davepenman

Ok this AMD V INTEL crap is getting out of hand and sim city cannot multithread so don't brag about it if you have sim city running perfectly on a Quad core 3ghz. My idea is to compare pc's which could and could not run sim city without lag now if anyone would like to participate in the test e-mail me your system specs and when your pc starts to lag e.g. population when it starts lagging. Please do not lie if you get 3fps with a quad core just to make yourself feel better, no one cares about what how great your pc is, but what we do care is if we can identify the problem and find a fix for those who would be most grateful for the even if slight increase in performance, I for one would. Please participate and my e-mail address is djpenman@hotmail.co.uk. I am looking for the following information: CPU CLOCK BRAND (e.g. AMD Athlon64 4200 2.2ghz dual core) RAM CLOCK BRAND (e.g. Kingston DDR2 and how many sticks of ram you have such as two 1gb etc ) GPU MODEL AND CLOCK AND MEMORY IF POSSIBLE (e.g. NVIDIA 7950 400mhz core and 750 mhz VRAM SLI etc) Also if you know could you tell me your hdd specs such as rpm cache and size

Well was worth a suggestion lol, Why doesn't someone make a table of which pc's run SimCity 4 well and which don't, of course everyone would need an identical city which is very large so I suggest downloading a large one and everone who wants to be in the test would download this map and run it and run fraps to measure how many frames per second and make an average of how many they got, They would post their system specs and we would maybe find a trend and possibly what the problem is.

Ok shot in the dark but if you got a faster hard drive like a scsi or I-ram it would load incredibly faster and would be a dramatic increase in fps althought i'm not sayin it will the chances are high that it would becuase no matter how good some pc's are with quad core and dual core it may be the speed it is accesed I-ram which is several times faster than the fastest hard drive available would load Sim city extremely fast although is limited by its capacity of 4gb and the cost to buy 4gb of RAM and is volatile memory which means if it lost power it would lose data stored on it. It does come with a battery in case power is lost and data is still stored when the pc is on standby. Even if it isn't used for sim city windows xp boots instantly if it is stored on I-RAM. Search on youtube and you will find a video.