OT: Do Not Buy Alert

Atrocities · #1 January 23rd, 2003, 11:43 AM

For the love of god, please do not invest your money into SimCity 4. The game is unplayable on even the best P4 system. It lacks basic features and crashes often.

Regardless of your video card, processor, or memory the game simply begins to lagged and lock up horribly after about 20 minutes of game play.

The random events can not be turned off, and the game has them once every few months causing lock ups, lagges, and other irrating side effects.

The game was released, no surprise, in a buggy state and is in dire need of a patch.

EA and Maxis technical support is a joke beyond my ability to describe. I am telling you stay away from SimCity 4. Let them fix the bugs and make the game stable before you invest any money into it.

This opinion is shared by all reviewing sites, and has been repeatedly voiced by long time fans.

couslee · #2 January 23rd, 2003, 12:12 PM

I am not a simcity fan at all, but I know what you mean about crappy games. My condolences if you are talking about this one from personal experience. Some of the garbage these game companies put on the shelves, is enough to make a Royal Frigate turn pirate.

Did they have a demo? I have noticed lately that "no demo available" games are crap, and those that have a demo are fairly decent.

It's like Civ3. No demo. I DL a hacked Version, and if it was good I would have gone and bought the game. It wasn't, the hack got deleted as planned, and the my money went elsewhere.

The gamers have a lot more power than they realise sometimes. If NO ONE bought a demo-less game, they all would have demos. If they didn't buy subsequent games due to past rip-offs, the industry would start producing quality as the rips would be out of business. granted, that would take time before the effect would be noticable, but ya gotta start somewhere.

Mephisto · #3 January 23rd, 2003, 12:32 PM

I have no problem with Sim City 4, working just fine under W2k. However, it feels much the same as SC2 and SC3 for me.

Atrocities · #4 January 24th, 2003, 03:23 AM

You are lucky Mephisto. Very lucky indeed. I would be greatful if I could get it too run well under any OS.

Thermodyne · #5 January 24th, 2003, 03:29 AM

Sounds like a memory leak. Take a look at memory usage when the game starts to lag.

Instar · #6 January 24th, 2003, 07:27 AM

I feel bad for you man, I got SC4 the day it came out
Stable as a rock on my P4 1.8 GF4 Ti 4400. As always, you should get the latest drivers (but you probably already have)
If you are using an ATI card then you have to change some options, they are not all there for SC4