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**pam123** · 02-09-2003, 08:50 PM

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,57464,00.html

I was doing pretty well with this till I got to the bit about different hardware and the programs running on a pc.
The game should run on the minimum requirements and you should be able to max out the settings on the recommended.
Anything less and the game company in question hasn't been straight with you.
As for EA .....
I have never gotten anything back from EA within the 14 day return period that most stores allow. It's a meaningless solution.
I haven't bought SimCity4 but if I had I'd be wishing I could afford a good lawyer.

wolfie · 02-09-2003, 09:04 PM

wonder what vid card they were using

wolfie

**pam123** · 02-09-2003, 09:16 PM

Geforce FX 5800 !

What else would match the - imaginary- requirements?

Big Weapons · 02-09-2003, 09:33 PM

Is 1.5GHz really considered high performance nowadays? I have a 2.4 and I still think of it as mid-high end. A 1.5 is like.. average. I'm sure they have a video memory requirement on the box also. That article seems to try to avoid that issue.

wolfie · 02-09-2003, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by pam123
Geforce FX 5800 !

What else would match the - imaginary- requirements?

true

wolfie

**pam123** · 02-09-2003, 09:51 PM

In no way is a 2.4 system anything other than highend and 1.5 is 700MHz above the average.
I ran my 1.4GHz comp through the pcpitstop test to find out where it stood and got the 92nd percentile.
Face it BW, you're not average.
They're not avoiding the video card issue, in jounalism land the fact was dropped because it met spec. This is the concentrate on 2 facts at a time mindset. The video is taken as given. Annoying if you're a techie but not an evasion.

TimPoet · 02-09-2003, 10:03 PM

That's right, the folks who come to this Forum are not mere mortals, you know.

RenegadeKing · 02-09-2003, 10:52 PM

I think 1ghz is low end nowadays..

reboot · 02-10-2003, 10:11 AM

Then I'm in the basement with a PIII 600

Alienware_Dude · 02-10-2003, 10:43 AM

Maybe his system was a Dell?

Spyda · 02-10-2003, 12:22 PM

good job i dont like sim city

and for the system thing, i consider my brothers PC to be about average as PCs go, PIII 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, 64MB GF2 MX400.

loves that my system is considered 'very high end'
also loves that my PC is in the 98th percentile on PC ptistop for RAM and HDD and 100 for Processor, graphics card said N/A

avx · 02-10-2003, 01:57 PM

I never really understood SIMCITY, it was also very boring IMO, it was one of those games you could only play for 20 mins when there was nothing bettter to do, and it would still take you like 2 years to get anything good going....and those people, god I hated them, so annoying...

but thats just my opinion

**Force Flow** · 02-10-2003, 02:26 PM

I played one of the old school versions of SIM city a few years back. I got prety bored with it. Didn't have the same excitement as AOE did.

CMT · 02-10-2003, 03:31 PM

No Folks low end is me Amd 300Mhz I still play some games really small one lol

**pam123** · 02-10-2003, 04:20 PM

PCGamer's recommended specs for SimCity4: P3 1GHz, 256mb ram, 32mb 3D card.
It has slowdowns even when played on a P4 with a Geforce3, as the reviewer did.
It's required specs are P3 500MHz, 128mb ram, 16mb 3D card.
Are you really supposed to belive it will play on that?

Spyda · 02-10-2003, 05:03 PM

did you say this was an EA game?

i have had some EA games with reccomended specs that have been too far off the actual requirements.

namely F1 2000 and F1 2001, these games required 300Mhz Processor, 128MB RAM and 16MB graphics. on my brothers PIII 1Ghz, mentioned above, it is so blindingly slow and jerky its just unplayable.
I havent trusted EAs requirements for a few years now

Blakhart · 02-10-2003, 05:31 PM

This should tell you what? Ok, the sims are lame.... there, I said it.

**pam123** · 02-10-2003, 06:51 PM

Yep.
EA is the publisher and the developer is Maxis.

bosco · 02-10-2003, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by CMT
No Folks low end is me Amd 300Mhz I still play some games really small one lol

Nope. I'm running a 266Mhz PII.

But i'm about to piece together a 500Mhz Celeron. WooHoo. Blazing
I can still play Unreal Gold on the 266 though. Not too bad.

Surge1243 · 02-10-2003, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by avx487
I never really understood SIMCITY, it was also very boring IMO, it was one of those games you could only play for 20 mins

That's all I can play SimCity 4 for on my computer, then it's lock-up, crash to the desktop, give a big groan for not saving, and shoving it back into the drawer.

