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Its not because of a mod. this happened when i use hardware rendering, but if i use software rendering the problem fixed but the screen glitches. Any solutions?
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Problems with Shadow appears Cracks Fissure
Buildings_Top posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
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How to make SC4 run with the dedicated GPU on notebook?
Lu posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
I tried to follow some guides that I found here, but none worked, I hope that by creating a topic of my own someone can help me or I can understand better and be able to solve it. I have installed SC4 from steam, SC4Launcher, 4GBpatch for SC4 and SC4Launcher. How far did I get> my Video Cards.sgr my Graphics Rules.sbr OBS: i dont know why, but this information always disappear when I launch the game and I need to put it back The state of the game and GPU usage, first with the SC4Launcher: If I try to open with the High-performance NVIDIA processor its fail to open :v the windows explorer is restarted Opening normally with the software option, it opens and is even smooth, maybe because of the SSD, but as you can see the use of the GTX 1050 is 0 It opens normally with the DirectX option, but the game runs with lower FPS. trying to use the option of High-performance NVIDIA processor in SimCity 4.exe instead of the Launcher, it opens normally, but even so it does not use the GTX 1050, it opens according to the information saved in SC4Launcher. I hope there is some way for this to be resolved. Thanks -
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This is another plopable version of Bobbo662 Lowes. The lot was remastered by Nos.17 The Lot is not changed. It has custom menus and Sound. It will be in the Landmark Menu. INSTALLATION I would strongly encourage you to delete all B62 Remastered - Lowes Home Improvement Lots from your cities if you already have the B62 Remastered - Lowes Home Improvement & Distribution Centers. Step 1: Put the atsf189_B62_lowes folder into your plugins folder. Step 2: Add this folder from the B62 Remastered - Lowes Home Improvement & Distribution Centers download: B62-Lowes Home Improvements folder Step 3: Delete the rest of B62 Remastered - Lowes Home Improvement & Distribution Centers download files. The rest of the files are not needed for this plop version. Dependencies: B62 Remastered - Lowes Home Improvement & Distribution Centers Download BSC Textures Vol 01 BSC Mega Props - SG vol 01 SHK Parking Pack BSC Mega Props - JES Vol01 BSC Mega Props - JES Vol02 This has not been tested on the Apple Platform -
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This is a plopable version of RRetail's Home Depot. The Lot is not changed. It has custom menus and Sound. There are custom Icons also. It will be in the Landmark Menu. INSTALLATION Step 1: Put the atsf189_RRetail_Home_Depot folder into your plugins folder. Step 2: Add this file from the RRetail's Home Depot v1.1 download. RR Home Depot-0x5ad0e817_0x27d79b48_0xaf90000.SC4Model Step 3: Delete the rest of RRetail's Home Depot v1.1 download files. The rest of the files are not needed for this plop version. Dependencies: RRetail's Home Depot v1.1 download LBT MEGA Prop Pack Vol 1 Mushy's Trailers BSC MEGA Props SG Vol 1 RR MEGA Prop Pack Vol. 1 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 1 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 3 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 5 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 8 BSC MEGA Props MJB Vol 1 SHK Parking Pack SuperSHK MEGA Parking Textures 1.0.1 SuperSHK + FA3 Parking Textures BSC - VIP Girafe Trees/Shrubs: Beech Trees Berries Birch Trees Chestnut Trees Feather Grass Linden Trees Maple Trees Poplar Trees Rowan Trees Walnut Trees This has not been tested on the Apple Platform- 1 Review
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The best 'reasonably priced' new PC to run SC4 as well as possible
Haljackey posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
