My first image from running SimCity 4 on Linux Mint.
I switched over to Linux Mint a few days ago. While the game doesn't work 'out of the box', it doesn't take too much to get working. And boy does it work - it's loading up quicker than on Windows and seems to be more responsive while on a map too.
I only had one CTD, which was while testing one of the newer mods but I wasn't able to recreate it afterwards. I'll call that a significant win.
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This is such a great game.
You gonna install NAM and all those goodies?
Definitely. Couldn't play without it, and running it on Linux hasn't put up many obstacles so far.
Still the only city builder that gives you the feeling of building an actual, large metropolis!
Agreed. Region Play is incredible in particular for the scale you can work at.
how does it compare to city akyline 2 assuming you played it. i played sim city 4 as a kid but never really focus on the building just playing around on the disaster feature.
I played Skylines 1, but haven't tried 2. Someone else in the SC4 community put it best when they said Skylines is more like a City Painter than a simulator. This being said they have very different feels - mainly as SC4 locks the camera and while you can make diagonals and curves with mods, your mostly playing around with grid layouts if you want things to look nice.
There are numerous ways to play SimCity 4 however. Some use it as a highway designer, others are big into the simulation, others 'paint' with it, some (like me) do combinations of all three.
I have more hours on SC4 than Skylines so I think that speaks for itself. I think SC4 looks nicer too.
Skylines 2 is now playable?
That's been my experience with most games. Haters will argue with you about that but they're wrong and should be ignored.
I literally had my stop watch out to check. Windows could take minutes, Linux had the game loaded in 20 seconds. I tried a small blank test map and it loaded so quickly I barely saw the loading screen. It was insane.
It sometimes felt like Windows was so full of bloat that it struggled to manage simple tasks, let a lone complex ones. Linux with pretty much any task just feels rapid in comparison.
Nice.
Totally agree. It was so refreshing changing over to a PC where autoloading programs were not the norm and where programs actually feel like what they're doing is what your PC is occupied with rather than running dozens of unwanted, and sometimes even harmful, background tasks.
Windows I/O and CPU schedulers are kinda shit. Or rather, general things and not adapting works of art like Linux'.