National Engineers
Week Future City Competition®
SimCity™ Software Requirements and Purchase Information
We will be using SimCity 4 (Deluxe) software for the 2008/2009 Future City Competition.
SimCity 4 Deluxe
Product Description:
Created by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts (EA), this software is a simulation/city building computer game and is the official software for the Future City Competition program. It allows the user to watch, experience and draw conclusions about the complex relationships and dynamics of citizens' needs, growth, taxation, revenues and sustainability.
Windows System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP (NT and 95 are NOT Supported)
- CPU: Pentium III 500 Mhz or Higher
- Video: DirectX 7.0 compatible video card.
- Video Card must have 32 MB or more memory and use one of these chipsets: ATI Radeon or greater; NVidia TNT2, GeForce or greater; Matrox G400 or greater; SIS 315 or Xabre.
- Sound: DirectX 7.0 compatible sound card
- Hard Disk Space: 1 GB HD
- CD/DVD Drive: 8x or Faster
- RAM: 128 MB RAM
- DX: DirectX 7.0
Apple Macintosh System Requirements:
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.2.8
- CPU Processor: PowerPC G4
- CPU Speed: 700 MHz
- Memory: 256 MB or higher
- Hard Disk Space: 2.0 GB free disk space
- Video Card (ATI): Radeon 7500
- Video Card (NVidia): GeForce2 MX
- Video Memory (VRam): 32 MB or higher
- Media Required: DVD Drive
Purchase Information:
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Cost: $ 7.50/ software copy
Purchase the software via the EWeek Shop.
