Sim City, despite its age, is one of the best city-building simulations to date. Only Cities Skylines can compete with this jewel, but both games have different focuses (Cities Skylines: architecture, especially traffic; Sim City 4: management of a city (taxes, politics, community maintenance, etc..)), so I recommend both games to every city-building fan. It still looks great for its age (in a really big city you have the feeling to have created a living universe), is playfully top and has an active community until today. But unfortunately it often causes technical issues on modern systems, especially with WIN10. I recommend this page + the following downloads to every newcomer. Network Addon Mod (NAM): This greatly expands the possibilities of the traffic in Sim City 4 https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26793-network-addon-mod-nam-cross-platform/ Launcher: The Launcher simplifies the start of Sim City 4 with higher resolution, a useful autosave function and the integration of other parameters https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28544-sc4-launcher/ DirectX Workaround: With me the game never started with DirectX. The lower thread is actually a workaround to be able to play the game without graphic errors even at resolutions above 1920x1080, but this is the reason why I could play in DirectX mode, which is usually faster than in software mode https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/759666-how-to-run-simcity-4-natively-above-1920x1080-in-hardware-mode/ General guide: Highly recommended to get Sim City 4 running on modern computers with Windows 10. https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/65165-guide-running-simcity-4-on-windows-8/ Besides that there are countless buildings (lots), mods, etc. on Simtropolis. https://community.simtropolis.com/files/ Without the technical Issues I would give the game clearly 5 stars. But they exists, so I give 4. I wish you much fun with the game :-)
