tavernfly

Was feeling nostalgic and purchased SC4 on Steam recently, but I cannot get it to load using DirectX on my system. Game tries to start, screen goes black, and a second later crashes to Desktop. I've tried running the game with OpenGL, and successfully made it to Region View with no issues, leading me to believe the crash is a DirectX problem. (I don't know much about OpenGL, but it can't display the game properly for me once a city tile is loaded. Get extreme game-breaking graphical issues beyond trailing/tearing.) System Info: - Windows 7 Professional - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (16Gb VRAM, latest drivers) - Intel Core i7-8700K - 32Gb RAM Game Info: - SimCity 4 Deluxe purchased through Steam - NAM 42 with 4GB patch installed - Launch options I'm currently attempting to run the game with: I was going to try following the steps in this post: "How to configure SC4 to work with your new hardware", but it seems NVIDIA GeForce is already on the "Fast card" list in Graphics Rules.sgr (although it's written as "NVidia Geforce," dunno if that's case sensitive) ...and I was unable to find a hex code (like "0x9442") for my GPU under System Information or Properties, to add to the Video Cards.sgr list. At this point, is there anything else I can try besides using a Wrapper? EDIT: Still crashing on startup the same way with DDrawCompat installed (tried multiple versions, installed correctly to the Apps folder)... Also tried trimming down launch options to just -CPUCount:1 and -intro:off... I'm at a loss, at this point.