SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is a city builder, immersive sim and base-building game
developed by EA - Maxis and Aspyr (Mac)
and published by Aspyr (Mac) and Electronic Arts.
Released on July 20th 2010 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 8 languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Swedish.
It has received 9,108 reviews of which 7,456 were positive and 1,652 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- 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 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 G400, G450, G550, Parhelia
- SiS 315, Xabre 400
- PowerVR KYRO, KYRO II
- Trident Blade 64
MacOS
- OS: 10.12 (Sierra)
- Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 2 GB
- Video Memory: 256 MB
- Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVidia Geforce 8800 / Intel HD 3000
- Additional: Macintosh mouse and keyboard required.
- NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive)
- NOTICE: The following video chipsets are unsupported for SimCity4 Deluxe: ATI RADEON HD 2400, 2600, NVIDIA 8600m, Intel Integrated GMA 950, Intel Integrated x3100
- NOTICE: SimCity4 Deluxe Mac is localized into French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese
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This game hasn't aged well in certain aspects but has aged gracefully overall. Be warned that is virtually unplayable right "out of the box", but mods to fix it are cheap and abundant. It's still a reference for the city builder genre and I've played it for over 20 years and still learn new things about it. The entry level for SimCity 4 is extremely easy - anyone can get a city that functions, but the depths of gameplay are what makes people keep coming to it. BUGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: -Traffic is bugged, get the Network Addon Mod - I can't stress this enough. It fixes the issues with traffic and expands mass transit/infrastructure options (bullet trains, pedestrian roads, trams, ground light rail, elevated roads and rails, underpasses, realistic highways, etc...) -The opera house reward building has a hidden "capacity" stat based on how many people go to watch the opera. If it gets full the opera starts to drain the education level of the entire city (somehow if the opera is sold out people gradually become morons). This is only going to be a problem for very large and wealthy cities and you can just not build the opera house but there's a mod to fix the bug too. -High-tech industry (I-HT) has a bug where it won't actually employ $$$ Sims due to how the job stats are calculated in-game. There's also a mod to fix that, but ultimately your only realistic late-game options to provide jobs for $$$ Sims in a large cities will be CO$$$ (luxury offices). -The seaports are bugged and won't actually help industry as much as they should. There are several mods to fix this (industry thrives depending on how much stuff it can "export" outside the city. This can be done just by trucks but those trucks clog up roads. Freight trains clog up railways but leave roads relatively free). -A lot of large lots like the country club, airports, county fair, army base, etc... have a bug due to how crime is calculated where the game thinks they're crime hubs. Technically there isn't any more crime there but the security advisor will keep annoying you about building police stations in the vicinity, but even if you surround the building with max-funded deluxe police stations the crime won't go down. It's mostly an annoyance but there's mods to fix that too. -The carpool commute ordinance is bugged and doesn't do anything (I don't know if there's a mod about it though).
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This game will not work without outside plugins. If you are willing to look past this barrier to entry, you will be rewarded with one of, if not the best city sims out there. Madness when you consider it's been over 20 years. It's more than nostalgia that keeps me playing. This game has a dedicated community and has a lot of love poured into it. Check out the Performance and graphics list- Index of all critical mods to install posted by Ulisse Wolf over on Simtropolis.com to get this game playing.
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If Cities: Skylines is too much of a sandbox for you and you're missing consequences and more focus on simulation and managemennt this is the best you can do, even after all these years. Bonus perk: amazing music!
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What's it like to go back to a game you last played 2 decades ago? Completely awesome, at least in the case of Sim City 4. I re-bought it on Steam a few years back but only just got round to playing it, and this perfectly balanced and paced uber-City Builder was even better than I remember it. Get caught in its hooks and you might end up investing a couple hundred hours and ignoring friends and fam for weeks (like I did) With one single, easy to find mod (there are millions of others if that's your thing) you can play this baby in widescreen HD and it still looks great plus your modern rig will not grind to a halt after a couple of hours play like it did at the turn of the millennia :) I honestly wonder why it's so hard to beat this all-time best builder after all this time?
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Ok for any newer computer users, definitely use the advanced launch options and the game works normally without crashing. Here's an advanced launch thingy I found off of reddit that worked for me -d:soft -intro:off -CPUCount:1 -f -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -w
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Frequently Asked Questions
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition received 7,456 positive votes out of a total of 9,108 achieving a rating of 7.98.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition was developed by EA - Maxis and Aspyr (Mac) and published by Aspyr (Mac) and Electronic Arts.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is not playable on Linux.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is a single-player game.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition does not currently offer any DLC.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition.
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Online players
364
Developer
EA - Maxis,
Aspyr (Mac)
Publisher
Aspyr (Mac),
Electronic Arts
Release
20 Jul 2010
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