Simcity 4 hardware rendering problem

[folken9]

Hey simcity 4 owners,

I just installed simcity 4 on my laptop to try to get some play time in on trips, but I can't get it to use hardware acceleration. I've got DirectX 9 installed along with the latest drivers. I'm running an IBM T30, with a 16MB Radeon Mobility 7500 chip in it. Seems like it should work and I've even tried appending -d:hardware to the shortcut run target, but it still doesn't work. Anyone else having problems?

The game works soooo slow! I'm on a P4-M/2.0 GHz with 512MB RAM. Seems like a powerhouse computer if you ask me, but Simcity 4 kills it! help!

 

[Yzzim]

try searching the forum for SimCity 4 and you'll see my post about it and Unreal 2.

Lots of info in there about how slow the game is.

 

[folken9]

I saw that post, but the main problem I'm having is that I set the rendering mode to hardware and it automatically jumps back to software. I don't understand why it would be doing that. I have the latest driver and directX installed plus, I'm using the radeon mobility 7500 which should have hardware rendering support. Any ideas?

 

[0roo0roo]

eh, radeons have a prob. read the readme. u gotta wait for patch. but it should work , just slower.

 

[folken9]

my understanding is that the radeon problem is that when you scroll, the building dissappear. I can't even enable hardware rendering to experience that problem I'd happily trade better performance for disappearing buildings. But it won't let me for some reason.

 

[SendTrash]

fyi, the newest patch should fix the radeon problem

Patch 1.0.242.0 :
"Added support for ATI Radeon R300 series that add backing store capability. "