Well I made a decision. My current PC- which contains guts from 2010 when I built the thing from scratch, is going to get a replacement. The only thing I remember upgrading was the GPU in 2015 to run Skylines better. It's done a good job running SC4, but now I want to get something new and replace it before something on it dies. It will still be a good backup. ----- I'm hoping on Black Friday I'll take advantage of some promos and build an entirely new PC from scratch. I want to aim this build to run SC4 as best as it possibly could. I'm thinking my budget for a new build will be $1k-1,500 CDN, but I can stomach up to 2k. That's why I say reasonably priced in the title. Not cheap, but also won't have a 3k GPU in it. ----- Having said that, I'd like input from the community. What guts do you recommend to get a brand new PC to run SC4 well on a 2022 build? What CPU should I get? I'm thinking less cores, more GHz per core? What motherboard? What graphics card? What RAM and how many GB? What power supply? Etc... I assume this will run Windows 11 too if that helps. I'd also see if I can get the game to stream/record better. Getting decent FPS in dense cities with a large plugin folder is something my current PC struggles to do. Ideally I want to record/streem seamlessly at 1080p 60FPS. Advice welcome! Thanks in advance! -
survey Network Addon Mod & SimCity 4 - Hardware and Software Survey
Ulisse Wolf posted a topic in NAM & Transit Networks
Network Addon Mod & SimCity 4 - Hardware and Software Survey With the arrival of Network Addon Mod (Version 44) and the start of development of version 45 we decided to do a survey to understand what actions we need to take in later versions of NAM. First we want to understand the hardware and operating system in which SimCity 4 is run and consequently Network Addon Mod. In addition we also want to understand some priorities in the development of NAM . Before answering this survey we provide you with tutorials on how to accurately answer questions 1 How do I see what kind of CPU and RAM I have? -Windows (Method A) Windows (Method B - Generic method for all versions of Windows) -Linux (Versions other than Ubuntu the procedure may be different) -MacOS (It is held in consideration from 2019 the MacOS are only compatible with 64 Bit processors) 2 Do I need to use a google account to respond to this survey? No 3 How do I know which NAM version I have? You have to go to the highways menu and select this icon After you have read this short tutorial here is the link where you can answer this survey Feel free to ask more questions about this survey or comments related to this thread- 12 Replies
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Hello, I'm from Indonesia and in advance sorry if my English is a bit bad but I'll try my best. I've tried several ways to run the game in hardware mode but the most successful is with dgvoodoo but this makes the game very slow and I think it's worse than software mode. is there any other way or tips to be able to run games with hardware mode other than dgvoodoo? the unique thing if I play without any additional applications the hardware mode can be very fast and smooth but there are some objects in the game that are distorted laptop specifications Intel i3 Generation 11 intel UHD graphics 620 128 mb VRAM 8gb ram
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Hello everybody so i reinstalled SimCity 4 on my new pc but it seems i have problems running it basically now it runs (very fast) but there r some graphic glitches like these: btw it's a freshly installed vanilla version of SimCity 4 and all graphic settings are at default and these r my pc specs: and this is the ssd in which evreything runs: and this is everything i have installed: so please tell me why is this happening???
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Introducing the Steam Deck, an open-hardware Steam OS powered handheld PC (It's a fat Switch). Not bad specs, with the option to rip out Steam OS and install whatever you like. I'm thinking that this might become my new Minecraft machine. Gonna need to see how well I can make SC4 and Civ4 work with the gamepad layout. https://www.steamdeck.com/en/
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So my specs are a ryzen 5 3600 at 4.3ghz, a radeon 5600xt OC 16gb of ram. Whenever I try launching sc4 with the launcher mod it says something about not being able to initialize my graphics card. Every other game works but sc4 does anyone have a solution to this?
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What does hardware rendering mean? And how is it done?
nickvon posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
I want to run this terrain mod: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2867 It is HD and requires hardware rendering. What is that and how do I do it? Thanks in advance for your time. -
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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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guide How to run SimCity 4 Natively above 1920x1080 in Hardware Mode!!!
