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Hey Guys, I was a SC4-Player for years and decided to re-buy it on steam today. I always liked the game "as it is", but maybe you can give me a few hints of essential mods i can try. The only annoying thing I remember was that cities with 1Million+ population are not playable anymore (massive lags, no matte on what PC). Is this fixed in the "new" steam-version? Maybe there is something like a "texture-pack" that adds additional Houses? Would be nice to see that. For starters, I downloaded NAM - will try out how well this works. P.S. I am on a Mac. Is that bad?

It was german native. Thanks for the advice for Deathtopumpkins, i will try to contact him. I dont know if clean installing brings sth. different, though i installed it clean on a fresh system and played a few times before without plugins or sth. else. GPU: If you mean it is too weak... i don't believe that. The game is from 2003 !!! and not even in 3D or sth. I think, even with a Geforce 5xxx (3 Generations earlier), it should work very fine, or not?

Hi, that's a good motto :-) Specs: When i run SC4, it runs: Daemon-Tools 4.30.2. That's all. Okay, Bluetooth, wLAN and the normal default System components. But no extra-program. My NB is VERY clean. Property of my shortcut: -CustomResolution:enabled -r1680x1050x32 -f -introff Installed on: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Installed plugins: - Zone Qadroubler (or sth.) - Moolah-Cheat-plugin both in Program files(x86) bla bla plugins folder - Traffic addon is in my user files folder (installed through installer) Installed is: Original SC4 "Deluxe" (SC4 + Rush hour), which i bought for 10EUR a while ago. I can remember that SC4 was also so slow when i had Vista 32bit and only the cheat plugin installed.

Hey DocRorlach, thanks for your advice! Your posted settings are the default settings which are loaded for SC4.0 in the nvidia-Driver on my computer. So the default does not work with me ^^ i experimentally turned AERO off (even though my GPU has 512mb dedicated ram), but it had also no effect on the game :-(

My Plugins-folder is nearly empty. About 20megs or sth. What means "experiment" with my driver? Has nobody done that experiment before and nobody played sc4 with nvidia before?

I tried both tricks: - Setting SC4 permanently to "high": This makes no effect to me. - Giving SC4 the advice that only ONE CPU can be used: Makes the game slower. - Playing in Software-Mode: The game works much faster. I can play it without problems, BUT: The game looks much more *****ty! Many effect r not available no more, and i cant even see any cars or trains! This is very annoying, too :-( What i recognized is: In software Mode, the game makes no difference between a city w/ 70k or 1000k city. It always runs the same fast/slow. So i think it exists NO resolution.

Hey Guise, I have a 1/2 YO Laptop, with the following configuration: 4GB RAM GF FX 8600 GS, 179xxx Driver 2x 2.2ghz T7500, 4MB L2-Cache Running Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1. Now my problem: When my city reaches approx. 50.000 citizens, it starts to buck. I dunno whats the problem, the game is from 2003, and my high-End Laptop is end 2007. Maybe you have any hints for this problem?