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what yall think about this movie the sims? will it be a flop or not.
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Hello: I hope to put it well in the right forum. I have changed PC. I have copied the SimCity 4 folders from one PC to another. When opening in the new one, it asks me that there is no ms-gaming overlay. Instead, the Lot Editor opens it normally. What I can do? Greetings and thanks. Spain.
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Cori and CB, I hope you will allow this to remain as there is an important connection with SC4; and OFF TOPIC is basically a site back water. The thread title is a very INTENTIONAL pun. Recently, a number of content producers were asked to look at their area of expertise and our environment. As a gamer, I know that when I play CS or TF2, my PC sounds like a freight train with all the fans and pumps kicking in to cool it. This implies that its dissipating heat. Which implies that the number of watts it is pulling is up; and coal being burned to produce those watts is up along with watts for AC as it is around 100F + 90% relative humidity outside. Further despite all that mechanical activity, I can see on the front of my PC that core temp is up 20C, and from the system tray that GPU temp is up 35-40C. Now, when I was testing big cities with SC4Ckpt.exe even running at "cheetah", my PC was barely showing more power drain than when idling. So, SC4 is greener and legacy titles are quite green. So, are gamers who upgrade to a new PC every two years putting an excessive load on the grid? In general, new top of the line hardware doesn't just come with a price premium, but also a wattage premium and the PSU to drive it. But actually, the final analysis, shows that pulling 600 watts versus 300 watts is not the most significant aspect of our hobby. Most of the environmental impact comes from the acquisition of new hardware and disposal of old. So, Legacy/SC4 gamers are COOL! They are able to look past the marketing hype that drive sales or the +5 FPS a new PC buys (cores are increasing faster than GHz). They are able to look past 3D traffic jams and 3D 40,000 battles between Carthage&Rome. One last thing, the content producer notes if you purchase a certified refurbished i7 from a few years ago, you are neutral as the unit exists already. It was not built for you. Just that you might know that our hobby has more to commend it than just our the preservation of a the digital legacy of a new art form. PS: * My gaming PC is from 2015 * Our car 10 years old; a must have as we live in the mountains * My wife's media PC fully 1080p capable is from 2009 * Just got a unique legacy title (2009) yesterday for $10 USD (from a top game designer) compared to the $350 USD for AAA titles * And if you ask, I will not tell you the age of my clothes
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Hello everyone, This thread is for everyone to post anything related to computer technology and "technology" in general. This is a place to share our news, thoughts and idea's, discoveries, experiments, interests, habits.... Whatever it may be and you feel like sharing about tech stuff, this is the place. *Many post will be "time sensitive", so please, keep that in mind when reading.* ~I'm going to start with a recent find of mine. It is a website with current computer news articles, in house product reviews, free tools and much more. It's a very informative web site. Check it out. https://www.techpowerup.com/ ~Hers some news for GOG members and Epic Games. They are joining together, creating a new game launcher that will connect tons of game and you can launch them all in one place. 😮 You can sign up for the trial run going on now.: https://www.techpowerup.com/272855/gog-partners-with-epic-games-to-expand-into-a-universal-storefront While your there, go to the "Our software" tab and download some of the useful and FREE diagnostic tools for your computer. This tool is worth investigating, https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/. It is a low resource tool, providing vital info about your video card and graphics processor. It supports Intel graphic's, AMD, ATI and NVidia. Here's a screenshot of my GPU. It also can take a screenshot of only its self and store it in your desired location. Only one file to download and run. And that goes for many of their other tools. All the different tabs have a lot of good info. ~Here is a tool that lets you custom tweak your NVidia driver pakage. Beyond what NVidia lets you. Remove what you don't need. https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstall/ ~Here is a worth reading article about RAM speeds. https://www.pcgamer.com/au/amp/does-ram-speed-matter-gaming-amd-intel/ ~New and Fast Monitors! https://www.tomshardware.com/news/acer-predator-x34-s-a-34-inch-200hz-nano-ips-curved-monitor-w-05ms-response-time What, 0.5ms 😎 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lg-ultragear-nano-ips-gaming-monitors-38gl950g-27gl850,39635.html ~Sad news if you looking to buy a 3080 and 3090: https://www-tomshardware-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/nvidia-ceo-geforce-rtx-3080-and-3090-shortages-to-last-until-2021?usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D&_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From %1%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Fnews%2Fnvidia-ceo-geforce-rtx-3080-and-3090-shortages-to-last-until-2021 ~The NVidia performance war. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidias-geforce-rtx-3070-beats-2080-ti-in-first-performance-results
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I'm REALLY excited for Microsoft Flight Simulator. All my life, I've been into aviation and I hope to one day obtain a private pilot's certificate. They're doing so many things right. The game is being developed by Asobo Studio in Bordeaux. At the moment, it's the only other game I'm into other than New Cities, Cities: Skylines, and SimCity 4. All my life, fiction has frightened me, so the only games that don't frighten me are ones that "mimic reality." For a game to just "mesh with me," it also takes an active community continuously developing new content for the game. Microsoft Flight Simulator will be sure to have that. In the latest Feature Discovery Series video update, one of the employees of Asobo Studio had talked about how 37,000 airports were manually edited for use in the game and that 80 of the most played and busiest airports were given more attention and what they deemed to be the most iconic airports were given even more special treatment when it came to detail. The next Feature Discovery Series will be released next week. It'll be about Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). As opposed to Visual Flight Rules (VFR) where pilots fly based on their visual surroundings, when pilots fly IFR, they fly based on their instruments. Above the clouds, pilots must fly IFR. No, I'm not in the alpha, but those in the alpha have been saying good things on Reddit and they've been saying them as vaguely as possible. There's an NDA associated with applying for alpha testing.
