Bleeding Graphics

[samoyed1958]

Have recently gotten a better computer..
OS Name Windows 7 home premium and have all updates
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 MHz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Pro...
RAM 8 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
My  problem with running SC4 is when I am building the city it sometimes
starts to bleed ( see inclosed picture)
Any help in this would be great, have also right clicked on the SC4 icon and added this "C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -intro:off -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1200x32 -w -CPUCount:1
ok after spending hours reading some of the forums here I went and changed the 1200 in the custom resolution to 1920x1080 and so far no more glitches, but only played a short time, so we shall see. Guess I answered my own question............

[samoyed1958]

guess I fixed my own problem my changing the numbers.... silly me

[cruel]

hello i dont know if your still online but i have the same problem but i cant fix it

[WC_EEND]

what are your PC specs?

[GMT]

as for the opener, I had the same problem until I created a custom profile for the game in the nvidia control panel and did the following:

Anisotopic Filtering: Off
All Antialiasing Options: Off
Maximum pre-rendered frames: 0 (Leaving this at the suggested 3 caused me issues)
Multi-dispay/Mixed GPU acceleration: Single Display Performance mode (I have dual monitors so forcing this to singe helped)
Texture Filtering - Anisotropic: Off
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias: Clamp (This setting was also causing issues)
Texture Filtering - Quality: High Quality
Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization: On
Threaded Optimization: On
Triple Buffering: Off (This was an absolute requirement to have off)
Veritcal Sync: Force Off (This was also an absolute requirement to have turned off)

as for the other post, some system information would nice to know to see what might be the problem

[cruel]

  tnx 4 your help i think it will help me i have dual monitor 2 but 1 is always off..
i made a costum game profile whit the nvdia-configuration.. but now the game won't start anymore. and i chanche all settings back to default but it wont start (alt+ctrl+del >>>> processes shows the simcity.exe running) but game wont start and. and al programs starting crash. i reinstalled simcity already clear plugin folder but the vanilla game wond start   (the vanilla game was working perfect no bleading graphics)

[cruel]

pc specs
computer intel(r) core(tm)2quad cpu
Q6600 @2.40GHZ
2,40GHZ , 3,00GB
WINDOWS XP

NVDIA NFORCE NETWERKCONTROLLER

(REALTEK RTL8130/810X FAMILY FAST ETHERNET NIC (CODE 22)(is off idk why but that is not the problem i think)
geforce 9600 GT 512mb
irq 17
bus pci express 16

[WC_EEND]

when you uninstalled the game, dis you also delete all the registry values?

[cruel]

the uninstaller ask me 2 delete al maps and... i clickt yes or do you mean i have 2 delete som manually

[cruel]

oke i now manually delete the maxis map 2. do i have 2 doe somthing with my nvidia config delete a profile or somthing?

[WC_EEND]

Since you are from The Netherlands, could you PM me in Dutch as I have trouble understanding your English? (nothing personal, it's just not very clear)

[cruel]

lol yes sorry for that its a big mess!! and the vanilla game works fine right now ( i pm you )

[Shark7]

I had this same problem trying to run in 3D accelerated mode using a GeForce GTS-250.  Switched to software mode and the problem has resolved.  I'm thinking that the Nvidia graphics cards and SC4 don't get along so well....at least in hardware mode.

[Lowkee33]

I had similar problems (

(alt+ctrl+del >>>> processes shows the simcity.exe running) but game wont start

), and this was fixed by changing the way DirectX worked on my computer.  Had to run "dxdiag" from the command line and change DirectDraw/Acceleration settings in the Display tab.  My computer is "stupid" (NVidia nForce2 with an ATI graphics card), so this fix was probably just me.

~I can't disable the network adapter on this thing.  I pray it never needs a re-install.  Hopefully when SC5 comes out I'll just buy a new one~

[WC_EEND]

I had this same problem trying to run in 3D accelerated mode using a GeForce GTS-250.  Switched to software mode and the problem has resolved.  I'm thinking that the Nvidia graphics cards and SC4 don't get along so well....at least in hardware mode.

I've always had Nvidia cards (FX-5200, 7600GS, 9700M GT and 560Ti) and none of them ever gave me any issues in hardware mode.

[Shark7]

I had this same problem trying to run in 3D accelerated mode using a GeForce GTS-250.  Switched to software mode and the problem has resolved.  I'm thinking that the Nvidia graphics cards and SC4 don't get along so well....at least in hardware mode.

I've always had Nvidia cards (FX-5200, 7600GS, 9700M GT and 560Ti) and none of them ever gave me any issues in hardware mode.

Might have been a firmware issue...I can certainly give it another try in hardware mode and see if it still gives me problems.  Firmware was updated less than a week ago, so I know it is a newer version.

[Shark7]

After making it home for lunch, I reloaded SC4 in hardware mode and it seems to be working perfectly.  It was quite possibly a firmware issue after all.