captivatedlady

I only pay attention to the date sometimes depends on if I planting seasonal trees, if I not planting then i usually dont even notice it.

Good deal, one quick question with Windows 7. Should i tell the compatibility to run game as win xp or does that even matter?

Can pick up a killer barebones desktop computer for cheap at tigerdirect but the one I looking at has an AMD 8 cores somehow I dont think shutting down 7 cores to play the game would be very easy lol. But on the plus side can drop in 16gigs of ram and a SSD and a nice graphics card or two. Then even if load times are still boggy at least it will look good. Hope to get enough money for Christmas to order one

Well it probably just the age of both laptops, they aren't the 15lb briefcase laptops but they are both 4 plus years old. The automata not appearing happened just within the past week or two. They quit updating some of the drivers two years before I got them. I did recheck that all my drivers were the latest and workin, but still no automata. Guess I will goto a pawnshop and pick-up someones old desktop for cheap. lol

Ok thanks for answers, as for disk maintenance, I run the enhanced version of CCleaner, Glary Utilities, Eusing cleaner and registry and Auslogics disk defrag, after I Dat Pack then i do the optimize feature of Auslogic Defrag. When game is actually playing then i get respectable numbers on cpu and mem usage. High 80's low 90's on cpu and mem rates are in-line to what the integrated graphics can handle. I was mostly hoping that someone had the Holy Grail of fast loading speeds again thanx

Ok first with all maxis patches/updates and mods 805MB, was more but have weeded out a considerable amount. However loading SC4 i have a program that shows me use of cpu and mem mem is barely being used and cpu is super low sometimes topping out at 3-4%. That is in loading the game with all extra(unneeded processes) shut off or disabled. So it usually takes 20-30 minutes just to load the game, is there any way possible to speed this up beyond emptying my plugin folder? I have same problem on both computers ones a intel base the other is Amd base. Secondly, I have no traffic not even with things like bus stops and police stations with automata. If I go to Data View Traffic I can 'see' where traffic is going although in city view I dont have any traffic even at closest view. Thats only a problem with the Dell (Intel base). Thirdly, on both systems I have to use save game then switch to region w/o save. If i switch to region w/save or exit game w/save it automatically CTD's every time. Fixable? Ok Stats SC4 Deluxe (cd's) both laptops Dell Inspiron 1545 Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3400 2.16 GHz 2.17 GHz 3 gb ram Vista Home Premium 32 bit Acer Aspire 5100 AMD Turion 64 X2 (cant remember GHz'z offhand) 2 gb ram Windows 7 home premium 32bit of course being laptops besides adding memory cant do much else such as video cards so the dell uses Intel GMA 43 integrated and acer uses ATI X1100 integrated. Also have the game using one core as listed elsewhere in Simtropolis. Ok this was long-winded but I do have tendency to overtalk (even when typing)

LMFAO TFF

Yeah the single player but also the regions, so you can build that super duper megalopolis spanning 12 tiles lol.