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SimCity Closed Beta 2 Next Weekend

[Feb 08, 2013, 10:29 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The SimCity Blog has word that a second closed beta testing weekend for the urban planning reboot is planned to begin on February 16th, and saying those interested should register on this page before signups end on Monday. The article is mostly a FAQ for the new round of testing, clarifying that it will be for Windows only, that testing will only run for 24 hours, and that the main purpose of this is to stress test the servers. Thanks Polygon.

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Re: SimCity Closed Beta 2 Next Weekend

Feb 9, 2013, 19:48

Kosh401

If it wasn't for the ridiculously tiny city sizes I would probably check it out. I like how pretty much everything is actually a real time simulation now. The face palm no buy moment for me when was I read that the game runs EVERYTHING on a single CPU core (with the exception of 'audio and rendering' that can be offloaded onto another thread). I couldn't believe it when I read that, who releases a game like this in 2013 and doesn't make it multithread-friendly?! Any RTS screams for a quad core, so one would think a heavy simulator like this would be a no brainer...?! Really shot down my hopes for an increase in city sizes any time soon.

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Comment [quote="Kosh401"Feb 9, 2013, 19:48]If it wasn't for the ridiculously tiny city sizes I would probably check it out. I like how pretty much everything is actually a real time simulation now. The face palm no buy moment for me when was I read that the game runs EVERYTHING on a single CPU core (with the exception of 'audio and rendering' that can be offloaded onto another thread). I couldn't believe it when I read that, who releases a game like this in 2013 and doesn't make it multithread-friendly?! Any RTS screams for a quad core, so one would think a heavy simulator like this would be a no brainer...?! Really shot down my hopes for an increase in city sizes any time soon. [/quote]

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