Sim City 4 Rush Hour runs well (so far) on the Aspire One

Last night I was able to install Sim City 4 and the Rush Hour expansion pack on my Aspire One over my network DVD drive. The install went well, I patched the game with most recent patch and then had to use a no-cd fix so I could play.

I only played for a small amount of time, but I experienced what was surprisingly smooth game play, I thought this game would choke my machine... though I imagine with settings up and lots of Sims running around at some point, the game play will likely bog down.

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I played with the settings a bit and didn't notice a whole lot of variation in smoothness of gameplay, I like my building details up. Again though, once there is a big city full of Sims, cars, and all the logic behind those things trying to make it all work together, I suspect I will have to run at lower settings. I loaded the "big city" tutorial, but 20,000 Sims really isn't that big of a city to anyone who has played this game for any real stretch of time

This is still one of my favorite games, and I will probably be playing this one quite a bit. I wonder how the Aspire One would handle my favorites mods, judging from the strain they seem to put on my regular desktop, I should probably avoid them.