Durfsurn posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
So I recently bought a new computer screen with the jaw dropping resolution of 5120×1440 and was looking into getting SimCity 4 to run at something closer to native resolution. It has been known to the community for some time that SimCity 4 is locked to resolutions under 2048ish pixels either wide or high in hardware mode, the source of this limit is DirectX 7 which cannot handle resolutions any higher. This could be circumnavigated by running SC4 in software rendering mode (CPU only) but this caused other issues and notably reduced the graphics. However I have found a fantastic repository which can breathe new life into many games that use DirectX 9 or earlier called dxWrapper which includes a Legacy Hack for removing the resolution restriction, among other tricks. Anyway, with the help of one of the fantastic developers (elishacloud), a configuration was found that enables resolutions such as 4k and beyond! You can follow the Github Issue here but I will provide a summary below; IMPORTANT DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP: Make sure your game is patched with the NTCore 4GB patch! Download the latest release of dxWrapper from this link: https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases Open the .zip in 7zip or WinRar and separately navigate to your SimCity 4 Deluxe/Apps folder. Extract the following files from the .zip: dxwrapper.dll, dxwrapper.ini, Stub/ddraw.dll and copy them into your Apps folder (next to your SimCity 4.exe file). Open the dxwrapper.ini file and paste the code below into it. Use a SimCity 4 Launcher to select any resolution you like! I am hoping to follow up this post with a guide on how to run the game at higher than native resolutions and scale it down to provide the greatest graphical fidelity. - Billy dxwrapper.ini: >;; Config file for DirectX DLL Wrapper [General] RealDllPath = AUTO WrapperMode = AUTO LoadCustomDllPath = ExcludeProcess = IncludeProcess = RunProcess = WaitForProcess = 0 DisableLogging = 0 [Plugins] LoadPlugins = 0 LoadFromScriptsOnly = 0 [Compatibility] Dd7to9 = 0 D3d8to9 = 0 DDrawCompat = 0 Dinputto8 = 0 DisableGameUX = 0 DSoundCtrl = 0 DxWnd = 0 EnableDdrawWrapper = 1 HandleExceptions = 0 SingleProcAffinity = 0 [DDrawCompat] DDrawCompat20 = 0 DDrawCompat21 = 0 DDrawCompatExperimental = 0 DDrawCompatDisableGDIHook = 0 DDrawCompatNoProcAffinity = 0 [ddraw] ConvertToDirectDraw7 = 0 ConvertToDirect3D7 = 0 DdrawOverrideBitMode = 0 [Dd7to9] AutoFrameSkip = 0 DdrawEmulateSurface = 0 DdrawLimitDisplayModeCount = 0 DdrawUseNativeResolution = 0 DdrawClippedWidth = 0 DdrawClippedHeight = 0 DdrawOverrideWidth = 0 DdrawOverrideHeight = 0 DdrawOverrideRefreshRate = 0 DdrawIntegerScalingClamp = 0 DdrawMaintainAspectRatio = 0 [d3d9] AntiAliasing = 0 EnableVSync = 0 EnableWindowMode = 0 FullscreenWindowMode = 0 WindowModeBorder = 0 [FullScreen] FullScreen = 0 ForceWindowResize = 0 WaitForWindowChanges = 0 [DSoundCtrl] Num2DBuffers = 0 Num3DBuffers = 0 ForceCertification = 0 ForceExclusiveMode = 0 ForceSoftwareMixing = 0 ForceHardwareMixing = 0 PreventSpeakerSetup = 0 ForceHQ3DSoftMixing = 0 ForceNonStaticBuffers = 0 ForceVoiceManagement = 0 ForcePrimaryBufferFormat = 0 PrimaryBufferBits = 16 PrimaryBufferSamples = 44100 PrimaryBufferChannels = 2 ForceSpeakerConfig = 0 SpeakerConfig = 6- 89 Replies
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Hello Guys, sorry for my English, I'm from Brazil. I had a older computer but now, it's gone. I tried to play SimCity for in my Notebook. Specs: Notebook Asus Vivobook 15 - Asus X510UR Core I5 8gen SSD SATA 3 8 GB RAM GPU NVIDIA GEFORCE 930mx 2GB Intel UHD 630 Well, a tried the methods of the forum for "New Hardware", but i can't play the game smoothly, I had severe losses of Frame Rate. Anyone have a solution for the problems witch Nvidia 9xx mobiles GPU. I think that the integrated graphics are good too, but i can't run the game smoothly with them too.
