Simcity 4 Patch

Sim City 4 sous Lion

Following the case of Lion, I received mails EC Illicit Drugs weekend People could not play Sim City 4.

There are UN patch "Universal Binaries" for Sim City 4 Deluxe. The fix was not present on the site, just add it BNO. It should allow to play Sim City 4 Deluxe (The version of rush hour) on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

N'hésitez pas à publier vos commenaitres pour nous faire savoir si cette solution corrige totalement le problème d'incompatibilité avec Lion.

Playing SimCity 4 on OSX Lion « Splurgebook

Ever wonder why OSX Lion is such a small download compared to previous versions? Mac OS versions tend to be around 7GB in size, Lion is only 3.45GB. The secret here is that Lion only contains critical features and applications, anything else such as Flash and printer drivers would be installed from the internet as and when they are required.

Extra space is saved by dropping PowerPC support. During the transition between the PowerPC architecture and Intel, Apple included a background piece of software in the OS called Rosetta which allows PowerPC applications to run on Intel Macs. With Lion, Rosetta and PowerPC support has been dropped completely and applications written for PowerPC no longer work at all. This is a problem for applications written for PowerPC, such as Adobe Photoshop CS2 and SimCity 4.

There are two ways of doing this, you could set up a Virtual Windows machine and find a Windows copy of SimCity 4. However, after installing possibly one of the most elegant desktop OSes (Lion), I assume you would want a more elagant solution to go with it…

Aspyr is responsible for providing SimCity 4 support for Intel based Macs.  This Patch was released in 2007 and installing this would allow SimCity 4 to work on Lion. The SimCity 4 application icon will now also be added to the Launchpad for your enjoyment once the patch has been installed. Performance is still slow (bearing in mind that SimCity 4 for Mac is not written to take advantage of Intel CPU’s) and closing/saving cities seems to take forever, but it works. So give it a try!

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Rawr :)

I came across a similar problem when exiting one of my cities with the patch installed where it would not respond for 5 minutes, but I just left it for a while and it sorted itself out :) I’m not sure if this is the same problem you’re experiencing but in your situation I would just backup my regions (Applications/SimCity 4/SimCity 4 Data/Regions) and do a clean install of Sim City 4 and apply the patch again.