🖥️ SimCity 4 system requirements
Minimum and recommended PC specs (official, from Steam). Meeting "Minimum" means you can play; for smoother visuals and higher settings, refer to "Recommended".
🖥️ Can your PC run SimCity 4?
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| Requirement equivalent | GPU tier | CPU tier | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 32 MB 顯示記憶體的顯示卡 (estimated) | — | 0.3 GB |
💻 Minimum
- OS *
- Windows XP
- Processor
- PIII 500 or equivalent
- Memory
- 256MB
- Graphics
- 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0 or greater compatible driver
- DirectX®
- DirectX 8.1
- Hard Drive
- 1.6GB
- Supported 3D Accelerator Hardware
- SimCity 4 Deluxe / Rush Hour requires a 32MB 3D Direct3D chipset, and a display that is at least 800x600 in size, and supports 16 or 32-bit color. It is recommended to always install the latest certified drivers for all your hardware
- nVidia TNT2, TNT2 M64, & TNT2 Ultra
- Supported Graphics Chipsets Cards with these chipsets are officially supported by the SimCity 4 hardware graphics driver: nVidia:
- ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500, 8500, 9000,
- ATI:
- Known Issues
- Due to hardware limitations with the ATI Radeon series, some buildings and graphic effects will be temporarily turned off while scrolling. There is a known ATI driver defect that results in SimCity advisor animations dropping polygons. To fix this, please download ATI driver 7.79 or later (also referred to as CATALYST 02.4) from on the Internet.
- Matrox G400, G450, G550, Parhelia
- Matrox:
- SiS 315, Xabre 400
- SiS:
- Software Mode
- SimCity 4 also provides a software-based graphics driver which will work with most video cards. 32MB of video memory is recommended. The graphics mode driver can be selected from the Graphics Options panel in the game, or may be run from the command line using the switch -d:Software. The following video chipsets will run the game properly in software mode: PowerVR KYRO, KYRO II
Source: Steam store page (updated 2026/10/2). Requirements may change after updates; check the store page before buying.
🎮 Can popular graphics cards run SimCity 4?
Intel UHD / HD 630 (integrated)
✅ Playable
Intel Iris Xe (integrated)
✅ Playable
GTX 1050 Ti
✅ Playable
GTX 1650
✅ Playable
GTX 1060 6GB
✅ Playable
GTX 1660 Super
✅ Playable
RTX 2060
✅ Playable
RTX 3050
✅ Playable
RTX 3060
✅ Playable
RTX 4060
✅ Playable
RTX 4060 Laptop
✅ Playable
RX 580
✅ Playable
RX 6600
✅ Playable
RTX 4070 Super
✅ Playable
RTX 5070
✅ Playable
Compares graphics cards only; your CPU and RAM must also meet the requirements. See Can I run it? for how it's calculated.