[Kazan]

Anyone else here play SC4? i just picked up a copy of a few weeks ago

[Colonol Dekker]

Is that the one with Floods and UFOs?

If so, It is Excellente; Muoi Bueno...........I dont speak a jot of espaniola but i still Rate SC4 9 out of 10 zods......

[Kazan]

Sim City 2k had floods and UFOs.... i never played SC3k but i imagine it does too.... that's a common feature of all the SC games (i think i have disasters turned off in sc4 if they exist at all)

[aldo_14]

Doesn't work on newer nVidia cards, natch; I had to return it

I remember it being fun even in my brief software-mode dalliance with it, though. 

[Kazan]

doesn't work with nvidia cards? wtf? seriously? why?

[aldo_14]

doesn't work with nvidia cards? wtf? seriously? why?

Offhand, they didn't bother their arse patching it (after budget release) to cope with the  post-4 range of cards.  I think there were some minor ATi issues too, not sure on that count.

(never tried the EP, I just had the plain budget game, so maybe the EP included the patch in typical EA style)

On the plus side, I accidentally forgot to return the 4th CD, so at least it cost them one sales.

[Kazan]

i think rush hour probably fixed that problem.. i'm playing with a radeon 9600SE though (even on my 1GB ram system it can get pretty slow.. lot of simulation going on)

[Mefustae]

Downloaded .ISOs for SC4 Deluxe [SC4 & Rush-hour], not a bad game. Ran rather well on my Gf4 4200, although... while it is fun to have a bustling commercial and residential city supported by a heavily industrialised city and agricultural city, it does get old after a while.

[Turambar]

SC4 runs on a 6800GT.

[Axem]

I'm a sucker for SimCity games. It doesn't run too bad on my less than average machine (AMD2600, Radeon 9550, 512MB), but I've never gotten any real big cities. Just a quite a few smaller ones.

[Kazan]

i have a 4x4 grid of 16km x 16km cities (3 of which are occupied) with terrain generated off a USGS heightmap of the seattle region

i am having traffic problems in my main city right now

[aldo_14]

hmmm

Really tempted to try SC4 again, there's nothing quite like it, especially as reviews hint CivCity is a bit gash.

[Sandwich]

SC4 has always entertained me up to a certain point. Rush Hour was one of the best expansion packs ever, however.

[Bob-san]

It doesn't work with my FX5200 with 128mb of VRAM. I have 512mb of RAM and a 2ghz celeron processor. I get a very bad effect in Rush Hour where the cars are turned green when driving behind buildings.

[Flipside]

hmmm

Really tempted to try SC4 again, there's nothing quite like it, especially as reviews hint CivCity is a bit gash.

Got it. It's ok, with some interesting ideas, but not nearly the depth you get with the likes of Caesar or Children of the Nile. Half the fun of those games is doing the logistics blancing required to keep everyone happy, CivCity sort of all happens in a rush, it looks pretty, but it just lacks longevity in some way, not lack of atmosphere, it's very 'Roman' in style, but just something that appeals to me with Pharoah and others of their type. It's as though they've tried to make a high-adrenaline city-builder, which sort of defeats the point.

[aldo_14]

hmmm

Really tempted to try SC4 again, there's nothing quite like it, especially as reviews hint CivCity is a bit gash.

Got it. It's ok, with some interesting ideas, but not nearly the depth you get with the likes of Caesar or Children of the Nile. Half the fun of those games is doing the logistics blancing required to keep everyone happy, CivCity sort of all happens in a rush, it looks pretty, but it just lacks longevity in some way, not lack of atmosphere, it's very 'Roman' in style, but just something that appeals to me with Pharoah and others of their type. It's as though they've tried to make a high-adrenaline city-builder, which sort of defeats the point.

I thought you said Children of the Nile wasn't especially good or deep compared to the Pharoah games?

[Flipside]

COtN isn't as good as Pharoah, it hasn't got the same diversity, it's still an interesting game, my biggest complaint with it was the transformatin over to 3D Engine over the old Isometric one meant that you had a hell of a lot less 'going on' in your city, or when you did, you got jerky framerates. I'll admit that since I've got the new Graphics Card it's a lot more enjoyable, though it still lacks variety compared to its predecessor.