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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

DONT BUY THIS GAME

Written by KW from norwalk

Aug 23, 2009

Sim City 4 for the mac is horrible. I am a senior in college and I have been playing sim city 4 on a pc since freshman year. i fell in love with this game and had tons of fun with it on a pc. It ran perfectly with no problems, even when i had a city of 2 million. However this game is horrible on a mac and doesn't run well even with a population of 300. I regret spending my 60 dollars on it. By the way this game is 20 dollars for the pc wit no headaches. My mac has 4 gb of ram and a 2.8 ghz processor. Sometimes i feel like getting rid of my mac and going back to my pc for my game. I;ve come to realize macs aren't all what they were said to be. this is most likely the last mac i will ever own and its partially due to stupid things like this.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Super slow

Written by MT from Nepean

May 2, 2009

Its like trying to play a brand new game on a really old computer. It is slow to respond to what you are doing and most of the time you cant even figure out what's going on. If this game was really made to work properly on a mac they should say what one so the rest of us don't have to waste our money on it.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Very Very Slow

Written by CN from Mission

Mar 10, 2009

So slow you cant play it. Macbook Pro 2g of ram 7200 rpm drive.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Unplayable on Intel Macs

Written by WH from Loma Linda

Sep 27, 2008

There is a patch available, but it is officially unsupported. After applying the patch, the interface was still too slow to respond (3 seconds to react to a 'create residential zone' for example). It adds up, 3 seconds here, 3 seconds there. Extremely frustrating.

And you won't realize that until you've tried to play it--and then it's too late to return it.

Do not buy this game if you plan to use it on an Intel Mac (the only kinds of Macs sold for the last 2 years, I believe).

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

FREEZES LIKE CRAZY

Written by SK from SAN ANTONIO

Sep 26, 2008

To start off, my Deluxe Edition only has the Rush Hour game, and not the Sim City game. When I start the game, it opens to all these tutorials that I have already done, so I don't even know what to do next. When I do click on something, it takes FOREVER to load. And when it finally opens, it is immediately frozen. It doesn't work at all! When I try to exit out of the game, it continues to freeze and doesn't let me get out. I end up having to hold the power button down on my MacBook. Whenever I try to play this game, I just end up getting in a bad mood. Complete waste of 60 dollars.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Computer-freezing at its finest

Written by RC from Silver Spring

Aug 8, 2008

I feel a little odd writing a review since I'm still in the process of working with tech support at Aspyr, but out of the box this game has critical problems. My computer is ridiculously above the recommended system, yet it cannot run the software without lagging-freezing in the tutorial. I've done some maintenance work and installed the game in a fresh account and the root directory, all to no avail. Since they ask that you install it to the root directory, I assume the thinking is the performance issues are disk related, and I have 4 gigs of ram so I decided to try running it from a disk image, still to no avail. It's sad to see a game I have admired and enjoyed since almost the dawn of PCs, in such a state of disarray: I hope tech support can get this game up and playable for me quickly, else I'll be forced to seek a refund.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Couldn't get this Game Up and Running!

Written by JP from Palo Alto

Dec 6, 2007

To make a long story short I have a iBook G4 1.2 Ghz, once the game loaded it got slower and slower and slower until it froze up. Aspyr customer service was unable to shed any light on the problem. It is a Darn shame a great game won't run on computers it is supposed to.

Hope you have better luck than I did!

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Could have been great if it worked...

Written by KW from Kitchener

Nov 10, 2007

I had this game for my pc (pentium 4 2.3 GHz 512MB ram) and it worked great and was a blast to play. I love building cities and trying out different terrains and strategies. However I just got a new MacBook (the 2.0GHz version) and SimCity 4 does not work. It loads but is painfully slow. The mouse cursor won't even move smoothly across the screen.

I have been all over the internets looking for patches, solutions and help. All that I can find is that the Intel-Core Duo Macs don't run a bunch of Aspyr ported games. This is brutal, its not being advertised at all. I have the Aspyr Game Agent program which should say, don't buy this game because it won't work.

I called Aspyr, and EA tech support and they just say that it is a well known glitch and with the game being so old they are not likely to fix it. Yet if you go to any Apple Store or use the Aspyr Game agent you'll be lied to and told that it will work. I like Apple, I LOVE my new macbook but this has to change.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Does not run

Written by JS from hauppauge

Aug 24, 2007

I have a 6 month old Macbook 1.8Ghz with 1 Gig of ram. The game simply doesnt run and is impossible to play. Once you have more then one building up the game slows down to a snails pace. 1 year in the game at full speed mode takes about 10 minutes in real time. Zooming in or out is tedious and annoying as it takes so long for the graphics to render. It is simply unplayable. Aspyr does not even address this issue on their website. How Aspyr can put this game on the shelves for years without fixing it is unbelievable. How apple, can sell this game in their store at a price of $60 is even more of an outrage.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

worst

Written by GC from Oklahoma City

Jul 19, 2007

it is bad and that is all i can say about this HORRID game

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Sim City 4 is great, but Aspyrs support is horrible

Written by PZ from Playa Del Rey

Jun 21, 2007

I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro (2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT, etc.) along with it I purchased Sim City 4. I spoke to the genius bar and multiple reps assured me that even though this game lacks the Universal logo the shear power of this machine will make no difference in game play itself.

After spending countless hours trying to find the solution, and receiving nothing but "we think there is a problem with our games and the new video card on macbook pros" from Aspyr, I'm heading back to Windows where the game actually runs normally.

I get nothing but horrible performance, every object in the game that is supposed to be animated "blinks", of course now I can't return the game because the box has been opened. Good news is that my macbook pro was not purchased over 2 weeks ago - so I might be heading to return this "it just works" machine.

The game itself is amazing, you will find yourself controlling absolutely anything that has to do with a life in the city from the managerial point of view (of course there is room for improvement, but you take what you can get). Big improvement from the previous game - regions... try this game if you have a PPC or a Windows machine. Aspyr needs to get their act together on supporting this as well as other titles that just don't work on the new macbook pros.

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