For posterity, same problem and deactivating "in-game" resolved it for me too.
Instructions:
http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/deactivate-origin-in-game/
The oldest unanswered comment was about Windows 10, which has limited backward compatibility with Windows XP, however, since the game was a 2013 release, and Windows 7 / 8 aware, suitable mode choices in Win10 will work.
(Second oldest unanswered Comment): Regarding the system requirements and laptop computers, the majority of those do not provide the video quality demanded. No matter that a low quality Intel chip might have managed to work to some extent, there is no support for any such integrated video graphics, sorry!
No one can respond to you, given the complete absence of useful diagnostic information, sorry!
Simcity 2013 Requirements
Operating Systems:
SimCity will run on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
CPU:
Intel C2D E4400, 2 GHz, or AMD X2 4000
Video Card:
Geforce 7800 GT or Radeon HD 2600 XT with 512 MB VRAM
***NOTE: each of the above-mentioned must also have Shader 3.0 or better support, and it is essential to the game’s performance and stability that the latest possible drivers for your video card are installed at all times (see my note#).
2 GBs RAM
Direct3D Dx9
Needed space on HDD 10 GB
Optical Drive:
DVD-ROM drive required.
Internet Connection:
Players will need an Internet connection of at least 256 kbps download and 64kbps upload or faster.
Here's that Note# :
The equivalent to those ancient minimums they named for playable results today: Geforce GT 640 and Radeon HD 6570 (desktop GPUs). Laptops are downgraded 20-30% from the average performance of the same-name desktop GPUs.
Since cards' names are practically meaningless without a score sheet, the Geforce 205, 210, 215, 305, 310, 315, 430, 510, 515, 520, 610, 615, and 620 are all below the Geforce 640. The GT 630 is a fence-sitter, not recommended (to be fully complete, all of the Geforce 6n00s, any 7600 - downward, 8500 -downward, 9400-downward, are below minimum). The Radeon X1550, HD 2400, HD 3450, HD 3470, HD 4350, HD 4550, and HD 5450 are all below the 6570. The HD 6450 may be a fence sitter, however, I don't believe it is actually quite that good. The HP card that Hewlett Packard sold as an HD "7450" was just a 6450 all over again, and there will be an OEM-only "8450" that is still the same, just renamed.
After a long time i decided to install the game agian on my laptop. But i am getting the same error as the people above.
I have a fresh windows 10 install. Also have a amd 7970m with the newest amd drivers installed.
Also have a intel hd graphics 4000 card, when i use the intell the game starts without any problems. But the moment i try to use the amd card the renderer error occurs.
If you accepted the "Creators' Update" to Win10 two weeks ago, you now are forced by various incompatibilities brought by that update, into reinstalling all kinds of things, unless you think as I do, and will restore your system to its pre-upgrade status, until Microsoft can offer a better version of the upgrade! Meanwhile, since an Intel 4000 isn't supported, you could expect trouble with it.
You might offer us a look at your DxDiag report that might suggest some other possibilities.
How to get a DxDiag and put it into a Hastebin page:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Titanfall/PC-Graphic-performance-issues-in-Titanfall-here-s-how-to-help-us/m-p/2454360#U2454360
There was no way for me to get back to a previous version, since i reinstalled windows 10 on my laptop. I did however mess around with graphics drivers, and managed to get the card working now with simcity, i also have to say that the only game that was affected by this so far was simcity.
What i did for my amd 7970m card was a bit strange, first i disabled the auto update/install of the windows amd driver (it locks up windows completely when installing) using the tool provided by microsoft to hide updates.
Then i installed a older amd driver, version 14.4 (for windows 8.1). After that i was able to install the lastest amd driver (it would lock up the pc also on a clean install). It then still gave me a error, so i installed the newest driver agian, without uninstalling. After that i was able to start up the game.
After this very wierd workaround, i reinstalled windows agian to try and see if there was a better way to install the graphics driver, no luck so far. I then tried the same method as above and it worked agian.
Thank you for updating us here. Enjoy the game!
