Simcity 5 and 64 bit

[pcslookout]

If Simcity 5 would of been 64 bit would of it been able to handle larger maps you think?

 

[Jodell88]

The map size is an artificial limitation put into the game by EA and Maxis.

 

[pcslookout]

Well you should see the fps the Titian gets in Simcity 5. The game is pretty demanding.

 

[techie81]

Well you should see the fps the Titian gets in Simcity 5. The game is pretty demanding.

Not really, I can run it on my laptop easily.

 

[pcslookout]

Not really, I can run it on my laptop easily.

Well I am talking all High settings or Ultra settings. Game looks so much better like that.

 

[cbrunny]

If Simcity 5 was 64 bit would it have been able to handle larger maps? Do you think?

Fixed that for you. Also, probably not.

 

[pcslookout]

Wrong topic.

 

[Kadarin]

If Simcity 5 would of been 64 bit would of it been able to handle larger maps you think?

For a guy who "Google accepted for a job offer", your English sucks balls.

 

[lupi]

He also said sim 5 was the best game eva! So he has that going for him too.

 

[maevinj]

Luckily I've got this guy blocked so I don't have to read the trash he spews, but he is a well known EA schill. I would say I'm surprised he's still here, but I know his trolling generates ad clicks for the forum. I guess he's one of those necessary evils..

 

[Maximilian]

Luckily I've got this guy blocked so I don't have to read the trash he spews, but he is a well known EA schill. I would say I'm surprised he's still here, but I know his trolling generates ad clicks for the forum. I guess he's one of those necessary evils..

Ill sum up what he said for you:

"I used to love EA and simcity 5, i hate both now they suck... im sorry for being so wrong! Forgive me ananadtech :'("

 

[CuriousMike]

64bits would not have helped.
Simcities city size was limited due to the number of agents simulated - it did too much work and wasn't threaded well.

 

[Clinkster]

If Simcity 5 weren't such a bad game, it would have been able to handle larger maps.

 

[BrightCandle]

The game barely manages to simulate as it is with its current design. The agent approach simply didn't scale up to the sizes of maps and population that would be necessary. I doubt it had anything to do with memory limits, looks like a CPU performance issue to me that kicked in much earlier than they expected. It looks like they also expected to be able to multi thread with an agents approach but they never wrote it as such and they ended up not having much multi threading at all. Technically the game was just poorly designed and written, this shows in the level of bugs, in the technical issues with the game and the performance limits it has.

 

[abj13]

From what I've read, the game is single threaded, and doesn't utilize multiple cores...

 

[lamedude]

It might have avoided go to first available home after work type problems if EA was willing bump the memory requirements for the agents.