Ryden123

Hey guys, i just recently started getting out some of the older games, i found sim city 4 deluxe edition and installed it, and update it. First thing i noticed was on the region view, scolling is sluggish, no matter how i scroll. I clicked on one of the cities and the game runs so slow, its impossible to play. Ive mucked about with the settings but nothing changes. The rig im running should be able to handle this game; Windows xp sp2 amd duel core 3800+ 2g ram radeon x1900 xtx I recently updated direct x but that did nothing. I have the latest drivers for my video and audio too. Any help would be appreciated.

Yeah, ive been playing it in software mode, alot better than hardware mode. Its a shame though cause i can notice the differences. Im gonna look about on more forums to see if anyone else has the same problem as me.

Yeah, i always have them set to application seleceted. Otherwise it causes problems, ive always set it to application settings. Im concluding that it must be the ati drivers, as ive been reading about that they dont seem to work with sc4. I guess im going to have to give this game a skip which is a shame because i really miss playing it.

Setting the affinity for simcity4.exe to use 1 processor did absolutely nothing for me. And im using 32 bit Windows xp.

I have exactly the same problem, and im running a radeon x1900xtx aswell lol, the game runs so slow its unplayable ...

I did what you said, making it run from 1 processor didnt seem to affect gameplay. Although increasing my page file did, although it still lags really bad, i noticed that software mode runs better than hardware mode, which dosnt make much sence to me. *edit* Just a note, This is the only game that has this problem. I am running brand new games flawlessly (i am a gamer). Ive been mucking about with compatibility modes and cannot solve this. This is really getting on my nerves lol. **edit** Nope, no matter what i do, i cant get this to run properly. I just then started a new city, to just see how it went starting from scratch, and from there its still so laggy its unplayable. I dont understand how this can be >_<.