Repeated crashes

[TinySim 4]

Well, the game keeps crashing, it really makes me not want to play SC4 anymore

It crashes after I press the lay button and move to a developed area, building in paused mode and moving over development when paused works fine, as does pressing play in undeveloped areas. I have increased my page file size to 4GB. Here's an excerpt from the exception reports:

Access Violation, 84MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 24MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 84MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 52MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 56MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 84MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 96MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 72MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

Access Violation, 104MB RAM free (Out of 1024MB)

To me it looks like SC4 won't use the page file, but maybe it just doesn't print it...

And please, no replies stating that I should "simply buy more RAM", I already got 1GB that should be enough... the game worked half a year ago. After that I got a virus, which is now removed, but game performance was never restored

[jabezscratch 159]

I won't labour you w/ mundane suggestions like try re-installing or culling plug-ins to try to find an offending item. All I can think of is, if you have a dual-core comp, try to running the game on one, as opposed to two, cores.

[TinySim 4]

I tried doing that, unfortunately the game crashed even quicker when I did... looks like I'll have to spend some money on new RAM

[MUNCHER_202 0]

By the looks yo it you will need more memory and what is your system specs so i can work it out even further and have you got all the video card's settings on even the advanced ones but i cant think of what they are that simcity4  does not support and it spits the dummy when it detects  them enabled so try to turn off anti-aliasing those sort of settings and it will hopefully work if not well i don't even have a clue what the hell is going on.

Later

MUNCHER_202

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Also, see the sticky above and set your VM to 4GB.

[TinySim 4]

Muncher: 1GB RAM, 3GHz P4, ATI X850XT, highest setting I have is on medium, can't turn off AA and AF (will download ATI tray tools and try though)

N_O_Body: Already did that (read first post, page file == VM)

Edit: Nah, disabling AA and AF didn't do a thing...

[MUNCHER_202 0]

The game worked half a year ago. After that I got a virus, which is not removed, but game performance was never restored quote>

Bingo i worked out your problem its that darn virus in your system its causing all these access violations in the memory if you can get it removed some how your game will return to full performance with no side effects i just need the name of the virus like Win32.Name of virus like that or it could be a trojan causing all the problems.So if you can get the name of the virus and ill search for it on symantec virus database on their site and work out a way of removal.

Later

MUNCHER_202

[TinySim 4]

Awful place to get a typo :/ I meant to say "which is now removed".

Edit:

Anyway, I tried again and it looks like SC4 ignores my page file, as I let the Task manager run in the background, and it told me memory usage peaked at  around 915MB out of  6538MB total (including page file). If I look in the exception report however, it says there was only 60MB left which means that SC4 either thought it used 6578MB RAM or though there only was 975MB installed. Either way both are wrong, and I can see no reason for it to crash.

Please help!

[TinySim 4]

Sorry for bumping but the edit won't bring the topic up and as you see I have some new information in there...

Edit: Also, I just noticed something strange: My PC has 1GB physical RAM. I have one page file (Virtutal Memory) of 4GB. Yet, the task manager claims that I have 6GB total memory. Where did that extra GB come from?