Hate to do this ....

[Dragontempest 0]

It has happened several times now...and I have finally been able to reproduce it to when it happens.  This "crash-to-desktop" only happens when I am "drawing" a long stretch of road, street, etc to a detriminate point on the map. (it is as if all the "acres" of road have a limit as to how many you can have) I have reinstalled my game (finaaly found Rush Hour disk), I have reformated my hard drive.  Run all the tests to kingdom come.

AMD 64x2 4200, DFI lanparty UI  SLI 939, 2gig CAS2 dual-channel RAM, WD 250GB SATA2 16mb cache hard disk, single PNY Nvidia 7900gs 256mb video card, LG lightscribe 18x SATA DVD-RAM drive. 

Graphics set to full with custom resolution set at 1440x900

Can you tell me what is wrong?

SimCity Exception Report 2007.06.13 06.45.34.txt

[dadyrghluv 8]

could be the fact ur running a dual core CPU. SC4 doesn't like these nor does it recognize them. set ur proc to run affinity, instead of using both. then run the game and try and draw that road u wanted.

[Dragontempest 0]

Nope Affinity didnt do a thing.  Well actually seemed to slow it down LOL

Here is a pic of what I am trying to do.

Funny thing is that I can still build a city.. just not in this direction

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You may have hit an ingame limit.  Try building smaller segments.  Does the game say you cannot build a bridge there?

[Dragontempest 0]

Well I tried smaller segments but it ends up with the same results.  When I get to that general area it crashes.  I tried to get tehre from another side, and it does the same thing.  DO i Have to destory the city?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Hopefully not.  If the area is blank as you showed, run the dezoning tool (V key) over it, and/or bulldoze it.  Then build some trees on it, and try laying your road again.

[Dragontempest 0]

that was it! I dezoned the area, Nothing. I bulldozed the area, Nothing, I planted Trees (Earthday somewhere), nothing. then I built the road... tile by tile... LOL It went all the way. Musta been a plot that had not got erased when I destroyed the previous city. Thanks!

[Dragontempest 0]

It gets worse LOL  I found out what the problem is but its a crap shoot.   Look at the pic included.  there are red zones on the overlay, the overlay is a bulldozer. Those red squares only appear on cliff sections but they, when built on, cause my system to dump to desktop.  but unfortunatly I cant find all of them and they are all over the place now... as if the city is corupted.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Looks like you had a beach there.  If this city tile was previously used then destroyed with obliterate, I suspect there is garbage remaining in the area.  This may mean that the region is pork.  You could try obliterating one more time.

[Dragontempest 0]

yep that is exactly what I did.  I save the city and moved it to different folder then obliterated it and then Eroded the whole thing 4 times.  It seems to work.

Thanks for your help

[Ttimber13 0]

Originally posted by: dadyrghluv could be the fact ur running a dual core CPU. SC4 doesn't like these nor does it recognize them. set ur proc to run affinity, instead of using both. then run the game and try and draw that road u wanted.quote>

   How do I do this?

[tungston 19]

If you are using Intel Core2Duo/Quad, it is not necessary. That issue is for AMD, and I think 64 bit processors.