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Karnemeth's avatar
Karnemeth
5 years ago

Re: Simcity: Sorry, your graphics card is below our min spec. The game will not run. Please see the README for details. [2001]

Funny.
I have three PC's here, all with a different EA account.
Two are from customers, one is my own.
I usually use SimCity 2013 to test the PC's for gaming, just to see if something's wrong with 'm.

My own PC has a Sapphire RX480 4GB.
The two others have resp. an RTX2080 Super and an RTX3090.

I just did a clean install of W10 on my own PC due to a new SSD.

On all three of the PC's I get this stupid message, on April 17th 2021. >>2021<< EA/Maxis. What the ...

Seriously, this is completely *. Building mid- and highend systems since 1999, makes me a professional in terms of computers, software and hardware.
And this stupid message claims the used gfx cards are below minimum spec ?

The strange is, I get this message on an old 1GB GT630 as well and although that one is below minimum spec, SC2013 works without hickups on med settings (on my 2560x1080 ultrawide).

2 Replies

  • BlackjackWidow's avatar
    BlackjackWidow
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @Karnemeth - SimCity was released in 2013; the last update to the software was in December 2014. You're getting a default error message for an unrecognized card. Yes, it should have just said "unrecognized card" not "below minimum specs" but this is the way it was programmed.

    Usually, you can just click through the warning and start the program anyway (as you've done with the old GT630). If it doesn't allow you to start the game, try changing the ConfigManager.txt line from "set DefinitelyFail -3"  to "set DefinitelyFail 2" as suggested earlier in this thread. Complete steps are Here and Here 

    The change will bypass the error message and should start SimCity normally. 

  • Karnemeth's avatar
    Karnemeth
    5 years ago
    @BlackjackWidow Hi, I didn't say I have issues with it. I said I get this, in my eyes, deluded message that even back in 2013/2014 was wrong.

    I know my way well around in software/hardware, as stated. I guess, no offense, you didn't read my complete reply.

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