Help running SimCity 4 on W7 64 bit pc / cursor problems

Hi all - I have a brand new custom HP 450 t. Intel CPU quad core i 870 and 2BG GPU Radeon HD 5570. 8 GB of ram.

I'm a * die hard * SimCity 4 players and you have installed the disk 1 and 2 on my machine without problem. During my 1st game play, the cursor passed its form of arrow normal to a line about an inch long, smooth on one side and rigid, model triangle on the other. All the features of the mouse has stopped at this stage. The cursor is then in a square, about an inch in size with pixels of colors of the Rainbow and still not the possibility to click or select anything. The task manager has been the only way for me to close the game.

I ran SC4 on our house built 8 years without ever a problem (XPpro) pc. Even for a short time, I start the game on my Vaio laptop, with the only question being incredible RAM consumption resulting in the gameplay being too slow to even bother.

But I've never seen this kind of problem before. I have not yet tried. After reading online compatilbility issues possible between SC4 and W764bit, I'm not sure how to proceed. Yes, I know Microsoft site advises that SC4 IS compatible. But I really think that if this was the case, so many hundreds of users would not be have reported problems on this forum as well as others.

Any advice on the question of whether I should even bother, stuff, tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much!!!

Hi aenflex,.

Through my research, I found that SimCity 4 is companies; Please correct me if that's wrong.

Windows 7 says SimCity Societies Compatibility Center is not not compatible and if the game maker

Windows 7 Compatibility Center

EA requirements

Method 1: You can install the update is available for this game and see if that makes a difference

Update available for SimCity 4, install and check to see if the problem persists

http://support.EA.com/app/answers/detail/A_ID/223/kW/SIM%20City%204%20system%20requirments

Method 2: You can follow the steps described in the article below

Troubleshoot display with Microsoft games

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/263039

(Article apply to Microsoft games, steps for other games)

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Ajay K

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