Anyone know why this is?

Macha

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Just a smalll annoyance here but hoping to find out the cause.

On SimCity 4: Rush Hour, on my ATI Radeon HD 3650 (Laptop edition so 256MB), when I set the rendering to hardware, I get some graphical corruption regardless of the quality settings on certain effects.

Eg. Planting trees or demolishing buildings.

It's a bit like it's being interlaced with a plain black frame at areas that are changing on the screen. It doesn't happen when I set it to software rendering, so I normally just switch it to that, but it gets a little slower at times.

I doubt it's a specs issue as my old Geforce 5200, and the Geforce 5650 (5200 was a desktop, 5650 was a laptop) didn't have the same problems.

It's not just my 3650, the same thing happens on my brothers laptop (same graphics card, less everything else).
 
Its probably the graphics card and drivers. Cant say for sure what it would be though.
 
ATI cards are known to cause problems with SimCity 4. I have a HD 3870 (not the laptop edition) and when I set Simcity 4: Rush hour to hardware rendering the slow down to a crawl(!) That was until I updated the drivers.
 
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