On the Mac App Store! How long has it been there? I imagine everyone but me knew about it.
Here is my money Aspyr and thanks for ruining my life!
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OS X Simcity 4 Deluxe Edition!
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I just saw it myself. I remember it had several performance issues and bugs back in the day, I hope the App Store version is moderately updated -- as even with the bugs I'm interested in playing it again. Although from what I can recall it doesn't seem the version number has been bumped from whatever it was on discs, back in... '06, or whatever it was.
On the Mac App Store! How long has it been there? I imagine everyone but me knew about it.
Here is my money Aspyr and thanks for ruining my life!
Haha, you havent missed anything. Its only been on the store for a few hours, surprise!
We have been working on this re-release for months. Cleaned up a TON of old bugs, and really pushed on performance increases as well. You can now get a city up to 4-500k pop without any performance hitches.
We also completely scrapped the old fixed resolution option. The game now detects your machine's top 4 available native resolutions for your options. SimCity4 on an iMac at 2560x1440 is really something to see
I also hope this is a fixed version, or without the serious issues, at least. Downloading now.
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Haha, you havent missed anything. Its only been on the store for a few hours, surprise!
We have been working on this re-release for months. Cleaned up a TON of old bugs, and really pushed on performance increases as well. You can now get a city up to 4-500k pop without any performance hitches.
We also completely scrapped the old fixed resolution option. The game now detects your machine's top 4 available native resolutions for your options. SimCity4 on an iMac at 2560x1440 is really something to see
Blissful!
Thanks Blair!
Now, if you'll excuse me...
How can the system requirements be so high for a 12-year-old game?
The PC version requires à pentium III, 256 MB ram and a DX 8.1 card. The Mac version requires a C2D 2.2 GHz with 4GB Ram and a radeon HD 3870/Geforce 8800. How can it not run on, say, even a radeon HD 2XXX?
The PC version requires à pentium III, 256 MB ram and a DX 8.1 card. The Mac version requires a C2D 2.2 GHz with 4GB Ram and a radeon HD 3870/Geforce 8800. How can it not run on, say, even a radeon HD 2XXX?
@Aspyr-Blair
I have a boxed copy of this game. Is there some way for me to download the update without purchasing again?
Thanks
Andy
I have a boxed copy of this game. Is there some way for me to download the update without purchasing again?
Thanks
Andy
How can the system requirements be so high for a 12-year-old game?
The PC version requires à pentium III, 256 MB ram and a DX 8.1 card. The Mac version requires a C2D 2.2 GHz with 4GB Ram and a radeon HD 3870/Geforce 8800. How can it not run on, say, even a radeon HD 2XXX?
Because it is not a 12 year old game, it was just redone and released with significant changes to it including the mentioned display changes. It is also coded for a different operating system using a different graphics API.
I think if you send their support team an e-mail with a photo of the box and/or CD, they'll send you a code to get the update from their store.
Haha, you havent missed anything. Its only been on the store for a few hours, surprise!
I forgot to ask yesterday, will this be releasing on Steam also?
Having now sunk a few hours into it...
Performance of the graphics engine still isn't super, somewhat slow panning and whatnot. (late '09 iMac, 4850; not a beast by any means) It's perfectly playable though.
I haven't encountered in crashes yet, which is a rather huge step up from my experience with the boxed game.
No idea on if mods work, I wouldn't know how to go about installing them.
it's SimCity, it's not buggy (thus far) and it's on the App Store. <thumb>
Performance of the graphics engine still isn't super, somewhat slow panning and whatnot. (late '09 iMac, 4850; not a beast by any means) It's perfectly playable though.
I haven't encountered in crashes yet, which is a rather huge step up from my experience with the boxed game.
No idea on if mods work, I wouldn't know how to go about installing them.
it's SimCity, it's not buggy (thus far) and it's on the App Store. <thumb>
I emailed Aspyr but unfortunately they won't update the game.
Too bad, but it's understandable. It's $5 on Steam all the time, I'll get it then.
Mods go here: ~/Library/Containers/com.aspyr.simcity4.appstore/Data/Documents/SimCity 4/Plugins
To install NAM you have to use a tool like http://www.kekaosx.com/en/ to unpack the .exe
Yes, the Steam release will be in May!
To those who have the old version, apologies for not being able to supply you all with a key. The original boxed release was over a decade ago, and as you all know was coded for the PowerPC, a completely different architecture from what we have now. We spent months on the new compatibility and improvements. In short, this isnt a patch...but a completely new port. The best analogy I have is PS3 to PS4 or similar. Sure, some of the codework can be reused, but its actually a whole other effort to make the jump. I hope you will understand.
Thanks for all the support folks. We are super pumped for this release. My weekend was completely lost to this game. If you have a small child like I do...make sure they are good and fed before launching
To those who have the old version, apologies for not being able to supply you all with a key. The original boxed release was over a decade ago, and as you all know was coded for the PowerPC, a completely different architecture from what we have now. We spent months on the new compatibility and improvements. In short, this isnt a patch...but a completely new port. The best analogy I have is PS3 to PS4 or similar. Sure, some of the codework can be reused, but its actually a whole other effort to make the jump. I hope you will understand.
Thanks for all the support folks. We are super pumped for this release. My weekend was completely lost to this game. If you have a small child like I do...make sure they are good and fed before launching
How can the system requirements be so high for a 12-year-old game?
The PC version requires à pentium III, 256 MB ram and a DX 8.1 card. The Mac version requires a C2D 2.2 GHz with 4GB Ram and a radeon HD 3870/Geforce 8800. How can it not run on, say, even a radeon HD 2XXX?
Partly because those are the baseline specs for the modern machines available that run the game. Partly because the game is actually quite the hog. Once you get a big city going, that is a LOT of stuff happening on the screen at once.
Performance is of course always subjective, but we think its quite good...especially on the newer iMacs.
SC4D has always been a bit of a resource hog, especially when panning across a large city. We've done a ton of work to tweak performance and the difference between the old version or even the current PC version vs. this new release is night and day.
More RAM ist better, isn't it?
On which Mac do you play SC4? Playing SC4 on a iMac 27" must be delightful.
More RAM ist better, isn't it?
On which Mac do you play SC4? Playing SC4 on a iMac 27" must be delightful.
More RAM never hurts, but this isnt a 64bit app, so the effectiveness of RAM is essentially capped at 8GB.
Yes, me and the publishing team have our own 27" rig we play on in the office
I took that same machine out to MacWorld to show an early build to press folks, and everyone came away really impressed. Its just stunning on a screen that size in that resolution.