Windows 10

[kentknifen]

So I have the original Deluxe Edition on a disc, and everything I've looked at is telling me the disc version is incompatible with Windows 10. I noticed the game was on sale, so I was about to jump at the chance to play it again, but I noticed the OS specs said Windows XP (Not just Windows, or 7/8./1/10). Does anyone know if the Steam version is compatible with Windows 10?

[Ilja]

EA and Steam are not playing nicely with each other, so no one has updated the Store page since the game got in to Steam.

The Steam version is the properly patched version. Origin sells unpatched version of the game, which makes absolutely zero sense.

I haven't played SC4 for some time now. However, people are playing it with Windows 10 and I did run the game, after I moved to Win10 from Win7.

You might have tweak launch parameters. Old game does not play along with multi-core system. Limiting core count to 1 by launch parameter solves that issue.

[Stracci909]

It definitely does work. You will definitely need to change cpucount as previous poster mentioned. There's plenty of tuts on the web about this sort of thing.

[masoja]

im installing now lets see if works

[G_REEPER]

well Masoja did it work???

[Arken_the_Fox]

Hello I've got almost the same Problem just with Windows 8.1 Pro . When I try to start the game, it shows up in the Tasklist for like 10 seconds and disappers then. Can someone help?

[Alpha_Prime1987]

The Steam Vision works just find for me on windows 10 and doesn't seam require much to run on must of the new computers.

[TarkusSC4]

Here's the trick: when opening up Steam, right-click "SimCity 4 Deluxe", select "Properties", then click the "Set Launch Options" button, and type in -CPUCount:1.

-Tarkus

[Robinho-Floripa]

You have updated your Windows 10. To Windows 10 16.07 (aniversary) or Windows 10 17.03.

[Robinho-Floripa]

To Windows 10 17.03 >> Activate mode game on settings.

[ThorThor420]

It works great and has been working great!! Cheap ASUS Laptop running Windows 10 + HDMI to my 65'' flat screen. Oh ♥♥♥♥ Yeah!! I've been playing this one for a while now. Let me know if any of you need a great website to select Real U.S. Terrain images to render in as new regions. Did I already say "Oh ♥♥♥♥ Yeah!!" ? ctrl+alt+shift+R

[C-MOG]

Originally posted by TarkusSC4:

Here's the trick: when opening up Steam, right-click "SimCity 4 Deluxe", select "Properties", then click the "Set Launch Options" button, and type in -CPUCount:1.

-Tarkus

I tried this but it is not changing my black screen. I can hear everything but not see.
Is there a specific way to type in the command that I am missing?

[C-MOG]

I typed it as: "CPU Count: 1"
without quotations obviously and now it is working for me. Thanks Tarkus

[afwsi]

Where do you find a list of launch parameter commands? I’ve searched all kinds of stuff ,but can’t find anything.

[Stracci909]

Originally posted by afwsi:

Where do you find a list of launch parameter commands? I’ve searched all kinds of stuff ,but can’t find anything.

Google "Simcity 4 launch options." The first result: http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Shortcut_Parameters

[MGB]

Originally posted by C-MOG:

I typed it as: "CPU Count: 1"
without quotations obviously and now it is working for me. Thanks Tarkus

No it's not... these commands are explicit, you must remove the spaces between CPU and Count, plus the one between the colon and 1. I.e.
-CPUCount:1
If you don't put the exact command in, it simply can not work. Want to be sure if this command is working? Run the game, then switch back to the desktop with it in the background. Open Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL / Task Manager). Under Applications find SC4, right click and select GoTo Process. Right click the process for SC4, select Set Affinity. Windows will now show you which of your CPU cores the application can utilise. If more than one box starting "CPU" is selected, you are still running the game with multiple cores.