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The only thing bad about SimCity 4 was the performance was less than stellar. Other than that, 3000 and 4 were just as good as 2000.
by mhurron 14y ago
The only thing bad about SimCity 4 was the performance was less than stellar. Other than that, 3000 and 4 were just as good as 2000.
- khuey 14y agoA decent size SC4 city can bring today's hardware to its knees, and the game is 10 years old.
- kbolino 14y agoIt would be more accurate to say that SC4 is not optimized for today's hardware. It relies entirely on single-threaded performance, which has not improved appreciably since the days when it was released. Furthermore, it is 32-bit and not large address aware, which means it is limited to about 1.5GB of memory. Needless to say, this would max out a Pentium 4 single-core system with 2GB of RAM circa mid-2000s, but it will leave your (not too) modern 4-core desktop with 8GB of RAM sitting mostly idle with lots of free memory. The game may run slow with large cities, but that's because it doesn't know how to take advantage of modern tech, not because that modern tech is being pushed to its limits.
- jlarocco 14y agoI guess it's personal preference. For me, the new stuff in 3K didn't make it more fun, it just made it more work to get a city going. It could be I didn't put in the time to understand the new stuff, though.