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Hello, I have a midrange laptop with Ryzen 5 2500U, 8 gigs of RAM (non dual-channel unfortunately), 1 TB of mechanical drive, and (if I remembered correctly) 1809 Windows 10. For mods, I only have NAM, CAM, SC4Fix, and other little ones. With this spec however, the game still stutters, even in 30K population city, although not as laggy as my older laptop. I have seen a YouTuber running SimCity 4 very smoothly. How to run SimCity 4 smoothly? Should I upgrade the mechanical drive? Is the RAM an issue? Is a 10,000 dollars PC with i9-10900K, RTX 2080 Ti, 64 GB of DDR4 (or in near future, DDR5) RAM, and 4 TB of pro-grade (or even enterprise grade) NVMe SSDs worth it? (That's an exaggeration, but you get the idea) Thanks.
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The Home Depot is a home-improvement retailer that operates stores in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The company was co-founded in 1978 by Bernard Marcus, Arthur Blank, Ron Brill, and Pat Farrah. Investment banker Ken Langone also helped Marcus and Blank to secure the finances needed to get the company going. The first two stores, in spaces leased from J. C. Penney that were originally Treasure Island stores, opened in metro Atlanta on June 21, 1979. 12x11 lot with around 600 jobs Dependencies: LBT MEGA Prop Pack Vol 1 Mushy's Trailers BSC MEGA Props SG Vol 1 RR MEGA Prop Pack Vol. 1 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 1 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 3 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 5 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 8 BSC MEGA Props MJB Vol 1 SHK Parking Pack SuperSHK MEGA Parking Textures 1.0.1 SuperSHK + FA3 Parking Textures BSC - VIP Girafe Trees/Shrubs Beech Trees Berries Birch Trees Chestnut Trees Feather Grass Linden Trees Maple Trees Poplar Trees Rowan Trees Walnut Trees- 4 Reviews
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Doing business as Lowe's, Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a home improvement retailer. Headquartered in Mooresville, NC, the chain opened its first opened in North Wilkesboro, NC in 1921. Lowe’s is the second-largest hardware chain both in the U.S. and the world. As of November 2018, Lowe’s operates over 2,000 stores. 11x12 lot with 693 jobs Dependencies: LBT MEGA Prop Pack Vol 1 Mushy's Trailers BSC MEGA Props SG Vol 1 RR MEGA Prop Pack Vol. 1 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 1 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 3 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 5 BSC MEGA Props JES Vol 8 BSC MEGA Props MJB Vol 1 SHK Parking Pack SuperSHK MEGA Parking Textures 1.0.1 SuperSHK + FA3 Parking Textures BSC - VIP Girafe Trees/Shrubs Beech Trees Berries Birch Trees Chestnut Trees Feather Grass Linden Trees Maple Trees Poplar Trees Rowan Trees Walnut Trees -
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Bauhaus Mannheim, by Mattb325. --------------------------------------- With the slogan "erhalten Sie alles was Sie brauchen, wenn's gut werden muss!" (Get everything you need, when it's good), Bauhaus is a chain of home-improvement box stores, similar to Bunnings in Australia, or B&Q in the UK, or Home Depot in the USA. I was actually looking for source material for the REAL Bauhaus in Dessau as I intend to BAT it, and when the image of a box store in Mannheim appeared with quasi-architectural nods to Gropius, it was just so, so wrong on so, so many levels, that I couldn't resist batting it. That aside, this very boxy building itself isn't too bad and I rather like the exposed girders on the upper terrace and the double panes of glass that make the windows look like retro cathode-ray TV sets. It's a little tacky, but it's different and there is not much similar in game. Surprisingly, on a 4x4 lot, in game this building is actually really useful as an end piece to a typical W2W set of streets (as per the images) where the layout is back-to-back 1x2 rows: it caps the whole street off rather well. Of course it works in a non-W2W as well. The building comes in a growable CS§§ 4x4 lot. It grows on all tilesets and in my opinion works equally well in a Euro or US environment, and I always have insatiable CS demand in my regions, so given that this will soak up almost 800 CS§§, that's a good thing. --------------------------------------- STATS CS§§: Lot size : 4x4 Growth Stage: 6 (Medium and High Density Zoning) Bulldoze Cost: § 434 Capacity Satisfied:CS§ 3,177 CS§§ 797 Pollution: 29 (Air)/ 19 (Water)/ 39 (Garbage ) Pollution Radius: 5/6/0 Power Consumed: 64 Mwh Water Consumed: 766 Gal/Month Building Style: Chicago/NY/Houston/Euro Occupant Group: Medium Wealth Commercial Services Building --------------------------------------- NOTE ABOUT DARK NITE vs MAXIS NITE: There are two model files in this download. You must select the appropriate file from the download. The file suffixed with 'DN' is for those users with a night-time darkening mod installed. The file suffixed with 'MN' is for users who do not have any such mods installed. If you are unsure whether you have a night-darkening mod installed, then choose the Maxis night version. If you use the dark nite version, you will need a dark nite mod. (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/23089-simfox-day-and-nite-modd/) --------------------------------------- DEPENDENCIES: * Mattb325 BAT Props Vol02: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2383 --------------------------------------- To install, simply unzip the contents of this file into your plugins folder. -
I have been running my game with software rendering mode, but the non-HD terrain mod is starting to annoy me and I'd like to use a HD mod. HD terrain mods+software rendering=CTD Is there any way to escape software rendering mode?
