Simcity 4 wont startup

[cowultra 0]

Ive been playing it for a long time on my older machine and never had any problems, hopefully you guys can help me out

When i try to start the program, it starts loading but nothing ever happens it just stays on the desktop.

Original simcity 4 not patched yet

intel core 2 duo e6750

geforce 8800 gts 320mb

2gb trancend ram

191 gb hard drive

virtual memory 342mb used 3598mb available

ive checked my documents for a error report but couldnt find one, if theres another place or something let me know so i can post it. thanks

[CDI_spy 5]

I'm going way out on a limb here, but if you have Launch Analysis installed, the SecuROM support team may be able to help you out; they sure helped me with other games.

If you go into Simcity's EXE file, right click it, you may an option titled "Launch Analysis" under the "Open" option.  If you run this, it will create a small file that you will then be able to send to the folks at support@securom.com, who may be able to help you out with your startup troubles.

[cowultra 0]

i looked for this launch analysis but could not find the option, do you mean on the cd?

and the simcity version is 1.0.231.0

oh and my operating system is windows xp service pack 2

[tungston 19]

The first thing I would suggest is to install the update patch.

[cowultra 0]

alright ill do that, but its worked fine on my older machine without patching. ill try it anyways ill update you guys later

[cowultra 0]

Okay this is weird, when i was updating i kept getting this error:

"Old File not found. Howerver, a file of the same name was found. No update done since file contents do not match."

the error popped up when trying to patch:

Graphics Rules.sgr

SimCity_1.dat

SimCity_2.dat

SimCity_3.dat

SimCity_4.dat

[tungston 19]

I have seen more that one like problem with SC4 and the recent nVidia cards, such as the geforce 8800. But I have seen no solution for that.

Edit:  I think that might be a "false positive" with the error message.  I think it occurs when the file is up to date, and is not changed.

The thing to look at is the version of the Simcity 4.exe.