GPU. Get an average graphics card and a CPU that can be clocked to >4GHz for smooth playing