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Anonymous

10 years ago

How the frig can i play simcity4 on my windows 8.1 using the disks

I cant install simcity4 on my windows 8.1. What the heck? i hve the disks but to no avail.

EA_David

Community Admin

10 years ago

@Codzwert Hi, how are you prevented from playing? Do you get an error message when you put in the discs? Are you trying to run the game in a compatibility mode?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows/make-older-programs-run#1TC=windows-7

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