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IMO - NK is just testing the waters, seeing what they can get away with. Both parties are going to probably work diligently to stay at a cease-fire. If war does come, NK will be fighting SK AND the USA (Since the USA helps enforce the South). Where China falls in i'm not sure but I doubt they want a piece of the pie. Both have nuclear arms and we all hope they won't get used. Two or three would destroy all of NK, the winds probably will carry the radioactive fallout into China... Talk about M.A.D. China is NK's ONLY ally and they don't seem to happy about it all... Time to start playing Fallout 3 & Fallout New Vegas and brush up on some survival skills!

Pentium 5 was known as the Pentium D and Pentium 6 was the Celeron. Pentium D was (I think) the first Intel Dual-Core processor known as Prescott and did suffer from major overheating issues. New quad cores like in the Core i series use a completely different scale for clock speeds since the FSB has been removed. You can get a i5 that runs at 2.3GHz to run faster than any Pentium 3.2GHz. But yeah like you I don't experience the memory leak issue after 5 hours.

Originally posted by: Ilikeseattle Also, the type of processor that runs Cities XL best is a pentium 6. The hyperthreaded processors cannot handle it.quote> Pentium 6? You mean Intel CELERON. Then the Core 2 Duos showed up and revolved into Core 2 Quad & Core 2 Quad Extreme; now revolved again to core i3/i5/i7. Only reminants of Pentium now are the Intel Atoms which are in nettops and netbooks, and Celeron 2. Hyperthreading has nothing to do with the game; all hyperthreading does is add an extra thread per core. So a regular Dual-Core processor sees 2 cores; a Dual-Core with hyperthreading sees 4 cores. ---- The game has a memory leak in it somewhere due to probably some small fault of which someone forgot to add a "break;" in the line or some newbie that doesn't know how to memory & error manage; and only utilizes one core since it would have taken a complete rebuild of the game's code (at which point some devs really start to question if they should either stop and sell the code or build a whole new game from it) I haven't hit 1 mill with any city yet but with 12GB RAM and an i7 I hardly see any lag except for when the game bumps thread 7 to 100% (of which I assign to it). I think the biggest thing asside from graphical errors and the issues mentioned above is the auto-save function. I hope the first official patch adds a slider in with the options panel to turn auto-save off-save every minutes and how many saves to keep. So: Auto-Save: [On] - Off Save Every: [30] Minutes Keep [2] Saves This way every 30 minutes the game will save, after i've played an hour it will auto-save again and keep the previous save; this way if the last save corrupts itself you have your backup of which was taken 30 minutes prior. Of course you should be able to adjust the intervals of saves and kept saves. If anyone wants a demonstration I am willing to create a mock-GUI for it.

I'm going to side with Pittsburgh for several reasons: A. My home city B. Steelers FTW C. Penguins FTW --- Transport is simple and doesn't cost much.At Carnegie Mellon University for example: Bus It Carnegie Mellon and the city's public transportation system, Port Authority Transit (PAT), have an agreement by which degree-eligible students may ride any PAT vehicle when you show a valid Carnegie Mellon ID card. There are numerous buses with stops in the Oakland area, and many of them stop right in front of Carnegie Mellon's campus. Bus schedules are available at the University Center Information Desk, or they can be found online on the Port Authority website. Bike It Bring your bike to campus. It's great exercise and there are plenty of free parking spaces (racks) available near class. And when you're ready for a break from hitting the books, there are loads of trails to ride throughout the city. Cab It It's not free, but many Carnegie Mellon students use a cab to travel to places like the South Side and the Strip District. People's Cab Co.; Yellow Cab Co.,; Port Authority Transit (PAT) Walk It There is plenty to do just outside of the Carnegie Mellon campus in Oakland, Shadyside and Squirrel Hill. The Carnegie Museum of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History are right down the street. Not to mention the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens that will make even a winter day look alive. Squirrel Hill and Shadyside shopping and eateries are within a 20-minute walk from campus. Zip It It's about as close as you can get to borrowing the family car. Zipcars are located on and around campus and in several other locations in Pittsburgh. To use them, you sign up for an account online and get a card. When you need to get somewhere, book a reservation for one of the Zipcars online and then use your card to unlock the doors during the reserved time. Rates include gas and insurance But yes the transit system lacks in comparason with Philly, but the architecture and pure history has it beat every which way. (First radio station was in Pittsburgh)

Originally posted by: ElGuito Hello all. Indeed it is slower than XL. I am running on the same exact machine and after "Click to Confirm..." this new XL 2011 takes up to 5 seconds, sometimes, before I know it took the click. As it is labeled XL 2011, you would expect for it to fully take advantage of a multiprocessor, multicore system running in 64bit mode on an operating system that can address many Gigabytes of memory, AND offload the graphics load to the GPU. Does not seem to be the case. As for the sales pitch of 200 new buildings and structures, well, I'll probably will never see them. Ok with me to have donated $20 to the new owners, I should have waited some more months and read reviews or tested it with someone else who upgraded. DOH! quote> The title got bought out by FHI after Monte Cristo went bankrupt on it. XL was incomplete as sold and FHI fixed some major issues with the game but there is all one can do in such a short span in time. Granted multi-core support would have been indeed nice but that would have required the entire code re-write of the game; 64-bit mode would address way more than 3.2GB of memory, but then again it would only be playabe on 64-bit machines leaving the 32-bit crowd in the cold (unless you coded two versions of the game one for each).

As said Yes SC4 works on Win7 and many still play it (new mods still rolling out!)

