Unique game crash

[MedoPu 0]

Hello guys, you know, I have a problem.

You know, my game likes to crash and i don't like it.

specs:

Intel E6600

2 gigs of ram

ATI x1950pro

......

Now, i'm informed already, that   ATI graphics cards play Simcity 4 just bad.  And my problem proves that.

I have to play this 4 years old game on medium settings on 1200x1024 while I play recent games every single option ON MAX.

It's not the problem that when there is a full load, that game crashes. It does however more likely when i have a metropolis rather than a village. But game even crashes if i just open a new region and place a highway. Thats moroonic.

I did not download any kind of NEW drivers because card was published after the game was. If they didn't fix the problem in three years with their drivers when this card came on, they most probably wouldn't fix it with recent drivers either.

I also cannot patch the game, i get some errors.

Please, help me.

[Silur 3,304]

Have You any objects in Your Plugins Folders ?

[Craig91 12]

Have you tried reinstlling SC4

[Somebody 12]

something like this happened to me. I used a flash card to move my regions and plugins folders to a new computer then installed simcity4 on that computer. I couldn't change some cities, (couldnt place a highway ramp over an existing one. I patched the game and it worked on some but not others. I think i may have missed some of my plugins lol. But no worries it was my bad city.

In conclusion, i agree with silur. We need to know of your mods. sorry for going off there lol.

[MedoPu 0]

Silur> I have HK tower pack3, Money park lots, NAM, grand villa, extra cheats plugin IN my documents/simcity4

and by the reason known only to god i have IPS money park mod also in game dir/plugin

craigkingofireland> i haven't reinstalled yet, but i will if strongly neccesary.

Somebody> I somehow know i installed it correctly LOL, but i did those experiments on my old PC with simmilar results.

[amdinside 2]

I would back up your region/plugin folders and uninstall/reinstall SC4 and the update patch. If the patch will not run, it indicates an issue with your install not your graphics card.

[MedoPu 0]

It's not that my patch won't run, It says: Game patched succesfully, but on simcity official site they wrote that i must see if files were updated to more megabytes. But they remained the same just like they weren't patched at all. I tryed it many times but with the same results.

Oh well, seems like i will have to reinstall. So you guys really think this game will work when i reinstall, and will i then be able to play smoothly on high. If not, why?

[MedoPu 0]

Today I reinstalled the game but thank god when i was playing a city i accidently saved the game. And when i hit save and exit to region, game crashed. I still have problems. Are those costum mods the cause?

Please HELP!

[KingTitan 6]

Sometimes cutom mods or certain bats may cause your computer to crash...check out the Bugs and technical issues thread friend....good luck in finding your answer.

[scififan68 23]

You have to install this then install this update here.

I had a similar problem with SC4 I had to do this .

I hope these helps!

[MedoPu 0]

# SimCity 1.dat should be updated to 144,596,245 bytes

# SimCity 2.dat should be updated to 168,588,181 bytes

# SimCity 3.dat should be updated to 115,117,583 bytes

# SimCity 4.dat should be updated to 125,624,858 bytes

.......

I did install but all those files didn't change AT ALL even though the report was that patching was succesful.

(runing on 1 core.. is that vista problem only?)