Recently I remembered back to the good old SimCity and wanted it happy times playing again. But SimCity 2000 probably no longer run on Win7 64bit and XP may not. So I chose the modern version of SimCity 4, 2003 (ups, but so old!).
It runs on Win7 64bit. At first I, as here, some have advised, tried it in XP compatibility mode, but since I had only a black screen. So mode and started back to normal. Hurray, it's done!
After several days of intensive playing it crashed me only once. No idea why, but since then it has not happened again. Meanwhile, I have even more cities ...
Save I do anyway every few minutes. Better safe than sorry.
Much needless to say about the game: A typical construction game in which you can enjoy the small, cute graphics and the growing balance. The only violence in the game are car accidents, strikes and natural disasters. Or, if you tear off all the houses strokes as evil town planner. ;)
The best thing about SimCity4 are for me but the many plugins that you can download from various sites. More houses, gardens and other stuff to make his city more beautiful.
Why only 4 stars?
Somehow with me currently the air out. After I finally understood the gameplay, to me the game is already too monotonous. But it's definitely a nice game for in between.