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Posted 27 April 2007 - 05:26 AM

For those who haven't been mindlessly browsing Aspyr's support site, it appears they've released a beta universal patch for SimCity 4: Rush Hour.

Let the much delayed fun commence :-)
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Posted 27 April 2007 - 06:07 AM

Blast! Too late.
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Posted 09 May 2007 - 09:47 AM

Did anyone get a chance to try it? Does it improve performances?
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Posted 11 May 2007 - 02:02 AM

View PostAleksi, on May 10th 2007, 03:47 AM, said:

Did anyone get a chance to try it? Does it improve performances?


The honest answer is 'not for me'. However: I have a MBP with the ATi X1600, and Aspyr note in the release notes than ATi performance is distinctly sub-par. It certainly performs graphically (e.g. scrolling) significantly worse than my iBook 1Ghz used to.

I e-mailed them with feedback and they responded to the effect that they were aware of it and were working with ATi and hence hoping to resolve it prior to release.

Hopefully those with MacBooks and GeForce cards will find they have a little more success...
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Posted 11 May 2007 - 12:24 PM

=/ There are no MacBooks with NVIDIA chips.
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Posted 11 May 2007 - 12:57 PM

View PostPegasus, on May 11th 2007, 02:24 PM, said:

=/ There are no MacBooks with NVIDIA chips.


I'm sure we all know that...the statement might have been slightly better worded as "Hopefully those with MacBooks/Minis or those with GeForce cards".... :)

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Posted 12 May 2007 - 03:59 PM

View PostEric5h5, on May 12th 2007, 06:57 AM, said:

I'm sure we all know that...the statement might have been slightly better worded as "Hopefully those with MacBooks/Minis or those with GeForce cards".... :)


Indeed. Sorry, sloppy language - the 'and' should have been an 'or'. I was thinking of those lucky buggers with too many Xeons for their own good :-)
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Posted 15 May 2007 - 11:28 AM

Good stuff. Let's see how it works.........

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 02:06 PM

So far working pretty darn well - only a minor sound glitch in the background, and the City doesn't grow in the background. Perfectly acceptible.

Wooohooo! (And it runs faster than on my older Powerbook G4!)

Even get "decent" performance running SC4 and Parallels at the same time!
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