

SimCity for OS/2 v2.6                      9/8/95

Copyright (c) 1994,95 DUX Software


Thank you for purchasing SimCity for OS/2.  We
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.



FIXES IN THIS VERSION

This is a minor upgrade to fix various user interface oddities and
installation path problems.


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.

This problem is made worse by the fact that the working set for
OS/2 Warp with sound support is approx. 9 Mb.

We are currently working on a fix for this and will post it on
our Web page when it is ready.



SUPPORT

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


Thanks again for purchasing our products.

 DUX Software

	   Phone - (415) 473-1800
    Internet - simcity@dux.com
         WWW - www.rivendell.com

