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I use Win 7 Ultimate x64 Edition, with 8 GB of RAM and run SC4RH fine. I was looking to see if there was a way to speed up SC4 as I have a quad core but it seem's that SC4 only ever uses 25% of the CPU regardless of how I setup my affinities. I did find a thread that shows command lines to add when launching SC4, got rid of that intro. Here it is: BTW, I'm still trying to find out how to set SC4 to use more than 25% CPU usage and so far nothing.... Command line parameters: run in a window, skip intro, use single CPU core, etc. From searching the Internet, I discovered that there are some command line toggles for SimCity that can be added to one's shortcut that starts SimCity. They are (in order of usefulness): -CPUCount:X (where X is the number of CPU cores to use) This is an important option on multi-core systems, especially if you are having crashing to desktop issues with Windows Vista or Win7. Setting to one core (-CPUCount:1) could resolve your issues. Also this can keep SimCity on one core while other processes use your other cores. This can be especially useful if you have dual monitors and want to run SimCity on one monitor while you do other stuff on your other monitor. -introff This will cause SimCity to skip the long and noisy intro sequence SimCity goes through every time it starts. I think after the twentieth of starting this game we know it is by Maxis a division of EA Arts. -w This causes SimCity to run as a window instead of full scree, which can allow one to quickly switch to other tasks. My advise when using this toggle is to make sure the task bar automatically hides itself or it will cover up part of the SimCity window as SC does not run as a complete resizable window as other Windows programs. -rXXXxYYYxBB Controls the resolution and color bit mode SC runs at. Valid values for XXXxYYY are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200. Valid choices for BB are either 16 or 32. This can be handy if SimCity won't start because you set its resolution too high. -CustomResolution:enabled Allows the use of Aspect ratios other than 4:3 to be used with the -r command above (e.g. 1360x768). -CPUPriority:low This sets SimCity's process priority to low, which is useful when used in conjunction with window mode and custom resolutions if you want to run SimCity while still being able to do other things on your computer. -UserDir:[path] (e.g. -UserDir:\SimCity\OtherRegions\) This is useful if you want to play different regions and have a shortcut that automatically takes you to the other regions. Basically you create an alternate regions folder and put the other region in this folder. If there are spaces in the file path you need to wrap the file path in quote marks. The trailing slash must be on the path name. -f switches SimCity back to full screen mode. I'm not sure of the purpose of this switch as SC starts in full screen mode normally. To use these switches you would modify the "Target" of you shortcut for SimCity as follows: Quote: "C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -w -introff -r800x600x16 Notice how the path to the SimCity executable is wrapped in quotes and the toggles are outside of the quotes. This is really important. __________________ Ken Barbalace - Mayor of SimCity Forum EnvironmentalChemistry.com (Environmental Careers, Blog, Periodic Table) InternetSAR.org: Volunteers Assisting Search and Rescue via the Internet My Firefox Theme Classic Compact: Based onFirefox's default theme but uses much less window space