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Thought so, it works perfectly on my desktop with Vista-32 bit however...I haven't the money for Windows 7 atm...

Originally posted by: nycsc4 I live in St. Louis and its not so much the planning of the city and the planning of STLMetro, more the condition of the roads and the naming of streets in Downtown STL. If you are going by street names in Downtown St. Louis, they say it is the hardest city to get around in because not enough of our streets are numbered. Missouri has some of the worst roads in the country - luckly MODot (Missouri Dept. of Trans) got 1 billion dollars to fix them, so they are much better and the worst freeway in STL is getting torn out next spring, for a bigger better, brand new one. bout time. but as for capacity and usage, our freeways are pretty good. I-64/US-40 is the one getting torn out, and US-40 out in the county just got widened again. St. Louis City and STLMetro have a total of 7 freeways so that helps. (I-64 | I-70 | I-170 | I-270 | I-44 | I-55 | I-255)quote> I'm not sure if there was an update to this post in the past four years--but its November 2010, the I-64 project has since been completed (circa 2009, before schedule!)--its straighter, cleaner and any St. Louis resident should be proud that MoDot and its contractors completed construction before the scheduled deadline and without breaking the budget. Highways, and roads in general are integral to St. Louis, many cities I've driven through (most recently to the Jon Stewart Rally, I have Indianapolis in mind)--redirect their main byways around the city center...I think 70/65 actually splits in central Indy, I'm not positive. St. Louis is the crossroads not just for 70, but 55 going south, 64 going east, 70 west/east and 44 going southwest. Its a mess...and crossing the river from Illinois for someone unfamiliar with the area is confusing as heck, as critical turns all take place within 5 minutes of entering Missouri--at one point you have 44, 64 and 55 all within 2 exits of one another...and don't count on Illinois drivers letting you squeak by--they're worse than Jersey motorists But, I don't want to get hung up on Highways--I actually despise them but in St. Louis (and county) efficient transportation cannot be found unless you take the large freeways. Oh, but the question arises, if this last part is true, how come St. Louis only has a population of about 340k--its certainly no giant--why the extra highways? The county. St. Louis county is has about 1.1 million at last glance (wiki is out of date), certainly don't take my word at the exact but when people think of urban sprawl--look no further than St. Louis. In 1959, St. Louis city peaked at about 850k, thirty years later it would dip to about 240k. In that time, development in the county boomed--subdivisions, massive highway construction projects and a movement not just of people, but major economic movers from the central city to the fringe counties. St. Louis county has a reputation--the most municipalities in the nation (USA), 91 to be exact--individual governing units hover around 650. In some parts of mid-county, you'll drive through seven different 'towns' before reaching the next major intersection. Now, St. Louis county is beginning to dry up--where is everyone going? The next county over--St. Charles, one of the top 10 fastest growing counties in the nation. So what's the worst planning decision in St. Louis? Probably the initial 1876 declaration by city officals that the city, and county were officially divorced from one another. Annexation fever which has spawned massive cities in the southwest like Phoenix--not present in St. Louis where the city drew the line in the sand and in about 1940-1955 saw itself boxed into a corner with no place left to go--thus developers jumped onto the vast expanse of cheap flood plains out west... Planning and sustainability projects aren't really 'our thing' here in St. Louis...the county and city are politically aligned, but two very distinct populations inhabit the county and city. NIMBY is huge in the county, Metrolink (light rail) faced a steep battle trying to expand into the southwestern regions of the county, and the county seat itself--a project that was initially rejected 15 years ago (mostly due to very real and still existing racial tensions) took twice the amount of money when it was completed a few years back.... Overall however, for someone like me studying Public Policy Admin...its certainly an interesting place.

The thing is though, I don't remember this happening six or seven months ago--the last time I used this laptop. Its not an unfamiliar graphical bug, I've seen it before in older games like Railroad Tycoon 2 and C&C Red Alert 1. However, those were easy to fix by switching to 16bit, or a less intensive resolution--but if its a 64bit problem--this only adds to my dislike of said setup...the inability to play older games due to the 64bit Vista irks me to death.

Graphics are updated, and I'm running 64bit Vista... Interesting, I dual boot into Fedora 13 and I can get Sim City 4 to run via Wine--only for about 30 minutes, but still I don't see the same graphic blurs.

(insert line about exhausting search for similar posts) I recently dusted off this old laptop (Asus G50vt, Duo 2 core 4ggb, nvidia 9800 GS), and popped in Simcity 4 RH--I remember the last time I played there were some bugs, but mostly due to improper dependencies...brown boxes etc. Nothing like what I've witnessed tonight. For some reason the images aren't embedding, so here they are at imageshack: http://img694.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=fentoncountymar24071289.png Pictured are yellow lines which are the result of scrolling north (any direction for that matter) while paused, actually--the blurring happens regardless if there is a lined border--roads, houses, rivers--anything that forms a horizontal/vertical edge has a 75% chance of blurring when I scroll...when I zoom out or in, the picture is restored back to normal... Interestingly, at the second to furthest zoomed out distance no bluring takes place--but once more zoomed in, and the blurring begins--annoying because its the distance I prefer to build at. Secondly, every once and a while pockets of undeveloped zoning will appear in a strange--oval or oblong stain shape of solid color--no grid lines...this it seems would be a monitor issue--which scares me. Anyways, hopefully this is something that is familiar to the forum participants and can be answered away quickly.