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Yet though i have a pentium3 866MHz 265 MB of memory with 4096 MB of pagefile on F:\ and i use the on board 810E video card on my 1999 gigabyte GA6wmmc7-1 motherboard with latest drivers and its playable until it reaches a population of 70,000-90,000 then the fps plummets to down to unplayable but will it work on my video upgrade in the next few months to a XFX GeForce 5200 PCI with 256MB of memory with latest drivers and i hope that don't have to go through what you people are suffering. But i can run a resource hungry games on here with no problem like unreal tournament 2004 demo 30-35 fps still and 25 moving with everything on medium except it takes ages to load to the map but not bad for on board eh even unreal tournament game of the year edition almost 50 even in full movement with the chain gun showering the map with bullets and the settings are on high screen resolution 1024x 786 32bit colour setting on its no problem just churning alone nicely. But it runs like a rocket on my 2006 technical college computers and they where a 2.4GHz with 512MB of memory and running on board ati card nice 70-80 fps with everything on max. Later all MUNCHER_202

The game worked half a year ago. After that I got a virus, which is not removed, but game performance was never restored quote> Bingo i worked out your problem its that darn virus in your system its causing all these access violations in the memory if you can get it removed some how your game will return to full performance with no side effects i just need the name of the virus like Win32.Name of virus like that or it could be a trojan causing all the problems.So if you can get the name of the virus and ill search for it on symantec virus database on their site and work out a way of removal. Later MUNCHER_202

Originally posted by: fastica Forget about overclocking, and is not your HDD or memory, I have the same problem with my ATI X1900XTX. When I run Simcity with the Catalyst vesion that comes in the graphic card CD (I think is the Cat 6.1) the game runs smooth as silk, but after updating to a later Catalyst version it becomes almost unplayable. I emailed to ATI tech support without success. I think this is more Maxis fault than ATI's fault (99% of my games runs flawlessly, excep SC). The best solution for now is to play the game in software mode -----quote> Hi welcome to simtropolis forums Now what version is the latest catalyst drivers for your card because SC seems to have some issues with todays newest cards but have you disabled the anti-aliasing and these sort of settings in your card if you have not disable them SC hates these settings enabled. Hope that helps Later MUNCHER_202

By the looks yo it you will need more memory and what is your system specs so i can work it out even further and have you got all the video card's settings on even the advanced ones but i cant think of what they are that simcity4 does not support and it spits the dummy when it detects them enabled so try to turn off anti-aliasing those sort of settings and it will hopefully work if not well i don't even have a clue what the hell is going on. Later MUNCHER_202

Originally posted by: xiziz Actually, sc4 hardly even needs a graphicscard, ive played sc4 on a Geforce 2 GTS-400 on my system and it preforms nearly as well as with my ATI X850 XT. Big things in sc4 are the Processor and Memory. Ive got a A64 3000+ overclocked by about 25% and sc4 lags as soon as i get to much stuff, and ive also got 2gb of high preformance memory.quote> Please my on board video card can handle it well until i get a big city going around the 70,000 mark it starts too seriously slow down even on low graphic settings and i am running it on a 6 year old machine with 256mb of memory and a p3 866 but when i can get $15,000 Australian raked up then ill build a machine that will make yours look like a piece of crap but mine with 6GB of memory made up of 3 2GB sticks quad sli certified with two nVidia GeForce 8800 gtx in sli mode then tell me it don't need a video card to run all that power it will fly no lagg at all just smooth as silk performance. <EDIT> so thats why it laggs for because it on a overclocked amd piece of crap even with crappy 2GB of high performance memory ill tell you one thing return the piece of crap to its stock speed and leave it there it will run better because the cpu is not running as hard and it will lose all the so called lag in the game.<EDIT> Later MUNCHER_202

My worst city had 70000 people in it and thats when my traffic got out of control and the pollution grew really big even with the clean air ordiance on but that did not help so i deleted my city and restarted it but my education and health did not take effect till the first year passed and every house were just shacks commerce was dull and the industrial was just a bunch of black buildings so what is wrong and i had to reinstall it because a modification corrupted one of the DAT files when i reinstalled it was just perfect until i put just a single modification in the plugin folder and that was the $25,000,000 one and when i restarted a new city thats when the education and health sucked even with the large medical center and every educational building at the start and the police and fire was all over it and had a heap of parks but it still did not develop but the demand was at zero just with a minimal of Residential Commercial and industrial zoned so i just forgot about it and left the game alone till i can work out how to fix this really annoying problem. Any answers please tell me.