Sim City 4

Dempsey · Post by **Dempsey** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 3:57 pm

I just bought a copy of Sim City 4 for 12 bucks at Cash Converters. What a great store!

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:11 pm

damn i wish i hadda come across something like that... seing as i prefer to own most of my games.... some interesting new tweaks in SC4

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:21 pm

Too bad it was a giant resource whore (read: inefficient).

Ghost [PX] · Post by **Ghost [PX]** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:23 pm

So what I'm getting from this post was that SimCity 4 was badly optimized.....

Hey, I already knew that!

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:27 pm

it was horribly optimized but for the game play itself i love it (dont use the hardware render it slows things down for some reason....)

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:36 pm

It's always a bad sign when the hardware render slows down the game. I will agree about the game play, I loved sim city 2000, Me and Bob once played it so much that he puked.

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:40 pm

ya its a really bad sign... hoping that the new expansion forthcoming will fix a lot of the issues...
Kal was actually addicted to a game? was he any good at it? :wink:

Ghost [PX] · Post by **Ghost [PX]** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:40 pm

Bob is a SimCity-playing-gut-spewing machine!

I enjoyed the gameplay briefly but couldnt commit myself to raising and nurturing a cuty when I could destroy it and make funny shapes in the ground...

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:43 pm

Ghost your an odd odd person... just thought i'd let you know

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:45 pm

That's great Ghost, I laughed my ass off

. I am going to have to remember that quote for later.

Ghost [PX] · Post by **Ghost [PX]** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:45 pm

Your opinion has been noted and duly filed. You have now been entered into "The Book" under the section marked "People that Know Too Much".

Dempsey · Post by **Dempsey** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 11:26 pm

The rendering engine is quite inefficient but its also the fact that the computer has to track all the stats and shit from the buildings, cars, people, etc that really bogs it down, obviouly with larger cities. Also the shear amount of polys a huge city would generate would probably have something to do with it. I think in PC Gamer they mentioned that ATI Radeons weren't even supported at first. Some "hardware deficientcy". Probably a bribe from Nvidia. I have all the Sim Citys, including the 3000 expansion pak