As said Yes SC4 works on Win7 and many still play it (new mods still rolling out!)

Originally posted by: Geodesic7 I like the look of this - how long can you use the demo version for and what restrictions are there with it?quote> The demo is free and has no time-limit. Only restrictions that I know of is you can not export your cities and the grid will not extend past 20km x 20km.

Originally posted by: Geodesic7 I like the look of this - how long can you use the demo version for and what restrictions are there with it?quote> The demo is free and has no time-limit. Only restrictions that I know of is you can not export your cities and the grid will not extend past 20km x 20km.

Lexxor, from that picture you'd need to click "Show processes from all users" to get everything the system is running. I notice you have 52 running at that time, that's nominal for modern computers but you said you have a Pentium 4 3GHz? I'd try to stay under 35 on a processor that old, but that's my preference. But once you've selected the "Show processes from all users" (Prozesse aller Benutzer anzeigen) You can run through them all with the Process Library (http://www.processlibrary.com). Type in the process and search and it will tell you what it is. If you kill a process by accident, all you must do to get it back is restart. If you don't want to see them again there is a little more advanced way you can do it by using the utility CCleaner or Window's System Config.

Originally posted by: gamur Ok, I talked with my friend in NY city, he made this computer for us, I mean, he searched and made this computer, he hasn`t bought it yet. Please tell me how will it run Cities XL 2011! Processor AMD3 2.9 Quad Core 4GB DDR3 RAM 1TB hard drive here comes the only thing that I think we should fix with him: 512 MB PCI Express video card please tell me what should I fix quote> Two questions: Exaclty what processor (I think he's reffering to the newer AM3+ socket quads) and what 512MB PCIe card? I'm an Intel fanboy so I'd say Core i5; but AMD is good for the money. As far as the videocard, (since its an AMD processor) I'd go with an AMD/ATI video card, sticking with the same brands on multiple equipment seems to work best (I'm on an EVGA Classified board with EVGA 4 series cards) as far as stability goes. If he changes you to an Intel setup, go with an nvidia based card. As far as models, on the AMD/ATI team i'd have to say the 5000 series - for nvidia a 260 will work just fine, but go for a 4 series if you can spend the extra money. Also to note, that 4th GB of RAM will put you on a 64bit Operating System if you want to use all 4GB. 32-bit systems have a limitation of 3.2-3.5GB and Windows will NOT use it all unless if its a 64-bit based system. (As far as compatibility issues go, I don't see many now-a-days but they do exist with older [1998 erra games] and some won't run properly but most kick into legacy mode and run in their own 32bit environment from your 64bit computer). Moose probably has a better way of explaining it to you though.

Yes your computer will run CXL 2011. Your GFX card will chew it like tissue paper, your C2D will battle it like a Tank vs Car and your memory will battle it like a swamp buggy. As said previously, your memory could use an upgrade to 4GB but its nothing to worry about right away. Now with 4GB of memory, Win7 Pro 32bit will not use all 4GB, it will use 3.25-3.5GB; this is a 32-bit memory addressing issue and not an issue with your computer. A work-around is to install a 64bit version of Windows. 64bit will enable you to use 4GB+ memory with no problem.

Originally posted by: simmaster07 @Ant1-B0dy: Is that to suggest that Windows 7 will have no registry issues? They will happen nevertheless, for example, installation and uninstallation errors. As a matter of fact, my other Win7 box has 615 registry errors.quote> Not at all. I'm saying Win7 has a much more stable registry system. Why can't anyone read? At the most i've had about 40 registry errors on Win7 x64 within 2-3 weeks. On my work computers with WinXP SP3 they daily run a few hundred depending on what's used.

Originally posted by: joshriddle I wouldn't bother downloading anything else then Registry Mechanic when it comes to the stuff that Windows provides for you for maintenance. Actually the bloat Microsoft sometimes puts on their OSs is a good thing. Defrager is a lifesaver. Oh and don't bother with cleaning the registry? Registry Mechanic is extrememly sensitive to the tiniest unnoticeable issues, and repairing them can help greatly. Did you know that for each file you open in MS Paint, after you save it it turns up as a problem? That said, registry cleaners IMP are necessary for any Windows platform. quote> Did you even read what I posted? Win7 has an efficient registry system, as a result little performance improvement comes from running CCleaner's registry cleanup. RegMechanic is a good utility but its used for cleaning out the registry, not temp files, DNS cache, cookies, history, error reporting, ect... nor does RegMechanic have the ability to delete startup entries, restore points, or even secure deletion. Defragging is good and if you actually read what I had posted, I never said Defragging your drive was bad. I use PerfectDisk which is a lot more advanced than the Windows built in Defrag program.

On Topic: Assign the program to one core and high priority and you'll see better improvement in your gameplay. As for drive issues I recommend the program CCleaner; it removes temp files, bad registry errors, flushes your DNS cache and improves system performance overall. If you're on Win7 don't bother with the Registry Cleaner part! Off Topic: You can think of a flash drive like an SSD. I remember when Intel and OCZ started pushing them to the market; $1,100USD for 80GB! I also read up upon a comparison between an SSD and HDD and the SSD doesn't affect system battery life as much as expected, and SSDs are only good for one program at a time, if you open more than 1 program the speed drops considerably. If you're going to get an SSD, get it for your O/S and use a 2TB drive for storage (don't bother with anything larger than 2TB unless you're comfortable with a JBOD, multiple RAIDs or have an EFI processor [intel Xeon] as Windows won't recognize any more than 2TB)