Kinda off topic cause it doesn't have to do with the specs.
I have this game for PC, and it is really nothing special. It wanders away from the original game, as the point is to just build massive areas of land, very quickly, or you will not gain money. You can easily fill a whole block of land with stuff in an hour. You then move on to a different area in the region. It gets old FAST...
Kinda off topic cause it doesn't have to do with the specs.
I have this game for PC, and it is really nothing special. It wanders away from the original game, as the point is to just build massive areas of land, very quickly, or you will not gain money. You can easily fill a whole block of land with stuff in an hour. You then move on to a different area in the region. It gets old FAST...
SC4 and it's micromanagement is so lame. What next? SimCity, SimTower, SimAnt and Sims merge together? And you get to build your city and build your Sim's homes, manage your commercial tower buildings, and invade your Sim's homes with your ants?
Yes! seriously I always dreamed of all the Sims in one. It's fun to dream but I guess realistically that would be kinda nutty. But seriously how great would SimAnts be? I can see it now: at least in an update or mod, there should be an Disaster where ants attack the city in tribute to Simant!
I've installed it on my 16mb vram iBook700. It runs, but... with everything turned down it's too ugly to play. I'm going to try it on my 450 g3, 32mb Radeon Blue&White tower... we'll see... it's a sweet game though
An associate of mine has SimCity 4 on his dual 450 G4 with 32 MB Radeon and complains that it is very slow. I suspect running it on an iBook with normal settings would just be unusable.
Yeah, the game is not necessarily a marvel in clean, optimized code. Furthermore, it is by no means easy on the CPU. On my dual 450, the game defaults all the settings to LOW, and turns off a lot of effects. I have a 32MB Radeon.
Furthermore, I know people with really fast P4s that complain that once your city grows beyond 10,000 sims or so, it just slows to a crawl. There is no reason why this would not happen at or earlier than 10,000 sims, and much sooner on a G3, if the G3 could even get off the ground.
Need a mental picture? Think Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose is the game, and your computer is the planet's atmosphere
Crap that sucks. Any tips to speed it up? I'm on a PowerBook G4 12" w/ 640 RAM and I'm waiting to get SimCity 4 still. I hope it's playable at better than low quality? How bout high quality?
Crap that sucks. Any tips to speed it up? I'm on a PowerBook G4 12" w/ 640 RAM and I'm waiting to get SimCity 4 still. I hope it's playable at better than low quality? How bout high quality?
Only thing you can do is turn all the settings to LOW. Turn off any extra eye candy features. That's it. Should be OK on your PowerBook though.
Graphite iMac (Stock ATi 16MB, 512 MB RAM) <-- With all settings turned down it seems to run acceptably, and looks fine. The biggest thing is to turn off edge scrolling, and use right click for navigation instead.
Note: Haven't played long enough to have huge cities... I'm sure performance is gonna take a hit the bigger the cities get.... might end up being unplayable on the iMac.
Current top-o-the-line 12" iBook plays it ok. Haven't had time to play it much yet or grow a city too large, so can't say too much. I expect my new Dual G5 with ATI 9800 Pro will play it nicely.
I just got it and it plays beautifully with my 1 Ghz 17in iMac w/ 1 Gig of Ram... In the beginning its wonderful and i have everything maxed except the resolution i have it in the middle of 1020x640 and 1600x???... When i decided to imported a large enough city to see how slow it gets... Well this city i tested had over 100,000 people in it and the slowdown was very considerably... Disasters were almost impossible to try... Im very amazed at how my newer computer with a 64 mb Geforce 4 mx graphics card and freakin 1 gig of ram!! could not handle the load very well... I can't even imagine playing with over 1 million people lol I guess thats why they made it so much harder to build up your city cause most machines can't handle it ! lol So sad too cause i have always loved Sim City... I hope they can fix this in the future... Don't get me wrong tho great effects, gameplay top notch... but come on guys speed that b**** up ! lol
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I have this game for PC, and it is really nothing special. It wanders away from the original game, as the point is to just build massive areas of land, very quickly, or you will not gain money. You can easily fill a whole block of land with stuff in an hour. You then move on to a different area in the region. It gets old FAST...
Originally posted by The Wiz
Kinda off topic cause it doesn't have to do with the specs.
I have this game for PC, and it is really nothing special. It wanders away from the original game, as the point is to just build massive areas of land, very quickly, or you will not gain money. You can easily fill a whole block of land with stuff in an hour. You then move on to a different area in the region. It gets old FAST...
So you say SC4 is not as good as SC3?
At the very least, SC4 will run under OS X.
SC4 and it's micromanagement is so lame. What next? SimCity, SimTower, SimAnt and Sims merge together? And you get to build your city and build your Sim's homes, manage your commercial tower buildings, and invade your Sim's homes with your ants?
Yes! seriously I always dreamed of all the Sims in one. It's fun to dream but I guess realistically that would be kinda nutty. But seriously how great would SimAnts be?
... ok, maybe not...
playing simtower in classic now...
but do you think it will run on a 450Mhz G4?
When I get it, I'll try it on my G4/450 Sawtooth (Radeon 8500, 1GB RAM) and let you know how it does. I expect it'll run okay...
Originally posted by Th0r
Amazon still hasn't shipped mine- ordered June 29
;.;!! I want this game!! Too bad my Vram is so low! >.<
Bastards! I want SC4!
Furthermore, I know people with really fast P4s that complain that once your city grows beyond 10,000 sims or so, it just slows to a crawl. There is no reason why this would not happen at or earlier than 10,000 sims, and much sooner on a G3, if the G3 could even get off the ground.
Need a mental picture? Think Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose is the game, and your computer is the planet's atmosphere
It runs much more smoothly, although still slowly, on my 450 Cube with a GeForce 2.
All in all, I think you'd be disappointed if you bought it to run on an 16 MB iBook.
As for me, I'm going to have to start looking at the prices for processor upgrades for my Cube.
Originally posted by Aquatic
Crap that sucks. Any tips to speed it up? I'm on a PowerBook G4 12" w/ 640 RAM and I'm waiting to get SimCity 4 still. I hope it's playable at better than low quality? How bout high quality?
Only thing you can do is turn all the settings to LOW. Turn off any extra eye candy features. That's it. Should be OK on your PowerBook though.
G4/450 Sawtooth (Radeon 8500, 1GB RAM) <-- Runs great.
All settings cranked up.
Graphite iMac (Stock ATi 16MB, 512 MB RAM) <-- With all settings turned down it seems to run acceptably, and looks fine. The biggest thing is to turn off edge scrolling, and use right click for navigation instead.
DP G4/1.25 2003 (Radeon 9000 pro, 1.5GB RAM) <-- Perfect
Note: Haven't played long enough to have huge cities... I'm sure performance is gonna take a hit the bigger the cities get.... might end up being unplayable on the iMac.