

To do this, go to the end of the tutorial. The flashing of the game screen can be fixed by setting the render mode to "Software". To end this warning, know that the game works fine in a "Windows XP SP3" virtual machine created with VMware Workstation 10.0.3 (the latest version in September 2014). If you own this game, try this solution, otherwise don't take the risk. However, depending on the hardware of your computer, it's possible that the game doesn't work.

The tutorial was made in a VMware Workstation virtual machine and the game (version box : 2CDs) worked without problems. Apparently, the solution described in this tutorial doesn't work on all computers (with Windows 8).

However, following this tutorial you will see Electronic Arts had planned a small option backward compatibility of his game If you use the troubleshooting utility program compatibility, it will eventually tell you that the program is compatible with Windows 8. Given the solution we found, this is due to the fact that processors now consist of multiple cores (Dual Core ,Quad Core. If you have already tried to install "SimCity 4" or "SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition" on Windows 8, you had to realize that the installation went well but against the game refused to start.
