Will SimCity4 Work With Lion?

[smoge]

Just wondering if my favorite game on the mac will still be playable?

K (worded a bit wrong) k i play simcity on a pc paling on getting a mac soon, can i still play it.
-correct- Just wondering if my favorite game will still be playable on the mac?

 

[MacBookPro13"]

Did it work on 10.6.8?

 

[smoge]

I dont have a clue, sorry.

 

[Patrick J]

Did it work on 10.6.8?

Yes it worked. I haven't installed yet, no reason as to why it shouldn't work.

 

[S.B.G]

Sim City 4 was designed for the PowerPC Mac's. It barely works on any Intel Mac. They made a patch for it in an attempt to make it work on Intel Mac's but it really didn't work at all. I bought the game knowing this ahead of time in hopes that maybe it would be ok to play, but it wasn't. It runs choppy and extremely slow even though I have an i7 2.93GHz w/16GB RAM. The coding just isn't optimized for the Intel CPU.

As far as I know the company has no plans on releasing any new titles for the City-style games on Mac. I hope that they change their mind someday. I've had every version of Sim City since the Super Nintendo through all the PC versions.

 

[smoge]

Sim City 4 was designed for the PowerPC Mac's. It barely works on any Intel Mac. They made a patch for it in an attempt to make it work on Intel Mac's but it really didn't work at all. I bought the game knowing this ahead of time in hopes that maybe it would be ok to play, but it wasn't. It runs choppy and extremely slow even though I have an i7 2.93GHz w/16GB RAM. The coding just isn't optimized for the Intel CPU.

Thats a shame, I probably wont get it then. 🙁

 

[rikbrown]

Thats a shame, I probably wont get it then. 🙁

You can just run it in Windows through Bootcamp...

 

[smoge]

You can just run it in Windows through Bootcamp...

I could but I would like to keep my mac free of windows for now.

 

[Patrick J]

I could but I would like to keep my mac free of windows for now.

It works on Mac, no need to install Windows.

 

[johnhw]

I have SimCity4 on my Mac and when you attempt to run it this will pop-up (on Lion):

 

[S.B.G]

It works on Mac, no need to install Windows.

Yes, as long as your Mac is a PowerPC Mac.

 

[rikbrown]

I could but I would like to keep my mac free of windows for now.

I guess, but it doesn't hurt anything having a 20GB or so Windows partition sitting in the corner for SimCity. You don't even need to remember it's there until you have to use it! 😀

 

[Pentad]

It runs great under WINE (free) and CrossOver (commercial).


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