EtheB

I've only recently retired XP and moved "up" to Win 7 SP1. Watching with complete dismay the train wreck which is the latest Simcity release, I decided to see if I could get SC4 running. Thanks to those whom have posted suggestions - I seem to have a very stable install without any significant issues. For those interested, I installed to ProgramFiles (original SC4, then SC4 RH, then patch), configured the shortcut with the target extras of -intro:Off -CPUCount:1 , run maximised and disabled visual themes. I'm not running in any XP compatibility mode nor with Admin privileges selected. My card is an NVidia 9800GT with ver 314.07 drivers. Sound is the motherboard Realtek with ver 6.0.1.6662 drivers. Anti virus is ESET Nod32 6.0.314.0 set to gamer mode before executing SC4. This setting seems rather important else my system takes forever to actually get the game running. I've seen some strange graphic issues (such as multi colour EL train lines), but nothing major and from what I can tell they seem to be those glitches already being reported due to the NAM 31 mod - which I have to say is an amazing update! I have SC4 graphics set to run 32bit hardware and only use 1024x768. I get the odd glitch with audio - it sort of replays a few seconds, but nothing that really matters. Performance wise it seems to run at least as solid as it did with XP SP3.