Game requirements

[starchip]

Does enyone know the requirements for sim city 4?

[ManagerJosh]

I'm not sure even the system requirements are out yet. Primarily because the game is still in beta form.

It is safe to assume that the basic requirements you need the same as The Sims: Unleashed (except you don't need The Sims ;))

[Emidio]

I was thinking on this on the last days.... But i guess that it'll be just like ul too... :classic:

[starchip]

Thanx you two!:)

[FaeLuna]

When we find out for sure, I hope it'll be posted here so I can make sure to GET the requirements!! heehee! :p

[sam_lawrence]

P500MHz
16MB 3D accelerator

[Helén]

Yes that's the minimum Sam. I've read it somewhere.

But I think it was Mayorrick that told me (and he's one of the testers and behind many screenshots) that 700mhz, 128mb RAM and a good graphicscard is necessary. I have a GForce II 32 mb card - and I will do fine on that I believe.

On my original Sims it says WAY lower requirements for playing sims than any Simmaster recommends. There it says only 32 mb RAM - all Simmasters recommend a minimum of 128mb!!!!

Normally you double the requiremants that's on the pack if you're smart. :classic:

[starchip]

:)

[Helén]

Hey Starchip. I like that slogan of yours. Do you write a lot?? :) Maybe shortstories or such??

[starchip]

Its a hobby of mine thanks for noticing:)

[Helén]

What kind of stories are you writing?? Please tell more about it.

*hops onto a chair to listen*

[Helén]

Oh I know i doublepost now - but it's for the purpose of saying:

This sounds as it's start belonging under the Artforum!! So is their a way to let it have it's own thread over there?? That is if Starchip is so kind to share the stories with us. Which I certainly hope!! :classic:

[starchip]

Ok i'll call it nina stories!

[Helén]

Awwee how sweet of you!!!! :classic:

*hops down from the chair to give Starchip a big hug*

[FaeLuna]

Go look Nina, it's up, I was just there! :D

Back to system requirements... I think it's looking like IF we get a new computer we'll try to get at least 2ghz speed!! So hopefully after that we won't have to worry about being behind for another 5 years or so.... :p

[Helén]

Lol You can always hope! :classic: I've heard that they are developing like 3 ghz now.. :laugh: It IS crazy.
I'm gonna get 1,8 ghz anyway. Hopefully 2 ghz. if the price is right.

[Emidio]

WOAH! 3 ghz? The machine is like turbo or something? Now they just need to make a flying computer.... :laugh: :laugh:. I have 1 ghz on mine and i'm gonna change from 128 to 512 mb ram... i'm saving money :)

[Helén]

That would be a sight... :D watch out!! Flying puters in the air!!

:laugh::laugh:

[Emidio]

The main director of IBM said on the developing years of the computer:

"On the world, there'll be space for some 2 or 3 computers"

He said this beacause on that time, it was expensive and took a loooot of space!!!! Just on this forum we must have more than 20
!!! :laugh:

*hops on the flying puter*

[Helén]

That is true Lucas. He did actually say that. Lol

[golfer_bunny]

Graphics cards are becoming increasingly important in games these days.

[FaeLuna]

Does anyone know what's considered a few of the better graphics cards out there? I only know my friend is nuts about G-Force-something....

[Droz]

Radeon Pro 9700 (9000) and XTasy GeForce4 TI4600 (TI4400) are the big ones. (The ones in parenthesis are the "second best" by the manufacturer)

[Helén]

And they Cost!!!!!! There are really good graphics card with much better range of prices. I know NVidias Gforce are overall good. Then it's the prestanda. According to most ppl I will do real fine with my GForce 2 32 mb 3 D now even for Sim City 4.
The thing is that if yu are onto videoediting or playong those real tough flight games and such - then you need more. It depends what you are doing with your computer.
I would like to upgrade to GForce 4 64 mb something (there are some different ones) - but can't afford that too now. :)

[FaeLuna]

Eventually my hubby wants to get back into his art major stuff and work on video editing... and I want to make and edit little movies made with friends too... and then there's the fact we're hoping to get what's "current" as the best now, so it can last like 5-8 more years before we're out of date again! :P :D :whitekitty:

[ManagerJosh]

IF you want to do video editing and graphics, the Macintosh Computers are superior.

Regular day to day PC use would be the IBMs (PC Compatible). You can do video and graphics on them too, but it seems the Macintosh are always superior to the PCs.

[sam_lawrence]

That is 100% correct, Josh.
Mac's especially excell using Adobe Photoshop.

[Emidio]

I love Mac's Design!! They're way better than pcs! :laugh:

[sam_lawrence]

Good to see some people can still see through PC's. :p

[Helén]

I thought this was about gamerequirements?? I still want to know!!! For sure!!
Rick!! You've been playing SC4. what do we really need??

[sam_lawrence]

Well i would probably double the requirments if you wanted to run the game smoothly.

[Helén]

You should always do that. :classic:

[sam_lawrence]

Thats why even im upgrading soon.

[DarkMan]

i saw on one of the chat transcripts that it'll take 1 gig as of right now

[mvk_99]

I dont even know what i have. :(

[sam_lawrence]

And between 5 and 25 megs per region.

[Helén]

Yes. But that's Harddrive space you talking about. I want to know the minimum processor, RAM, and graphics requirements. I HAVE heard minimum 700 mhz processor, but I don't know how true that is. An on the last events noone has said anything either about it.

*sighes deeply* I want to know for sure...

[sam_lawrence]

500Mhz
64-128mb ram
32mb Video

But to run it perfectly you'd want atleast 1000Mhz, 128-256mb ram, and a 64mb videocard.