Spyda · 02-11-2003, 03:10 AM

sounds like its a **** game really

whr2206 · 02-14-2003, 09:57 PM

yeah.. I got the game the day it came out. I had double the minimum requirements so I thought.. eh It could run it i guess? But boy was a i wrong... it takes like 3-4 minutes just to load... then when you get into the city if a disaster occurs it takes 2 mitues to zoom down to where the action is... and after my city got past 20k everything started drag along... I think the minimum requirements were a little misleading I guess you could say. In my opinion at least....

RenegadeKing · 02-14-2003, 10:04 PM

Someone in school yesterday was telling me about how slow it runs on his 1 ghz computer. Because I had read this thread I was able to tell him that it was just the game and not his computer.

Fuze · 02-15-2003, 04:50 PM

I think average PC nowadays is 733 or thereabouts personally. The average person doesn't go overboard and upgrade CPU every 400 mhz.

Spyda · 02-16-2003, 03:26 AM

i upgraded every 1400Mhz. so that means my next one will have to wait till 4 or 5Ghz. oooh long way off

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pam123 Computing Professor Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 11,718	Oh, really... http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,57464,00.html I was doing pretty well with this till I got to the bit about different hardware and the programs running on a pc. The game should run on the minimum requirements and you should be able to max out the settings on the recommended. Anything less and the game company in question hasn't been straight with you. As for EA ..... I have never gotten anything back from EA within the 14 day return period that most stores allow. It's a meaningless solution. I haven't bought SimCity4 but if I had I'd be wishing I could afford a good lawyer. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Asus M4A77D, 64 X2 6000+, 4 GB Corsair DDR2 800 ram, Radeon 5770.

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wolfie Member (11 bit) Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Brooklyn Park,Minn. Posts: 1,864	wonder what vid card they were using wolfie Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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pam123 Computing Professor Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 11,718	Geforce FX 5800 ! What else would match the - imaginary- requirements? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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Big Weapons Member (9 bit) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Milpitas, CA Posts: 428	Is 1.5GHz really considered high performance nowadays? I have a 2.4 and I still think of it as mid-high end. A 1.5 is like.. average. I'm sure they have a video memory requirement on the box also. That article seems to try to avoid that issue. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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pam123 Computing Professor Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 11,718	In no way is a 2.4 system anything other than highend and 1.5 is 700MHz above the average. I ran my 1.4GHz comp through the pcpitstop test to find out where it stood and got the 92nd percentile. Face it BW, you're not average. They're not avoiding the video card issue, in jounalism land the fact was dropped because it met spec. This is the concentrate on 2 facts at a time mindset. The video is taken as given. Annoying if you're a techie but not an evasion. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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pam123 Computing Professor Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 11,718	PCGamer's recommended specs for SimCity4: P3 1GHz, 256mb ram, 32mb 3D card. It has slowdowns even when played on a P4 with a Geforce3, as the reviewer did. It's required specs are P3 500MHz, 128mb ram, 16mb 3D card. Are you really supposed to belive it will play on that? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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Spyda snowboarder Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: UK Posts: 2,462	did you say this was an EA game? i have had some EA games with reccomended specs that have been too far off the actual requirements. namely F1 2000 and F1 2001, these games required 300Mhz Processor, 128MB RAM and 16MB graphics. on my brothers PIII 1Ghz, mentioned above, it is so blindingly slow and jerky its just unplayable. I havent trusted EAs requirements for a few years now Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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pam123 Computing Professor Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 11,718	Yep. EA is the publisher and the developer is Maxis. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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Spyda snowboarder Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: UK Posts: 2,462	sounds like its a **** game really Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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whr2206 Member (11 bit) Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roanoke,VA Posts: 1,311	yeah.. I got the game the day it came out. I had double the minimum requirements so I thought.. eh It could run it i guess? But boy was a i wrong... it takes like 3-4 minutes just to load... then when you get into the city if a disaster occurs it takes 2 mitues to zoom down to where the action is... and after my city got past 20k everything started drag along... I think the minimum requirements were a little misleading I guess you could say. In my opinion at least.... Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

02-14-2003, 10:04 PM	#23
RenegadeKing Member (11 bit) Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,487	Someone in school yesterday was telling me about how slow it runs on his 1 ghz computer. Because I had read this thread I was able to tell him that it was just the game and not his computer. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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Fuze Fly Eagles Fly Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 981	I think average PC nowadays is 733 or thereabouts personally. The average person doesn't go overboard and upgrade CPU every 400 mhz. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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Spyda snowboarder Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: UK Posts: 2,462	i upgraded every 1400Mhz. so that means my next one will have to wait till 4 or 5Ghz. oooh long way off Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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