Just installed sim city 4000 horrible performance? why..i got good rig.

Adam Senior · 23 Dec 2007 at 00:11

Hi. wondering if any one can help, i have a good rig, core 2 duo. x1950xt 512. 2 gig of ram. runnin on windows xp. o put all settings on high and it runs awfullll. scrolling is dread full. menus sluggish. any ideas? im sure it performed better on my 3yr old rig.

snowdog · 23 Dec 2007 at 00:57

No it always performed like this.
Doesn't matter what settings it's the engine.

Adam Senior · 23 Dec 2007 at 01:17

damn,,,no patches to sorth this?

snowdog · 23 Dec 2007 at 01:25

Not that I know, I think I'm patched up yet it's a complete lag especially in big cities, although that maybe due to the fact I have 4 gb of plugins, but still, it often grinds to a halt and often have to give it 10 secs to load the buldings etc after scrolling, although it's only a single time mostly, once I go away and come back to the place it just loaded it's instant if it had enough ram, iirc people recommended me 4gb of RAM for it if you want it to keep everything loaded after loading stuff the first time.

badbob · 23 Dec 2007 at 01:28

It's faster on my brothers P4 2.6ghz Geforce MX440 than my A64x2 X1900XT 2GB! :rolleyes:

snowdog · 23 Dec 2007 at 18:16

Probably defaulted on software rendering or something on your dads pc instead of on hardware redering.

zytok · 24 Dec 2007 at 09:39

iirc it doesn't identify recent ATi cards properly. There's some manual config editing you can do to get it running better. Used to drop down to <5fps on my X1800.

Pottsey · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:35

Well if you have a time machine and get a game from the future you cannot expect it to run on today’s machines.

Adam Senior · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:35

any one know how to tweak to run on newer cards?

snowdog · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:48

Oh wait, 5 fps? I thought u guys meant the loading of the buildings after u scrolled to em ? Fps seem stable on my 6800GS. It's the loading of all the buildings that I considered lag.

Caged · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:49

The issues you are describing are due to the game being made by EA.

snowdog · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:51

Maxis made it not EA. Maxis happened to be taken over by EA but EA hasn't touched the game.

Caged · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:54

They were bought by EA in 1997, 6 years before SimCity 4 was released. I'm sure it's no coincidence that the quality of the Sim series of games declined after the takeover.

snowdog · 24 Dec 2007 at 16:46

Uhm? Sim city 4 was the best sim city ever, finally a proper sim instead of an arcadey like game. ( imo offcourse). The only bad quality sc game was SCS, but that's because it wasn't develloped by maxis.