Widescreen & High Res

A tech guide for widescreen users and anyone wanting to make the game look more appealing and resolve some bugs.

Quick Start Command Line

Add this to command line variables.

-CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -f -intro:off -CPUCount:1 -CPUPriority:high -Cursors:fullcolor

How to use a custom resolution

Add the folllowing line to the launch options in steam.

-CustomResolution:enabled -r1680x1050x32

Replace with desired resolition.
Please check the other section for supported resolutions.

Also adding
-f Forces Fullscreen
-w Forces Windowed Screen

Supported Resolutions

• 1280 x 800 (16:10)
  
• 1440 x 900 (16:10)
  
• 1680 x 1050 (16:10)
  
• 1920 x 1200 (16:10)
  
• 2560 x 1600 (16:10)
  
• 1024 x 576 (16:9)
  
• 1360 x 768 (16:9)
  
• 1024 x 600 (16:9)
  
• 1600 x 900 (16:9)
  
• 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
  
• 2048 x 1152 (16:9)
  
• 1366x768 (16:9)

Crashes on Multi-Core CPUs

If you find SimCity 4 crashing, limiiting the game to one CPU core may help.

Simply add the following line to Steam Startup Parameters.

-CPUCount:1

Skip Intro

The intro video can be skipped automatically by adding this parameter to launch options

-intro:off

[General Giovana]

Working 100% here, thank you

[DanTheStar]

what about 1080x720?

[Crazz33]

OMG THANK YOU

[Cookie Piska]

Worked like a charm!!! Ty for sharing!

[JaredNomac]

Doesn't work for me at all

[AlphaDeco]

You're a genius! thanks!! :)

[BigJake901]

Thanks for posting this ... helped a bunch!

[^1K^7r3m]

2560 x 1440 is working fine for me on a Linux system anyway...

[Frank Bumstead]

SALUTE!

[Mokum]

hello dude

lots of thanks for this finally i can play the game