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veryniceguy2002 · May 23, 2003, 07:38 AM

What the latest news on Simcity 4 for Mac? Has it released? How fast (or slow) it is on a G4?

calamar1 · May 23, 2003, 08:31 AM

Originally posted by veryniceguy2002:
What the latest news on Simcity 4 for Mac? Has it released? How fast (or slow) it is on a G4?

There was a preview on IMG last week discussing its performance. Apparently it actually runs well(1600x1200 on a G4/867/GeForce3) on a fairly low-spec system. A week or so ago, it went Final Candidate on Aspyr's web page.

More here. (not that i'm eagerly anticipating it or anything...)

itai195 · May 23, 2003, 01:46 PM

Last I saw, Aspyr's page had it listed as final candidate. Hopefully it will go gold sometime next week, and we'll have it within a week or two after that.

According to that review, performance sounds somewhat promising. The game runs like crap on my Athlon XP 1500+, but I only have a geforce2mx in that machine...

derekn · May 23, 2003, 02:18 PM

CompUSA.com has it's ship date listed as June 1st. They had Spearheads ship date listed as last Saturday I was able to pick it up in the store Wednesday. So hopefully their date is accurate with SC 4 too. It's one of the games I'm really looking forward to, especially after the horror and trauma of SC 3000. LOL

SteevAK · May 24, 2003, 03:05 AM

Apparently, it does bog down when the city gets bigger, but it doesn't seem like it will be as bad as SC3k (which was infamous for its bogging down).

derekn · May 24, 2003, 05:26 PM

I just don't want my city turning into ice cubes, even if it is temporary. LOL Got my fingers crossed since the people that ported Ghost Recon (which is GREAT) are also doing SC 4.

beb · May 24, 2003, 11:39 PM

I'm just glad that it'll run on OS X.

mac freak · May 25, 2003, 11:20 AM

Originally posted by derekn:
I just don't want my city turning into ice cubes, even if it is temporary. LOL

In SC4, they just turn into flat planes (when loading) -- worse if you ask me! Also, unless Aspyr does some intense optimization, the game will run like crap on 95% of Macs... the PC version is not optimized and chugs along on anything under 2.4 GHz with lesser video hardware than a GF4 Ti or 9700 Pro (or a GFFX, which no one actually has).

sleepyrenderer · May 25, 2003, 01:15 PM

Originally posted by mac freak:
In SC4, they just turn into flat planes (when loading) -- worse if you ask me! Also, unless Aspyr does some intense optimization, the game will run like crap on 95% of Macs... the PC version is not optimized and chugs along on anything under 2.4 GHz with lesser video hardware than a GF4 Ti or 9700 Pro (or a GFFX, which no one actually has).

It actually runs fine on most systems until your city gets to a medium size... then it quickly deteriorates to choppy hell unless you have a very hefty CPU. I'd imagine it will be the same w/ the Mac version -- runs great until you build up a bit.

SteevAK · May 25, 2003, 03:16 PM

Anybody know if it's SMP enabled? I guess I could go look it up myself...

<20 min later>

Didn't find anything. Though SC4 has already gotten 2 updates which seem to have fixed a lot of little bugs and optimized performance some.

Duo · May 25, 2003, 10:55 PM

Originally posted by SteevAK:
Anybody know if it's SMP enabled? I guess I could go look it up myself...

<20 min later>

Didn't find anything. Though SC4 has already gotten 2 updates which seem to have fixed a lot of little bugs and optimized performance some.

I hope it has smp, haven't found any info myself either.

Duo

javabeans · May 26, 2003, 07:18 PM

This is *the* game that I've been waiting for to get for my new 17" PB....hopefully it'll perform well.