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Simcity 4

Those who know me, know I'm crazy for Simcity. Maybe because it was the first game I got addicted to, idk. But I've been playing since classic came out. I've gone through all the versions. Resorting to playing Simcity 2000 on a Sega Saturn since our 386 wouldnt run it lol. Now I've got an uber laptop (thanks GearHost) and have the ability to run SC4 Rush Hour at any rez with all the options enabled. I got back into SC4 when I found this site: http://www.simtropolis.com. Mods, buildings, tutorials, etc. I thought I was pretty decent at making a city, but some of these guys make unbelievable cities. They look as real as it gets on a computer. Needless to say I've learned a lot just from their examples.

This is by far the most useful and best mod for SC4 http://www.simtropolis.com/modding/index.cfm?p=details&id=380

I have a 22" widescreen LCD and SC4 looks like crap at 1600x1200 on it. So I found a way to enable a custom resolution for Simcity 4 by adding some parameters to the exe. Here is an example:

"C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\simcity 4.exe" -CustomResolution:enabled -r1680x1050 -intro:off

"intro:off" turns the into movie off, much faster load time. And of course the customres lets me us my native res. Hope this helps someone out there!