sim city 4 deluxe savegame big problem

[toniloni 0]

hi everbody!<br />have a big problem during playing sim city 4 deluxe edition..just everything is ok, unless i want to save game. i click on the icon (or ctrl+s) and the computer freezes..the cursor is visible, but i cant nothing to do, only restart with restart button, cause ctrl+alt+del give no answer..its a disappointing, that i cant save my game, could somebody help me, please?<br /><br />i have athlon 1.81 ghz, 512 ram, win xp professional + sp2, nvidia geforce 6200 tc..<br /><br />no viruses, no spyware, and newest drivers on graphic etc..<br />thanks a lot!<br /><br />toni

[toniloni 0]

me again, sorry for a lot of that <br>...one more information, i have only the first update, but with it and also without it, it doesnt go..so i think it isnt important..t

[tchaos713 5]

How long do you wait until you hit restart? My machine takes a good two to three minutes to complete a save.

Also, can you move the cursor, or is everything frozen?

When did you last defragment your hard drive?

[toniloni 0]

well, i was waiting about ten minutes and nothing had hapenned..the cursor is moving, when i move the mouse..but the icons etc arent active, only cursor and nothing is function, no quick jump back to windows etc..defragment..i think it is now a long time ago...but the other games are running great without any problems...

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

The other games don't have gigantic save files with many extents.  Do the defragmentation.  You should probably schedule it overnight.

Also, check your Virtual Memory settings.  For 512MB you should have an (initial,maximum) = (1536,3072) for your swap file.

When you are doing a save, much of your city may be paged out.  The whole thing has to pass through memory to be saved, so if your swap is small, you may get into a paging deadly embrace.

[tchaos713 5]

Hmmm...

I'm not really sure. How big is your plugins folder?

I'm afraid that you may have to reinstall the game. Back-up your regions and plugins. I would suggest applying all of the patches with a reinstall.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Pretty drastic, but bear in mind that there are only two patches.  Update 1 for your area (use the automatic updater and it will pick the right one) and the BAT night light patch from the BAT download page.

Under the circumstances it is hard to talk about all the patches.

[toniloni 0]

wow, i cant believe it!

i just tried the thing with virtual memory (as n_o_body said) and turn the numbers from 768-1536 to 1536-3072..and tried to save a game and it is! no freeze, just quick save.

so..i thank you very much for your quick help, and hope from now, everything will be allright