Could have been fun but it's broken.

User Rating: 4.5 | SimCity Societies PC
By mypcpros | Review Date:
I really went into this game with an open mind after hearing all of the professional reviews. I have played all of the SimCity games since the very first one. They've all been good and I wasn't expecting too much from this one since I heard they were virtually changing the way the game used to be played.
Here's the problem. On Windows Vista with the new Nvidia DirectX10 video cards, this game crashes more than a teenage alchoholic on crack. I really don't know any other way to put it. I work on computers for a living and it seems to me that there's something wrong with the way the game renders pictures and movement in Vista/DirectX10.
I can't get into play it longer than 20 minutes at a time. During those 20 minutes here and there I can see a decent game but then the "bonk" sound and the invevitable crash.
Why release a game nearly a year after Vista and DirectX10 has been out only to know it wasn't ready? (they had to have known - read the bulletin boards about similar users having this exact issue).
I'd love to focus more on the game and really wanted to but until they get this crashing fixed - what a waste.

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