

SimCity for OS/2 v2.4                             11/1/94

Copyright (c) 1994,95 DUX Software


Thank you for purchasing SimCity for OS/2.  We are having
a great time developing and supporting this product, and
look forward to your input about any aspects of the
game.  Please feel free to contact us with any comments,
suggestions, criticisms, or kudos.  The only way we can
make better products is with your input!  We hope you
enjoy your experience with SimCity for OS/2.



REQUIREMENTS

SimCity for OS/2 requires a PC Compatible computer with
OS/2 2.11 or later, and a minimum of 8Mb of system
memory.  12Mb or 16Mb of system memory is recommended.



INSTALLATION

Follow the steps below to install SimCity for OS/2:

  1. Insert the SimCity for OS/2 disk in drive A:.

  2. Open an OS/2 windowed session and switch to the
     A: drive.

  3. Run siminst.exe and follow the instructions.



KNOWN PROBLEMS

SimCity has been further optimized and now runs in 2.5Mb of
memory.  OS/2 2.11 has a working set of approx. 10Mb.  OS/2
Warp has a working set of approx. 6Mb.  Sound support adds
another 2Mb to the working set.  This comes out to be a total
of 14.5Mb for OS/2 2.11 running SimCity, and 10.5Mb for Warp
running SimCity.  This translates directly to a large amount
of swapper activity.  In short, SimCity and OS/2 are thrashing.

This is more of a problem for a game like SimCity because SimCity
updates 75-80% of its memory resources (mostly bitmaps) constantly.
This leads to OS/2 swapping out some bitmap memory resources so it
can load in the operating system code that needs to operate on the
bitmap memory resources that were just swapped out to disk!  Thus
performance suffers severely.



SUPPORT

Support is provided through DUX software.  Bug fixes and new help files
will be posted on the BBS as they become available.  Report any bugs,
suggestions, or comments to the addresses below.


Thanks you for purchasing our products.

 DUX Software

    Internet - simcity@dux.com


 SimCity for OS/2 Support

         BBS - US (407) 276-3585  Mon-Fri 12am-2pm EST
  Compuserve - 70642,3611
    Internet - simcity@dux.com

