Lexxor

I defragmented the HD and finished some processes. I don't know what I can finish and what I cannot without messing with my computer, so maybe you could help me here: http://img526.imageshack.us/i/unbenanntjit.jpg/ I remember creating a 2 million habitant city on a lesser computer some years ago, and I don't recall having such problems.

Originally posted by: SC4BOY It also sounds as though you may have things running in the background.. do you?quote> No. I mean, I run Norton 360, but this doesn't really count, does it? Originally posted by: SC4BOY That said, it is true that SC4 is not a "flowing" game.. it is not a continuous stream of the program running.. instead there are a number of programs that pop in and out like the destination algorithms, the "find a path" algorithms, the various population and reward programs, etc.. When these are running it will significantly slow the game's "time" progress. Another thing you can do to minimize this as suggested by lucoflax is to not be scanning around the map constantly.. that takes a lot of computing power... give it plenty of time to "catch up" with its business before you start zooming and scrolling again.quote> That's what I feared. Yep, I usually do what Luxoflax suggests, but sometimes it'll just take too long and it bores me like hell. I just wondered if there was something I could do to get around this, but oh well... :/

Hi there, I'm playing Simcity 4 Rush Hour with the sku 2 update downloaded from EA's site. My system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 4 GB RAM DDR2, HD4890 1GB, Pentium 4 3GHz (yep, it's quite old). I run the game on hardware mode, and all visual settings are on Medium. I don't know if I could make myself clear on the topic title, but my problem is the following: I'm building a city on a large map, and right now it has about 1 million habitants, 450 thousand commercial jobs and 40 thousand or so industrial jobs, and there's still one fourth of the map available for growth. My International Airport has just been upgraded to medium size, the seaport has been upgraded twice and so on. It's been hard to make it grow even more, but not because of money, of disasters or whatever. I can't make progress because the time refuses to go forward. No matter whether I put it on speed 1, speed 2 or speed 3, the time remains "frozen", as if the game was on pause. Sometimes it advances a couple of days, and then it freezes again. Right after I load the city to begin playing, however, the game advances 3 or 4 months (on speed 3), but then it stops. There's no lagging at all, and it happens only when I play a large map - on medium and small sized maps, the game runs just fine. Is there anything I could do to solve this?