After having a boot sector fail on my laptop's hard drive at the beginning of the week, I've taken the plunge and installed the 'release preview' edition of Windows 8 on my hard drive. Download The All Star Games Las Vegas here. There's been a lot of fear and uncertainty surrounding SC4's continued compatibility with newer operating systems and hardware, but, so far, in my tests running it with the new OS, I've found that the two get along fairly well on my dual-core system, using similar settings to what I used to get it to work with Windows 7. That includes setting the compatibility on the program to 'Windows XP SP3', and using command line switches to change the resolution, run windowed, and setting core affinity.

In SimCity 4, you don't just build your city. Use the My Sim features to personalize your Sim and immediately move him or her into any area and. Getting Sim City 4 to run well. Try and set the affinity so that the game uses only one core. Run simcity 4 no problem with a 8800 gtx, vista, 4 gigs of.

My tests thus far seem promising, though I'll be giving it a more thorough shakedown in the coming days. Thanks for the info, Tarkus. It's good to know that SC4 will survive the next version of Windows. As for the maximum resolution question, there have been some about this at Simtropolis.