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have way more than the system requirements.

I have a computer with a gig of ram, an intel celeron processor 2200Mhz, a visiontek radeon 9600 video card, and more than enough hard drive space.

I don't think there's that much difference between deluxe edition and regular SC4, even when I had regular SC4, it didn't fly through the graphics like I thought it would, neither does it with this version, even though my video card was 2 years older than when SC4 came out! Here's my video card

http://www.visiontek.com/products/cards ... 600XT.html

If anyone has the deluxe edition in which you get smooth lagless fast graphic rendering and animation, could you post your system specs here?

Here is what most sites say you need to have to run the game at highest detail settings:

Operating System: Windows XP Pro*
CPU Speed: Pentium 4 2.0 GHZ/AMD Athlon 2100+
RAM (memory): 256 (some lag)/512 (no lag)/1 GB (incredible)
CD/DVD Rom Speed: 8x
Video Card: 64 MB will work, 128 recommended (geforce4/newest ATI Radeon)
Sound Card: 5.1 compatible sound cards. Get that surrond sound!*2
Hard Drive Space: 1+ GB

So you really shouldn't be having too many problems with it, the only thing I can think would be that Celerons have less on-chip cache than a pentium, so you could try just "high" instead of "very high" graphics settings. I get perfect performance on my PentiumD-3GHZ/Geforce8600GTS machine, but that is way overkill if all you want to do is play simcity 4.

What letters come after the 9600? Is it a GT, SE, SEC? It makes a big difference, as SE is sometimes referred to as Shit Edition. Also, there's a big difference between the Celeron and Pentiums, enough that just comparing clock speed isn't good enough. I wish Intel and AMD would start using FLOPS and MIPS when advertising their chips .

Do you have any mods installed?

My SC4 runs slow when I have over a gig of buildings from simtropolis.com installed.

FedRebel wrote:Do you have any mods installed?

My SC4 runs slow when I have over a gig of buildings from simtropolis.com installed.

No, I don't have any mods installed.

Resinence wrote:Here is what most sites say you need to have to run the game at highest detail settings:

Operating System: Windows XP Pro*
CPU Speed: Pentium 4 2.0 GHZ/AMD Athlon 2100+
RAM (memory): 256 (some lag)/512 (no lag)/1 GB (incredible)
CD/DVD Rom Speed: 8x
Video Card: 64 MB will work, 128 recommended (geforce4/newest ATI Radeon)
Sound Card: 5.1 compatible sound cards. Get that surrond sound!*2
Hard Drive Space: 1+ GB

So you really shouldn't be having too many problems with it, the only thing I can think would be that Celerons have less on-chip cache than a pentium, so you could try just "high" instead of "very high" graphics settings. I get perfect performance on my PentiumD-3GHZ/Geforce8600GTS machine, but that is way overkill if all you want to do is play simcity 4.

And are those specs you posted what your system has, or near it? How much RAM do you have? I have a gig and it runs crappy for some reason. I think I will benchmark my system as well to see if it is running like it should.

Braedley wrote:What letters come after the 9600? Is it a GT, SE, SEC? It makes a big difference, as SE is sometimes referred to as Shit Edition. Also, there's a big difference between the Celeron and Pentiums, enough that just comparing clock speed isn't good enough. I wish Intel and AMD would start using FLOPS and MIPS when advertising their chips .

I'm not really sure, I thought that version with the link I posted is the only one there is. I think I got rid of the box it came in, in device manager it says under
display adapters

1. Radeon 9600 Pro Family (Microsoft Corporation)
2. Radeon 9600 Pro SEC family (Microsoft Corporation)

It looks like you have the stock drivers installed, which are slow. Go install ATI's latest drivers and see if you get a performance boost.

phongn wrote:It looks like you have the stock drivers installed, which are slow. Go install ATI's latest drivers and see if you get a performance boost.

I had them installed before, before I reinstalled windows XP, it was still the same.

Braedley wrote:What letters come after the 9600? Is it a GT, SE, SEC? It makes a big difference, as SE is sometimes referred to as Shit Edition. Also, there's a big difference between the Celeron and Pentiums, enough that just comparing clock speed isn't good enough. I wish Intel and AMD would start using FLOPS and MIPS when advertising their chips .

But I have four times the clock speed required to run it, with that speed difference it should burn rubber, shouldn't it, even if a celeron isn't as good as a pentium 4.[/b][/i]

Shrykull wrote:But I have four times the clock speed required to run it, with that speed difference it should burn rubber, shouldn't it, even if a celeron isn't as good as a pentium 4.[/b][/i]

No, becuase your GPU is the limiting factor. In addition, the game's AI is extremely CPU hungry - my old Athlon XP 1.5GHz (which probably outperforms your Celeron 2.2GHz) had trouble keeping up as well.

I hate to tell you this, but your video card isn't as good as you would expect it to be. I should have been able to blaze through the original Halo with medium or high settings and a resolution of at least 800x600, but I would still BSOD on the lowest settings and 640x480 when I was on my 9600 SEC.

I want to build a new computer, but am waiting for PCI express 2.0 motherboards.