Game crashes when I try to load certain cities

[TheAngryTomato 0]

I made a whole region with SC Terraformer and there are 3 areas that crash when I try to load them in. It goes halfway into the loading sequence and crashes. I'm using SimCity 4 w/ Rush Hour expansion pack.

I'm running a Dell Dimension 8400, Pentium 4 HT 3.40 GHz, 1.00 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive, Virtual Memory at 4096 min and max.

I don't think a picture is too relevant, but if you want one, these are the cities that wont load (the ones that dont look done in SC4)

Any help would be great, I have tried to re-install Sim City. Sorry if this was posted beforehand.

-TheAngryTomato

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The terrain is pretty rough.  In your exception reports folder, does the dump show "ACCESS VIOLATION" or something similar?

You don't say, but I am assume you crash to the desktop and not a reboot.

I can only guess, since your machine seems perfectly adequate, that your disk is badly fragmented and you are having trouble getting everything out on your swap file.  Try this:

1. Run Disk Cleanup on the My Documents drive
2. Run the defragmentation utility on the same drive
3. Boot your machine
4. Turn off all your security software and disconnect from the net
5. Try it now.

[TheAngryTomato 0]

Alright, I finally got around to defraging and stuff, but I am still having the problem. This code that I found in the Exception Report looks like it could be helpful:

Exception module:  C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe.

Exception address: 0x00748165. Section:offset: 0x01:0x00341165.

It looks like that's where the problem is occurring...but where is that.

Anybody have a clue? In the meantime I'm going to play around with DatGen...

[patriots_1228 51]

try lowering the elavation. i used to have a region with really high mountains on some tiles, everytime i tried to load those tiles it crashed.