[FaeLuna]

1000Mhz is equal to 1Ghz... right? We're looking at trying to get a least a gig of hertz!! ;) We looked at some 1.5 Ghz speed processors the other day.... sigh....

[sam_lawrence]

Well you wouldnt need 1 Ghz, but you'd need something round there to run SC4 smoothly. I cant believe how fast processors have gotten just in the last few months - they're up to 2.5 Ghz arent they?

[FaeLuna]

I know it's 2 point SOMETHING by now.. we want to get the highest we can when we get our new computer, so it will last longer before being outdated!! Our current one was pretty good to last till now since we got it in 98 on sale for being discontinued... so it wasn't exactly top of the line THEN! :p

[sam_lawrence]

A month after we got ours it was practicaly out of date :| I guess thats just the way it is these days with such huge leaps in technology.

[FaeLuna]

Wow... of course, I didn't consider ours out of date at pentium 2 and 300 mhz processor... till my tech friend had to install Win XP on it and he said he's surprised it's able to run that operating system with only the amount of lag it has!! I figure when you can't use the current operating systems at the designed speeds.. that's bad... but the clincher was not being fast enough for Sims Unleashed!!!! :p I still feel like 5 years is a pretty good run for a computer... it's my first computer... my BABY!!!

[FaeLuna]

... how do YOU define if your computer IS out of date??!!

[Helén]

My old 486 still works. I can't go online on it - well I could if I installed win-95 on it but..... talk about lag ;) Out of plain working purpose, like plain documents and smaller editing, as well as simpler games it's just great and not at all out of date.
It depends entirerly what yo want to do with it. If you work with movies or music you need comp's with the tech for that. If you want to play games you need those specifics. If you need it as a workstation you need configurations for that. And so on. I have the lil problem I need to use it as a workstation as well as I want to play games on it. So I have to compromise a bit.
One day I hope I will have a comp where I switch HDD in a rack after what I want to do. One for work with special OS-configuration for that and one for games and so on. :classic:
But I wouldn't go for the very newest processor etc. It's way to much money. To lay on one genration behind is good enough and will last some years. That's why it's good when you can have someone help you or build the comp yourself. You just upgrade necessities. You don't need to switch CDR or floppy. Normally you don't have to change graphicscard or soundcard either, if their not way to old. Screen, key-board, mouse, tower - all those things is also for keep. Normally when you buy a new comp. all those things are included again and you get nothing fro the old one. It's a lot of sweet money to be saved there. :classic:

[PhilipTarbuck]

I am always saving for a new computer. And, also, a new printer. And . . . . . .

[lewdini]

out of date....when every or close to 3/4 of all newly released games and programs cannot be used on your com

[sam_lawrence]

Well its not exactly that bad. I really meant there were computers twice the speed of mine when mine WAS top of the range.

[lewdini]

but if u couldnt run most of the programmes that were released?

[Helén]

Time for a update here I believe. For some reason I always look for a thread already created for specific purposes. The amount of threads grows wildly and tips is easily "lost" if they're not on the first page with threads. I've found 2 threads announcing "I got it" for example. It's tempting to merge them, maybe I do. :laugh:

Anyway Here's the recommended computer configurations for Simcity 4:

Hardware:
Processor: Pentium III/AMD Athlon 500 mhz
Ram: 128 mb
HDD: 1 GB
Graphics: 16 Mb
3D-card: Direct 3D
Soundcard: Direct X 7,0 compatible
CD/DVD: Minimum 8x
And of course a keyboard and a mouse. :p

Software:
OS: Win 98/2000/ME/XP
Direct X 7,0
And of course the game itself.

Well where did I get this from??? I GOT IT!!!! So I simple took all requirements from the backside of my case. :classic:

[lewdini]

Nina seems to have developed a fondness for merging and splitting threads

[Helén]

Lew????

Well I've done nothing SO far. :p Go to staff forum and check. ;)

[lewdini]

I know but u seem to love doing it :p

[Helén]

So what?? I learn a lot on it as well. :p

[PhilipTarbuck]

From what I have read in three different forums that I visit, it is impossible to say what computer the game will run on. People will 'low grade' computers have said it works perfectly well on their computer. People with 'high grade' computers have said that it will not work on their computers. It works reasonably well on mine - an AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz; 512 MB of RAM; 60 GBs of Hard Disc and a GeForce 3 card with 64 MBs of memory. It also has a clapped out old keyboard which I knock the living daylights out of all day. I would think that the thing to do is just to try it.

[Helén]

True Philip. I will probably need more Ram pretty fast. Ram is essential. But you can't come around the minmum demands from the manufacturer. And that is something I didn't have at all. So I had to upgrade anyway. Also The m-boards for a AMD K6 II can't be used for Athlon at all. hence a new m-board, hence new ram as this demands DDR Ram and can't take SD RAm. Etecetera.

But Ram. I will for sure need more of that pretty fast. Just that I hadn't money for more right now. Have to wait with that.

[anikan]

i think its also depend on what type of map your are play
i you play on very big maps like me you need
a huge system with a lot of memory to play it with full detail
you need then 1 gb memory

so i mean p4 2.66ghz ,gforce4 4200 or more ,1ghz memory pc400

[Helén]

True. I will put on more RAM as soon as i cn. But for now - I'm broke. ;) I had to choose between this ram and a 64 mb graphics card or more ram.
So I figured it's always easier to put on ram, than suddenly change graphics card. This card is fast because it's ddr ram on it. so is my RAM.
Maximum Ram I can have is 3* 1 gb.. so... :classic:

[afropower234]

Remember you are in the "Game Requirements" post