SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
- Platforms: PC
- Developer: EA - Maxis
- Year: 2010
- Genres: Simulation, Strategy
- Tags: Single-player, Family Sharing
- Operating systems: Windows, macOS
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is a Simulation, Strategy game from 2010 by EA - Maxis. Available on PC. This page lists the system requirements, a quick check of whether your PC can run it, and a price comparison between stores.
Quick check
This check compares memory and disk space only. Compare your CPU and graphics card with the requirements above manually.Minimum requirements
OS *: Windows XP Processor: PIII 500 or equivalent Memory: 256MB Graphics: 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0 or greater compatible driver DirectX®: DirectX 8.1 Hard Drive: 1.6GB Supported 3D Accelerator Hardware: SimCity 4 Deluxe / Rush Hour requires a 32MB 3D Direct3D chipset, and a display that is at least 800x600 in size, and supports 16 or 32-bit color. It is recommended to always install the latest certified drivers for all your hardware Supported Graphics Chipsets Cards with these chipsets are officially supported by the SimCity 4 hardware graphics driver: nVidia: nVidia TNT2, TNT2 M64, & TNT2 Ultra nVidia GeForce SDR, GeForce DDR, GeForce Quadro, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, GeForce4 Ti 4200/4400/4600/4800 SE, and GeForceFX 5200/5600/5800/5900 ATI: ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500, 8500, 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 Known Issues: Due to hardware limitations with the ATI Radeon series, some buildings and graphic effects will be temporarily turned off while scrolling. There is a known ATI driver defect that results in SimCity advisor animations dropping polygons. To fix this, please download ATI driver 7.79 or later (also referred to as CATALYST 02.4) from on the Internet. Matrox: Matrox G400, G450, G550, Parhelia SiS: SiS 315, Xabre 400 Software Mode: SimCity 4 also provides a software-based graphics driver which will work with most video cards. 32MB of video memory is recommended. The graphics mode driver can be selected from the Graphics Options panel in the game, or may be run from the command line using the switch -d:Software. The following video chipsets will run the game properly in software mode: PowerVR KYRO, KYRO II Trident Blade 64