Win 10 Home has been an interesting learning curve. I had to go into Win 10's safe mode to undo the no-cd patch. I was trying to apply a Win 10 no-cd patch to a Win 7 game. I know now what totally locked up the Gateway laptop. I don't know what I am going to do with the old game. Then I will get the game if it still on sale for $19.99. So I have to wait until July 3 when I get my next SSDI direct deposit. The SimCity 4 Deluxe game is a want, not a need. So I save the overdraft protection for when I really, really need it. But my bank charges $28.00 fee every time I use the overdraft protection on my checking account. I saw the Win 10 version of SimCity 4 Deluxe on GOG for $19.99 and I saved the URL for it in a text. The same for GOG too, but the advantage for GOG over any other digital vendor is how the game comes fully patched, and also can be run standalone as well (see this post for details).Ĭyclone Boom. If that isn't preferable, another option is Steam too, but that needs purchasing the game separately from there. It would need chatting to their customer support and they should then add SC4 to be downloaded once having made an Origin account. Nothing in my reply is invalidated by this though, and for possible ways forward on Win 10, it does depend on acquiring a valid digital version of the game.įor redeeming from Origin and this is a free option to use your game code. Reading your edit, and it sounds like your Win 7 comp does not have KB30886255 installed (as this topic explains) and that's why it can run the game.

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