Low performance

[gabrielbyrnei]

Well, im getting very very slow playing speed on Big city tiles, even with low populations of 100k, things get really slow.

This is on an AMD Athlon II 630 (3.0Ghz) and 2 Gb of DDR2 ram. Ive tested on both, Windows 7 and Linux. Even leaving my plugins folder with only 800 Mb, playing big tiles is impossible.

[WC_EEND]

is that a dual-core CPU? If so, try restricting the game to only one core . What is graphics card do you have in your computer?
How does the game cope with large cities without any plugins whatsoever?

[gabrielbyrnei]

In fact its a quad-core, i have an ATI HD2600 XT as graphics card.

I have to try it with absolutely no plugins. Least ive tried is only residential and NAM in my plugins.

[gabrielbyrnei]

Just tried with ONLY NAM on my plugins, it was a bit faster, but nowhere near of what im expecting. Even a mere 100k population makes it sluggish simulation

[westamastaflash]

Try turning shadows to Low - this seems to be the number one cause of slow games. Once I changed shadows to low my games are faster than ever (Win7 x64, Core2Duo e8400 OC3.6ghz, 6GB ram). With shadows on, the speed is terribly slow. I also run the game in a window with the following command line options:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -intro:off -audio:off -w -CustomResolution:enabled -r1440x900x32

[gabrielbyrnei]

Yup, i have shadows lowest possible. Tried EVERYTHNG on low, including 16 Bit colours, but still very very slow.

[westamastaflash]

Do you have enough HDD space for your swapfile? Also, try turning off "real-time" antivirus protection as sometimes scans are slow.

Microsoft's Sysinternals Process Explorer can help view your CPU usage while the game is running (in a window). See if something else may be conflicting...

[gabrielbyrnei]

This happens on Linux as on Windows aswell. Linux ofcouse doesent use any kind of antivirus,spyware,etc. Swap file on Linux is 2Gb's and Windows 7's swapfile is 2Gb's aswell.