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Sudden and sporadic / unpredictable crashing after correcting fullscreen crashes
xDEFCONx posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
Hey there, I have been fiddling around with organizing my plugins, optimizing the game, etc. Out of nowhere, my game is now being very stubborn, which never really happened before some things. My plugins folder is just shy of 6 GB. I recently restructured it and organized the loading order, etc. I have been (before "optimizing" the game) able to play flawlessly without crashes. Saving led to no problems, gameplay was about as smooth as it can get with that many plugins loaded in at once. However, recently I had an issue of my idiotic city tile thumbnail displaying as a flat tile. It infuriated me enough that I attempted to correct this. I generally play in borderless windowed mode on hardware, but the moment I tried loading it with fullscreen enabled, I was met with instantaneous application crashing. Fullscreen functioned fine in software. I (was) also using an HD terrain mod, so I had to have it in hardware, so it was necessary to correct this and not just play on software. I went through and first tweaked the Graphics Rules and Video Cards .sgrs from the posted tutorial. I'm currently running with two SLI 1080ti (yes), and I have SC4 using only one w/ application controlled settings (default on the NVIDIA settings). It didn't correct the problem and the game still crashed (most likely because I do not know the input syntax for a 1080ti beyond the actual device ID and whatnot, and fortunately there's no documentation specifically for my card). I state this because I don't know if this could be contributing to the issue right now because of how beefy this setup is, but I'm stating it for possible consideration. I replaced the altered .sgr's with the vanilla ones after this as well. And yes, I have been running with the CPUcount:1 flag. HOWEVER, it did work when I switched SC4 over into compatibility mode (windows xp) fortunately, and somehow still worked even when I disabled compatibility afterward... which is odd. Whenever I play the game now, I pretty much get met with standard gameplay for about 10 minutes, right up until the game just vanishes before my eyes. As well, saving is now causing crashes (the game is saving successfully, it just decides to die post-save or when attempting to return to the region.) I decided to return to the same settings I had run with prior to the crashing, as I assumed it was fullscreen, but the issue is still present. I'm not doing any sudden camera movements like scroll zooming that are infamous for crashes either. I won't be surprised if this is because of the sheer bulk size of my plugins folder. However, I find it unusual that I could run the same load size before these shenanigans with full stability, of which I experienced no CTDs in normal gameplay and saving. Any help would be grand. I've gone through pretty much every resource on the site, and I'm very confused as to what could be the origin of these woes. I also have some other floating questions, if it's any help: Could it be the city tile itself that has too much being rendered on it and I'm just now experiencing the side effects of a lot of stuff in one city? Since I removed the HD terrain pack now, should I just stick to playing on software? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. -
I've got a laptop with an Intel HD 3000, 8GB ram I5 Windows 7 64Bit. I have a particular issue I haven't been able to find any information about over the course of a long while searching. I'd really like to run the game in Hardware mode so I can use the HD Textures. The game runs fine, except the fps drops to practically 1 fp/s if shadows are turned on. In Hardware Mode, aside from a bunch of weird graphic anomalies/junk the game runs and looks fine, totally playable, unless I turn Shadows up from Low, Low is no shadows, and it looks weird and takes me out of the game somewhat. Once I turn Shadows on, the game is basically unplayable, extremely laggy, shadows look nice, but the game runs at like 1 fps. Other than extreme lag the game runs fine, and zooming in/having a limited amount of shadows being cast on the screen alleviates the issue. Software mode runs completely fine, free of any graphical issues aside from the lack of HD textures, it does look somewhat better overall and is more graphically stable, and I can turn shadows on from Low to High and everything is great, the shadows look nice, no impact on performance. I'm wondering if anyone has a similar experience and if a fix exists to turn on Shadows in Hardware mode on this particular hardware without making the game unplayable laggy (it's a common HP laptop circa ~2011)? I've tried all of the 'usual' stuff that you find while searching this issue. I launch the game using SC4 Launcher. Have tried launching in OpenGL, but it's the same as Software mode. The game is only lagging in regards to scrolling. I remember reading a supposed fix that someone had found to fix the slow scrolling in Hardware mode, but I didn't seem to get any result. Thanks.
