SimCity 4 on Fusion 2

dukebound85 · Dec 21, 2008

Does anyone know if Sim City 4 will run well on Fusion 2? My computer has an 8800gt so its not integrated graphics. Just in case the 3d support in Fusion 2 needed a somewhat powerful card to use 3d effects

I ask as Sim City 4 for the PC is loads cheaper than it is for the Mac

craigc_ · Dec 22, 2008

I would run Sim City 4 through boot camp for optimal performance. If Fusion is a must then I'm not too sure how well it will run.

adit · Dec 24, 2008

dukebound85 said:
Does anyone know if Sim City 4 will run well on Fusion 2? My computer has an 8800gt so its not integrated graphics. Just in case the 3d support in Fusion 2 needed a somewhat powerful card to use 3d effects

I ask as Sim City 4 for the PC is loads cheaper than it is for the Mac

I installed simcity 4 using fusion the other day. I have not had a chance to play the game properly yet. The 5 mins I used it for after installation, everything seemed to run fine for me.

I dont think it should be a problem.

I installed it on an MBP 2.4GHZ with 256mb VRAM. I have allocated fusion with only 512MB of my 2GB RAM.

Hope this helps.

dukebound85 · Dec 25, 2008

cc2k4 said:
I would run Sim City 4 through boot camp for optimal performance. If Fusion is a must then I'm not too sure how well it will run.

well i dont have a bootcamp partition, only installed windows via fusion

adit said:
I installed simcity 4 using fusion the other day. I have not had a chance to play the game properly yet. The 5 mins I used it for after installation, everything seemed to run fine for me.

I dont think it should be a problem.

I installed it on an MBP 2.4GHZ with 256mb VRAM. I have allocated fusion with only 512MB of my 2GB RAM.

Hope this helps.

that does. thanks for giving your take

dukebound85 · Jan 2, 2009

adit said:
I installed simcity 4 using fusion the other day. I have not had a chance to play the game properly yet. The 5 mins I used it for after installation, everything seemed to run fine for me.

I dont think it should be a problem.

I installed it on an MBP 2.4GHZ with 256mb VRAM. I have allocated fusion with only 512MB of my 2GB RAM.

Hope this helps.

ok i installed it and everything is choopy. any ideas on how to make it run better?

i have 1.5 gigs and 2 processors dedicated to fusion. also have an 8800gt

ndriver182 · Dec 17, 2009

dukebound85 said:
ok i installed it and everything is choopy. any ideas on how to make it run better?

i have 1.5 gigs and 2 processors dedicated to fusion. also have an 8800gt

I know I just revived this from the dead, but I'm installing a bunch of old PC games on my new 27" iMac i7 and am having the same problem on very basic cities. I would think that this system should be able to easily handle SC4. The menus and everything are quick and fluid, but the game itself is laggy/choppy.

Any ideas?

crazzyeddie · Dec 17, 2009

I would try only dedicating 1 processor to Fusion, as older games will behave better that way.

I've had problems with SC4 on Windows natively, on a real PC. It doesn't draw some textures right using the 3D renderer, and the software renderer is missing details and is laggy (even on a 3ghz machine).

ayeying · Dec 17, 2009

There's also the problem that Fusion 2 doesn't have the advanced graphics capabilities as Fusion 3. Furthermore, it doesn't matter what graphics card you have, the software have to translate the DirectX information into OpenGL then render it on the OSX side.

Yeah, a better card helps, but you'll still be playing at a fraction of the performance as you would under native boot.

ndriver182 · Dec 17, 2009

I should've noted that I'm using Bootcamp.

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