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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition (c) Maxis Software Inc. / Electronic Arts. SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition includes the base game and the SimCity™ 4 Rush Hour expansion. In SimCity 4, you don’t just build your city, you breathe life into it. It’s been in the news for a little while that the latest operating system from Microsoft, Windows 10, prevents the disc version of SimCity 4 from running, by virtue. Installing Sims 1 Windows 10-Solution Found. Pandypink Posts. Which also use SafeDisc although it's important to note that Windows 10/KB3086255 will only block the CD version of SimCity 4 since the download versions from Origin, GOG, and Steam do not include SafeDisc. Games that do have a download version will work while the CD version will.

(download instructions found in .zip file)

SimCity 4 Game Information

Game Name: SimCity 4
Genre: Construction and management simulation, city-building
Developer(s): Maxis
Publisher(s): Electronic Arts, Aspyr Media

Platform(s): Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Release date(s): January 14, 2003
PEGI Rating: 3+
Mode(s): Single-player

SimCity 4 System Requirements (PC)

CPU: Pentium III or Athlon equivalent
CPU Speed: 500 MHz
RAM: 128 MB (256 MB for Windows XP/ME)
OS: Windows 98/2000/XP (NT & 95 not supported)
Video Card: Direct3D 32 MB DirectX 7 capable video card
DirectX version: 7.0
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 1.6 GB plus additional space for saved games, Windows swap file and DirectX 7 install
CD-ROM: 4X speed CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some CD/DVD-ROM, CD/DVD-RW and virtual drives.)

SimCity 4 PC Download

Choose another SimCity game to download:

Why not play some other city simulators, such as Banished, Civilization IV,Tropico 4and Cities XXL. Also download and play Medieval Engineers, which isn’t a city builder but involves siege.

SimCity 4 Screenshots

Key points

SC4Launcher by Keiron Morris and NAM: Network Addon Mod are both highly recommended.

Enable most fixes by using the SC4Launcher/Combined launch options, and then enabling Borderless fullscreen windowed.

Performance issues on more modern systems.

The OS X port suffers many problems.

General information

sc4modds - full list of mods from /r/SimCity community.

/r/simcity4

SimCity 4 on the SimCity Wiki

Simtropolis Forum

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

• 1Availability
• 2Essential improvements
  • 2.4Launching game on modern systems
• 3Game data
• 4Video settings
• 5Input settings
• 6Audio settings
• 7Issues unresolved
• 8Issues fixed
• 9Other information
• 10Mods

Availability[edit]

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

It is recommended to only use Deluxe version which includes the Rush Hour expansion pack, as this has the highest compatibility with mods and other fixes.^[5]

Retail keys can be redeemed on Origin.^[6][7]

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

EA hosts one all-encompassing update that includes all patch fixes for all retail versions of the game (digital distribution versions have their own patches).

• Patch v1.1.640 (february 2004) is still downloadable from here.

Large Address Aware[edit]

Improves stability on systems with at least 3GB RAM by allowing the application to use more than 2GB RAM.

Skip intro videos[edit]

Launching game on modern systems[edit]

SC4Launcher[edit]

Launcher utility that can be installed.

Combines autosaving (customisable intervals), renderer choice (DirectX, Software, OpenGL), CPU priority, single CPU affinity, widescreen resolution, windowed, borderless-windowed, skip intro videos, simple mod manager and an ATI/AMD graphics card fix into a single launcher program.

Combined launch options[edit]

Single line of code to be added to 'Target' field of the shortcut or to Steam launch options.

Combines widescreen resolution, windowed, single CPU affinity, skip intro videos.

NAM: Network Addon Mod[edit]

Extensively reworks of the road system, improves traffic simulator, path-finding and performance.

Compatible with all available versions, since Origin version is now patched.^[8]

SC4Fix: Third Party Patches[edit]

A third party DLL that fixes hard-coded bugs and crashes like the infamous 'prop pox' bug^[9] and crashes when hovering NAM puzzle pieces.

Helps revive and repair cities affected by the 'prop pox' bug.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

Save game data location[edit]

Beware of issues when using multiple duplicate cities.

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video settings[edit]

Widescreen resolution[edit]

The GOG.com version has this done automatically.

Simcity For Windows 10 Pc

Windowed[edit]

Input settings[edit]

Remapping[edit]

Hotkeys and similar key bindings are stored in plaintext KEYCFG files in simcity_1.dat. A tool like Ilive Reader must be used to edit these.

Audio settings[edit]

Localizations

Language choice determines display language and which side of the road cars drive on.

The language can be forced if needed but only if the release being used includes that language (see Change language).

Issues unresolved[edit]

OS X and Intel CPU major flaws[edit]

Major flaws when operating on computers by Apple using Intel processors.

Aspyr released a beta of a patch to fix the problems in 2007, but the patch was never finalized and many bugs remain. Some have a serious impact on playability, including frequent crashes if a city exceeds 95,000 population, flawed display of the water surface, frequent blurring or replacement of objects with random other objects, and an inability to significantly accelerate the vehicle in driving mode that prevents many gameplay features from being unlocked.

OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) can render the game completely unplayable, even with the 2007 or 2014 patches. Running the Windows version in Wine or a Virtual Machine, or the original Mac release on a PowerPC Mac generally gives a more convenient and reliable result.

Even if the game does function properly in your machine, macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and later dropped support for 32-bit apps, of which SimCity 4's release is.^{[citation needed]} This therefore requires either an older version of the operating system to be installed in another partition of your hard drive, or the other workarounds as mentioned above if it is not capable of booting before that version of that operating system.

