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Post by voyager on Jun 8, 2004 9:14:58 GMT -5
I noticed some of you like Sim based games. Have you played simcity 4 and whats your best city stats?
Mine is a city I called Enterprise, and it had 5 million people, no crime, 200 education qoutiant, and I used no cheats, playing on hard
I also had 4 surrounding cities, but Enterprise was the main residential city
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Post by valderra on Jun 8, 2004 10:08:19 GMT -5
Well I have the game and was quite excited about it - at first. But I am STILL not able to see a train when I build tracks. And yes, I DO connect the tracks to the neighbouring cities, which I find silly because there should be a train even if it´s just for my own town. Anyway, after getting over the God-like effects I can have on my cities, I got a little irritated with the gameplay. All in all I prefer SimCity 3000 - I still have it and love it the most (except the original SimCity of course, which was such a cute game).
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Post by voyager on Jun 8, 2004 10:29:14 GMT -5
Have you adjusted the game settings Valderra?
If you don't put them on high, you will see very few trains and few cars. I once had the settings on low and wondered why the hell it was telling me I had traffic problems on one road, and then I realized I had not changed my settings and once I did that, a shitload of cars appeared on that stretch. So I ended up turning it into an avenue instead and traffic dropped
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Post by valderra on Jun 8, 2004 12:35:48 GMT -5
Have you adjusted the game settings Valderra? If you don't put them on high, you will see very few trains and few cars. I once had the settings on low and wondered why the hell it was telling me I had traffic problems on one road, and then I realized I had not changed my settings and once I did that, a shitload of cars appeared on that stretch. So I ended up turning it into an avenue instead and traffic dropped Hmmm.... can´t really say if I had the settings on high or not. It´s been such a while since I played it, I don´t remember. But might be worth installing it again and checking it out. Thanks VGER.
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Post by voyager on Jun 8, 2004 21:02:14 GMT -5
as a word of warning though, if you do not have a high end PC, dont adjust the settings past medium. If you do, you will have serious lag on bigger cities
The safest Ram needed for high settings is roughly 768MB Ram. Any less and lag city, which is one drawback to that game that I hate. I actually upgraded to 1 Gig of Ram just for that game
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Post by valderra on Jun 9, 2004 4:51:18 GMT -5
as a word of warning though, if you do not have a high end PC, dont adjust the settings past medium. If you do, you will have serious lag on bigger cities The safest Ram needed for high settings is roughly 768MB Ram. Any less and lag city, which is one drawback to that game that I hate. I actually upgraded to 1 Gig of Ram just for that game Well, don´t worry about me. I have a Pentium IV with 2.66 GHz and pretty high specs. My laptop is only just over a year old. But I think you are exaggerating a little with your 768MB RAM. The game only requires 128MB !! Check the back of the box. And considering this game has been out for a while, I doubt many people would have had a computer with 768MB of RAM. LOL
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Post by voyager on Jun 9, 2004 6:45:21 GMT -5
goto www.simtropolis.com and do a search for lag and see how many complaints they have also goto www.simcity.com and search there forumns as well, you will see the same thing They messed up on those specs bigtime, because I have suffered that lag effect first hand, where a normal day with no lag is about 5-7 seconds, with the lag a day can last 5 minutes, it is that bad
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Post by valderra on Jun 9, 2004 12:12:09 GMT -5
goto www.simtropolis.com and do a search for lag and see how many complaints they have also goto www.simcity.com and search there forumns as well, you will see the same thing They messed up on those specs bigtime, because I have suffered that lag effect first hand, where a normal day with no lag is about 5-7 seconds, with the lag a day can last 5 minutes, it is that bad I believe you. But I played the game on a machine with P3 and less spec than I have now and it ran fine. I never had those problems. The only problem I have had was that I never saw one train.
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Post by voyager on Jun 9, 2004 14:47:22 GMT -5
because your setting were not set to high.
If you set the setting to high, you get the lag is what I am saying.
I had no lag if I had the settings on medium or low before I upgraded the Ram. Just I want to see the exact details and everything when I play games. I probably will end up buying the new HP that has 2.5 Gig of ram soon though.
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Post by Ember on Jun 9, 2004 16:43:44 GMT -5
I was so excited when I bought this game, but I don't like it very much. I just can't seem to make the cities work. I would have BIG ass cities in Sim City3000 but this one is harder for some reason. I always end up with no money.
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Post by valderra on Jun 9, 2004 18:05:09 GMT -5
I was so excited when I bought this game, but I don't like it very much. I just can't seem to make the cities work. I would have BIG ass cities in Sim City3000 but this one is harder for some reason. I always end up with no money. My sentiments exactly. It was rather more difficult to build towns and oh well, I just prefer SC3000.
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Post by Speed on Jun 21, 2004 1:17:52 GMT -5
Check out the RUSH HOUR Expansion for Sim City 4. It makes things waaaay cooler!
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Post by valderra on Jun 21, 2004 10:42:05 GMT -5
Check out the RUSH HOUR Expansion for Sim City 4. It makes things waaaay cooler! Yeah... when screen shots came out, I thought it looked awesome. But I have gone off SC4 so unless I can get that EP really really cheap sometimes in the future, I am not going to bother.
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