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Can't run SimCity 4 on separate NVIDIA 940M graphics card.
RosaParx posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
Hello, I'm trying to get SimCity 4 to run on my second GPU -- NVIDIA GeForce 940M graphics card. The game runs on an Intel HD Graphics 520 card and it makes SimCity lag (I would think it wouldn't since this computer model is about 3 years old). I went through other posts regarding changing graphics drivers, but I can't find anything on it for this specific card. I've tried this (changed properties to -d:OpenGL) and it didn't work or force the game to switch from Intel HD Graphics cards to NVIDIA card. & this: & this: (when I look up the system info for the graphic card specs I can't find the 0x0000 number that's mentioned in the link above to attach to Video Cards.sgr) Still can't really find anything that relates to the NVIDIA 940M graphics card and putting in the correct on the Video Cards.sgr or the Graphics Rule.sgr files. I've also changed my computer to only run on NVIDIA when I open programmes from the NVIDIA control panel; that didn't work either. Maybe my computer is playing games with me since I'm playing games on it? These are the computer specs: Product Name m7-n109dx Product Number M1W11UA Microprocessor 6th generation Intel® Core™ i7-6500U (2.5GHz with turbo boost up to 3.1GHz, 4MB L3 Cache) Dual Core Memory 16GB DDR3L SDRAM (2 DIMM) Video Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce® 940M Graphics with 2048MB of dedicated video memory with up 4096MB total graphics memory Display 17.3" diagonal FHD (33) IPS anti-glare WLED-backlit touch screen (1920x1080) Hard Drive 1TB 5400RPM hard drive Multimedia Drive SuperMulti DVD burner Network Card Integrated 10/100/1000 GbE LAN Wireless Connectivity 2x2 802.11ac WLAN and Bluetooth External Ports Multi-Format Digital Media Card Reader 4 SuperSpeed USB 3.0, 1 supporting USB Boost 1 HDMI 1 RJ-45 (LAN) 1 Headphone-out/microphone-in combo jack Sound Bang & Olufsen with dual speakers Keyboard Full-size backlit keyboard with numeric keypad Pointing Device HP Imagepad with multi-touch gesture support Dimensions 1.21 in (H) x 16.34 in (H) x 11.07 in (D) Weight 6.97 lb Power 65W AC adapter 4-cell 41WHr 2.8Ah lithium-ion battery Camera Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera (front-facing) 1920 x 1080, 2 MP, with integrated dual array digital microphones -
hello everyone i have not idea about how enough graphic system required to play SimCity 4 smoothly in Intel® and what is the type of settings that should be typed in shottcut, so i will give you guys my computer systems + my shortcut options below. shortcut : "C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity deluxe 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -f -CustomResolution:enabled -r1024x768x32 -Intro:off -d:software -gp -CPUCount:1 system : Microsoft Windows 7 Professional operating system Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Duo Processor CPU T6570 @ 2.10GHz, 2101 MHz, 2 core (s), Moile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family Mobile Intel(R) GMA 4500MHD Regional Option United States Hardware abstraction layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514" Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB direcctx 11
