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Re:Electronic Arts bringing back ‘SimCity’ franchise after 1... by georgieporgie on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @01:33PM (#3676538)
SimCity 4 still brings my current laptop to its knees. If it wasn't for the inevitable graphics glitches (which may in fact be my video card overheating, who knows), I would still be playing it regularly.
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Re:Electronic Arts bringing back ‘SimCity’ franchise after 1... by cahrens on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @02:51PM (#3676823)
Its probably because the game itself was designed for single-processor machines and was never adapted to SMP systems. The graphics glitches are likely because the game depended on certain features of older GPUs
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Re:Electronic Arts bringing back ‘SimCity’ franchise after 1... by Bapabooiee on Saturday March 10, 2012 @01:16PM (#3688295)
Maxis did an IAmA on Reddit about a day ago, and one of their responses addressed this issue:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qmi0w/iama_maxis_devel...

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