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    Will I be able to run Sim City 4 on this?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Michael1980, Aug 30, 2005.

  1. Michael1980

    Michael1980 Notebook Consultant

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    Sony Vaio FS

    1.5 Celeron-M with 1mb cache
    Integrated Intel graphics
    512 Ram
    etc

    How well or bad will Sim City 4 run?
    Thanks
     
    Michael1980, Aug 30, 2005
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    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    From their site:

    * ** SimCity 4 CD required to play Rush Hour
    * Windows XP/Me/2000/98 (NT and 95 NOT supported)
    * Pentium III 500 MHz or equivalent
    * 128 MB RAM for Windows Me/2000/98; 256 MB RAM for Windows XP
    * 8x CD/DVD-ROM drive
    * 32 MB video card with DirectX 7.0 compatible driver
    * 1 GB hard drive space
    * DirectX 7.0 compatible sound card
    * Keyboard; Mouse

    Should run fine.
     
    coriolis, Aug 30, 2005
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    Does Sim City depend heavily on the graphics card or is it more like Civilization 3 where that is not that important?
     
    Michael1980, Aug 30, 2005
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    The bottleneck for games is always the graphics card, so you may not be able to play it at higher resolution.
     
    coriolis, Aug 30, 2005
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