System requirements, platforms, and languages (SC4)

Contributor/author(s): Wren Weburg

Currently, only a PC-CD (Windows) version of SimCity 4 is available (spanning 2 CDs). A Macintosh version is planned for release by Aspyr.

Operating systems

• Windows 98/Me/2000/XP officially supported, NT4SP6 and Windows 95 possibly compatible.
• Mac OS X, version 10.2 or later (not yet released)

Hardware

• Minimum (PC) 500 MHz Pentium III/AMD Athlon
  128 MB RAM
  8X CD/DVD
  1 GB Free hard disk (plus space to store your prized cities)
  DirectX 8.1
  16 MB video card supporting DirectX 7
  Sound card supporting DirectX 7
  Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)

  Recommended (PC)
  1 GHz Pentium III/AMD Athlon
  256 to 512 MB RAM
  Supported 3D-accelerated Direct3D video card (SimCity 4 uses 3D acceleration) with 32 MB video RAM. Supported 3D chipsets: GeForce 4/3/2/256, TNT/2, Radeon 9700/9000/8500/7500/7200/7000, Matrox Parhelia/G550/G450/G400.

  Macintosh
  Power Mac G3/G4, iMac G4/eMac, PowerBook G4 (DVI model or better), iBook (32MB VRAM model only)
  500 MHz or faster
  256 MB RAM
  1 GB of free hard disk space available
  Hardware 3D acceleration required: ATI Radeon or NVidia GeForce card (32 MB VRAM or better)

Languages

• English
  French
  German
  Dutch
  Italian
  Spanish
  Swedish
  Danish
  Finnish
  Polish
  Portuguese
  Norwegian
  Korean
  Thai
  Traditional Chinese
  Simplified Chinese
  Japanese

See also
Release date
Notes about Minimum System Requirements