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    Sim City 4

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by 1201NFTW, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. 1201NFTW

    1201NFTW Notebook Evangelist

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    for some reason this old game hits the hardware fairly hard. lots of slowdown on high settings. maybe the 335m isn't turned on being such an old game
     
    1201NFTW, Sep 16, 2010
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    Most likely this game engine was not ever written with GPU in mind.
    I would suspect Civilization and Empire Earth might experience similar issues.

    Game is CPU intensive.
     
    discothan, Sep 16, 2010
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    SIM City should run on these machines. Heck that game ran well on far lesser singe core processors 7 years ago.



    I think all the M11X specs are far better than those and those are not the Minimum requirements. I think you should try forcing the M11X to use the 3D card......

    "SimCity 4" System Requirements
     
    kingfrog, Sep 16, 2010
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    i have a feeling the game is so light on the hardware that the m11x doesn't feel the need to activate the 335m.
     
    1201NFTW, Sep 16, 2010
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    Have you tried forcing the GPU to be used? In the nvidia settings try setting the global settings to nividia instead of integrated graphics.
     
    m11xuser9999, Sep 16, 2010
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    it plays fairly good on M11x-R1
     
    varnado, Sep 16, 2010
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