Integer overflow[edit]

An integer overflow bug is also present in the game. Under certain conditions, the Junior Sports Program and Parks and Recreation expense items will be a negative value - thus adding to the end of month balance instead of reducing it.

Issues fixed[edit]

Microsoft

Crashes on multi-core systems[edit]

Poor performance on modern systems[edit]

Running SimCity 4 on modern systems may result in large performance problems.

Industrial high-tech (I-H) missing jobs[edit]

Every I-H lot in the game does not offer high wealth jobs even though it creates a demand for high wealth residents.

Error message: 'Could not initialize graphics card'[edit]

SimCity 4 may crash on startup while reporting an error that claims that SimCity 4 was unable to initialize the graphics card, this may occur when using a hardware-accelerated rendering mode and a non-standard resolution. Changing the rendering mode to 'software' or changing the resolution to one of the supported resolutions (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200) should resolve this issue.

Details disappear when scrolling[edit]

On some AMD/ATI graphics cards users may find that scrolling the view will cause entities and details to temporarily disappear, including lots appearing completely empty until scrolling stops.

Alternatively, this can be resolved by installing the SC4Launcher Utility. Once installed, run the launcher and navigate to the 'Hardware & Audio' tab. Enable the option 'Force Draw on Scroll' by checking the tick box. This should resolve the issue completely and will remain fixed regardless of whether the game is started with this custom launcher or through running the normal SimCity 4 executable.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Duplicate cities moved[edit]

If two or more copies of the same city exist in the Region folder upon starting SimCity 4, the game uses only one version and the other city copies are either deleted or automatically moved to the Downloads folder.

SimCity 4 determines which file to use by sorting the city file names alphabetically and taking the first entry.

If you have copies of cities in your region folder, e.g. 'City - TEST 1.sc4' 'City - TEST 2.sc4', then only 'City - TEST 1.sc4' will be kept, and 'City - TEST 2.sc4'either get deleted or will be moved to the Downloads folder

Launch options[edit]

More parameters can be found via this link. Please be aware that if you use the -UserDir parameter, changes made in any ingame options may not be saved properly.

Change language[edit]

Language choice determines display language and which side of the road cars drive on.

Supported languages sets include:

• English and Spanish (North American version)
• UK English, French, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish (European version)
• Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese (Chinese version)
• Korean (Korean version)
• Japanese (Japanese version)
• Thai (Thailand version)

The availability of these sets depends on where the game was purchased, or where the purchaser's billing address states in the case of Digital Distribution.

Simcity 4 Windows 10 Login As Administrator

The game also recognises Czech, Hebrew, Greek and Russian, however no official translations were ever released and no community translations have been made, possibly due to lack of compatible font sets.

Mods[edit]

Mods may require dependencies.

Mod resources[edit]

Simtropolis - an extremely active modding community, hosts the ST/Exchange (SimTropolisEXchange).

SC4 Devotion - a very active modding community, hosts the LEX (Lot Exchange).

Thread listing all possible settings and customisations

Mod recommendations[edit]

sc4modds - full list of mods from /r/SimCity community.

Reddit thread - September 17, 2012

Reddit thread - January 22, 2012

Colossus Addon Mod (CAM)[edit]

A significant and popular mod developed by the community at SC4 Devotion.

Rewrites and improves how cities and regions grow by including more 'lots' or building transition stages, and increases population density.

Compatible with NAM: Network Addon Mod - when installing CAM, select 'no traffic simulator'.^[19]

Tools[edit]

• SimCity 4 Auto Saver - autosave program for SimCity 4 that will automatically save your game while you play, superseded by the SC4Launcher.
• SC4Terraformer - this is a widely used tool that can render custom maps designed and built within the program.
• SC4DataNode - this is a tool that checks your plugins folder, analyzes it, and tells you if any mods are missing dependencies.

System requirements[edit]

Notes

1. ↑SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10^[3] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[4]
2. ↑ ^2.02.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/24780/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (24780) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

1. ↑Aspyr: SimCity 4 now in duplication - Macworld - last accessed on 2016-7-23
2. ↑Inside Mac Games Review: SimCity 4 - last accessed on 2016-7-23
3. ↑Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
4. ↑Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
5. ↑http://community.simtropolis.com/topic/25419-faqs-and-download-links-for-nam-rhw-and-nwm/#entry685177
6. ↑http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/SimCity-4-Register-retail-copy-of-Sim-City-4-with-Origin/td-p/280612
7. ↑You can actually activate some Steam games on EA Origin - Steam Users' Forums
8. ↑PSA: SimCity 4 Deluxe is now safe to buy on Origin | SimTarkus - SimCity 4
9. ↑Prop Pox and Prop Theory
10. ↑Verified by User:Andytizer on March 12, 2013
11. ↑http://www.widescreengaming.net/wiki/SimCity_4
12. ↑PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up
13. ↑this tutorial
14. ↑ ^14.014.1http://community.simtropolis.com/topic/33931-how-to-configure-sc4-to-work-with-your-new-hardware/
15. ↑ ^15.015.1http://community.simtropolis.com/topic/28564-software-or-hardware/
16. ↑http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/22771-ih-missing-jobs-fix-update/
17. ↑http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Tutorial:Shortcut_Parameters
18. ↑http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=3961.0
19. ↑http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Colossus_Addon_Mod#NAM_.2B_CAM
20. ↑SimCity™ 4: Deluxe Edition - Aspyr