liltee89

Hi to everyone, this is my first post but I'm an old user of SimTropolis and, of course, of SimCity 4. I want to share with you my problems and my fixes for the graphic performances on the newer systems. I've a Windos 8 x64 PC with an integrated AMD HD 3300 graphic chipset and an AMD HD 7790 graphic card. With this card, SimCity literally sucks... I've a "disappearing proprs+effects" when moving the visual and crappy performances. I've tried the fix in the first post of this thread but that not resolved so I've done the following (this is not a step-to-step guide, althought is detailed): 1) I've disabled the integrated graphic chipset via BIOS 2) I've modified Graphic Rules.sgr as follow 2a) After the string partialRule "Fast card" -any I've inserted the followings: stringMatch cardIdentity "AMD*HD 7700 Series" stringMatch cardIdentity "ATI*HD 7700 Series" stringMatch cardIdentity "AMD*HD 7700" stringMatch cardIdentity "ATI*HD 7700" 2b) After the string partialRule "SlowSubrectDepthCopy" -any I've deleted the following (to avoid my 7700 being recognised as the old ATI radeon 7x00): stringMatch cardIdentity "*7?00*" 2c) After the string partialRule "City Detail and Day/Night Settings" I've inserted the following: rule # Windows 8 stringMatch osVersion "Windows NT 6.2" rule "high computer power" atLeast memory 1000 atLeast cpuSpeed 2000 option $CityDetail $High option $DayNight $On option $BuildingLoaderSpeedGroup $High end rule "medium computer power" atLeast memory 600 atLeast cpuSpeed 1800 option $CityDetail $Medium option $DayNight $Off option $BuildingLoaderSpeedGroup $Medium end rule "low computer power" option $CityDetail $Low option $DayNight $Off option $BuildingLoaderSpeedGroup $Low end end 2d) After the string partialRule "Texture Quality and Building Variety Settings", I've inserted: rule # Windows 8 stringMatch osVersion "Windows NT 6.2" rule "high memory" atLeast memory 500 option $TextureQuality $High option $BuildingVarietyGroup $High end rule "medium memory" atLeast memory 300 option $TextureQuality $Medium option $BuildingVarietyGroup $Medium end rule "low memory" option $TextureQuality $Low option $BuildingVarietyGroup $Low end end 3) Finally, in the file Video Cards.sgr I've added: 3a) After the string vendor "ATI" 0x1002 I've added (after Radeon 9800) card 0x665C "Radeon HD 7700 Series" card 0x665C "AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series" card 0x665C "Radeon HD 7700" card 0x665C "AMD Radeon HD 7700" 3b) In the middle of the file (but not in a middle of a list of graphics card) I've inserted: vendor "AMD" 0x1002 card 0x665C "Radeon HD 7700 Series" card 0x665C "AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series" card 0x665C "Radeon HD 7700" card 0x665C "AMD Radeon HD 7700" end Now that's long process and not for the beginners but, for me it solved anything and now the performance are...are... BOOM! That means 500 milliseconds for going to zoom5! Building loading time reduced to zero and no lag! Hope this helps for the techincal guide you were talking about bye! EDIT: I also use these parameters on the SimCity.exe -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -f -d:DirectX -Cursors:fullcolor -Intro:off -CPUPriority:high -CPUCount:4

I cannot find the link to download the fix for the nightlight... where I can??