I would like to play SimCity 4 using a resolution not selectable in game, how can I do this?

1. Simcity 4 Won't Start Problems

SimCity 4 installed successfully. However, it will not run. When I click on the icon in my start menu, with either CD it says please insert play disk.

The possible settings in game are: 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200 but I would like to use 1920x1080.

Simcity 4 Won't Start Problems

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If you have a shortcut on your desktop or on any other folder (if you don't have, create one), right click the shortcut, go to properties, and on the destination, add a space in the end and -w -r1280x768x32, so it should be something like this:

where the -w stands for window (so the game will run on windowed mode, and -r1280x768x32 stands for the custom resolution that you want (WIDTHXHEIGHTx32bits).

You can add -intro:off on destination too, to jump the intro part and start the game quickly.

To see more advanced launch options, check this thread on Steam forums.

SimCity 4 will allow you to play using any of the currently supported resolutions:

1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 1360x768, 1024x600, 1600x900, 1920x1080, and 2048x1152.

If you have SimCity 4 in your Steam library, you can edit the Launch Options by right clicking on the game in your library, clicking Properties, then clicking on Set Launch Options.

To set a custom resolution in SimCity 4, you need to edit the target of your SimCity 4 shortcut. To do this, right click the shortcut and select Properties. In the properties window, you will want to be adding the below to the end of the Target field.

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The first part is required to enable custom resolutions, the second is required to set the resolution and colour depth;

Changing the '1920x1080x32' part to the specifics of your screen (e.g. WIDTHxHEIGHTx32BITor16BIT)

In Mac OS X you need to hold option key pressed while launching the app.

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I have Sim city 4 Deluxe (for some reason it is the UK edition even though I live and bought it in North America) and it was working fine for a few months, but recently after updating Windows, it stopped working. I have been reading online and tried a few different things, I know someone else here had the same issue, as shown in this post..

But I don't have Kaspersky, and I tried disabling all my anti-virus and anti-malware software (I just have Microsoft Security Essentials and SpyBot Search and Destroy)

Anyone have an idea of how to proceed to troubleshoot it?

It was working perfectly, more or less on my machine (Win 7 64 bit, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, AMD Radeon 6800 HD, 4GB RAM) a few weeks ago but then after updating it won't launch. Heres what I've tried so far:

• Tried all compatibility modes, before I needed to put it into XP service pack 2, now nothing works.
• Updating game.
• Getting latest graphics card drivers
• Turning off anti virus.
• Reinstalling
• Installing on another machine, I tried it on a windows 8 machine still nothing.

Any other suggestions? I've tried to see the process in the process list to see if it launches at least but nothing appears. So the game just dies on me as soon as I click the run button.

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So I found out the reason why the game was not running, it was due to a recent Windows Security update, specifically KB3086255

The answer I was looking for actually came from someone having trouble playing Civ 4

They suggested you could either uninstall the update or run the following script to re-enable SecDrv, the anti-piracy software that was disabled by the update.

• Open a command shell by pressing Win+R then type cmd and press enter
• type sc config secdrv start=demand and press enter
• type sc start secdrv and press enter
• When you are done playing, type sc stop secdrv and sc config secdrv start=disabled to prevent a security issue

For me re-enabling SecDrv didn't work, but other people seemed to have more luck.

I uninstalled the windows update and that fixed the issue for me, so now the game works.

Uninstall - Then - Reinstall - In the Folder Without the x86 for Windows 7 - Any!

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