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Couple years ago on our website I am now supporting SimCity (2013), SimCity 4 and cities skyline not just cities xl and cities xxl only. I created the gaming forum for city building games so users can share resources, media and forum with chat and club feature. Today I am letting you know i am ok with users uploading their resources, media. In couple weeks I will add showcase feature so users can submit there showcase Here my new website domain is https://cities-mods.com and check it out please
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Hello, maybe a stupid question but i have a very small YouTube channel (it's in dutch xD) . So maybe can you check out my channel it will be very nice if you do that ;P. P.s. my language is dutch so my english is not so good, sorry if my spelling is too bad xD. url:
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Hello everyone :), My name is David and i am 18 years of age. Currently a freshman in college, living in North Carolina. Was just cruising the internet and i found this forum and it looks like a fun community so i thought i would register:). What I like: I love gaming blogs and forums, weather its mobile, xbox, playstation, everything! I also love competeing, teaching, and learning with other people about games and how to become good in them. My favorite game would have to be Clash of Clans due to its competitiveness and i can just take it with me wherever i go (Galaxy S5). If anyone play Clash of Clans comment below because i'm looking for a clan, ill post a pic of my base below. I nearly have all maxed TH9 walls thanks to clashbot. But anyway, I cant wait to become apart of this community and meet a lot of you guys :).
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As the title says. I can't go after a desktop because I don't prefer them and I do need to bring my computer with me to many places. Here's the laptop: http://www.amazon.com/Razer-Blade-Touchscreen-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B00J06F4BK/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top So let me know if it's any good thanks. I don't mind the prices, so you can list any other laptops that you think are better.
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linux OBS beta in linux, make's let's plays in linux easy.
SpookyZalost posted a topic in General Off-Topic
so as the title states, OBS (Open Broadcast Software) is now available in linux, it's currently in beta and you need to use a repository to install it, but after installing it and an updated FFMPEG you can in fact record let's plays of games in linux, a few tweaks is all it takes to really get the kinks out, plus you can now stream gameplay too. just follow the following steps. sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next sudo apt-add-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ffmpeg obs-studio (note this is for debian based systems and apt) and of course make sure your graphics driver is the latest stable version (it makes a major difference) a few things of note... if you're going to do audio comentary, use a microphone with built in noise cancellation as the audio drivers in linux lack this if it's not built into the hardware. tweaking the recording cpu usage in the OBS settings to superfast makes a big difference in reguards to recording lag. and as for the audio being out of sync, well that kinda helps that too, combined with updated graphics drivers and such. so yeah, enjoy! and happy gaming/youtubing! -
It's a start. Science fiction is becoming science fact. All that needs to be added are holographic images and some kind of solidification for them.
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region North America West 2 Region Open JOIN!
StevenCoxGaming posted a topic in SimCity (2013) Region Games
New region opened add me StevenCoxGaming on origin to join please serious players only who will specilize in something!!!!! -
Best PC for running SC4 w/ custom content?
Goin2Chicago posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
Hi, All! I have a relatively simple question and I'm hoping the wonderful members of ST can provide some kind of help. This week, I just procured another copy of SC4. My intentions were to build my plugins folder slowly as I build cities, while also learning the art of lot editing to fill my maps with essentially all custom content (as we see so many members of ST do so masterfully). After loading it into my PC and downloading some of the basic plugins as a start (NAM, terrain mod, Mapper, maps, etc), I found that my PC is far too outdated for me to run this game with the intentions that I have. So how large of an upgrade would I have to make in order to smoothly operate SC4 with a deep plugin folder? I'm open to any suggestions, whether they be to simply upgrade my current system in some way or even if I should go as far as to buying a gaming computer. I just figured that the community who is always posting beautiful work filled with custom content must have an idea of the computing capacity necessary to the run the game in such a manner. I thank you all in advance for the help!
