Crashes

[ballewblake 0]

Okay, new to the forums, and a long time simcity fan with a persistant problem that I'm surprised is not mentioned in any other threads and I can't find an acceptable answer on the net.

My plain vanilla copy of SC4 Deluxe loves to crash and it crashes in so many ways I'm not sure where to start.

1. Once a city gets to a certain size, I save, and reload the next day it crashes after a few minutes of game play. This is a city with 300k peeps, about, and a region of 455k. Starting another city in the same region results in a crash after about 5 minutes of game play. Very annoying.

2. Once the game crashes I have to reboot to be able to start the game again as the game crashes when I try to start it again.

3. Once I exit the game for when I actually can, I get the bridge flash screen crash, where it lingers on the screen until I kill it in task manager.

These are problems I remember from way back that have bugged me for years to the point where I give up on the game and forget about it for a few years. I have an aging gaming rig, and in theory shouldn't have performance issues.

Athlon 64 X2 Dual 3800+

4 gb of Ram

Dual Geforce 6800 SLI

30gigs of free hd space.

Win Xp pro.

All drivers are up to date. Update patch is installed (sort of, it gives me an error when installing it saying the first dat file is already up to date, then goes to the 3rd dat.)

I know this probably isn't a tech support board, but any help would be appreciated as EA/Maxis doesn't seem interested in helping.

[tigerplayer91 3]

Ha! Ask Maxis for help? Thats greatt.

Nah there support branch has stunk for a longg time. lol, plus I guess it doesnt

help how old the game is. Theyve probably got a much bigger support team

for Societies.

You have absolutely no BATs at all?

If not then it might just be a bad CD, which is something youd have to take up

with the store you bought it from.

[Flyboy1212 12]

did you update the game system from the simcity site because my game crashed a lot before i updated and 2 you can't istall the BAT update untill you update the game

(ps updating requirse no mebeship.)

[Madog 3]

Hi.Welcome to the forums

Well this bugs can be cause because a lot of things.Omnibus has a forum of this(called why simcity crashes?).It is very good(like all others omnibus tutoriais).

Good luck

PS.:Some BATs can bug your city.

[ballewblake 0]

Checked out the omnibus posts (and yeah, there are some cool tutorials there) but the one on crashes didn't really help me. None of the problems were really like I'm seeing and the the solutions there (updated drivers and maxing out the page file) I'm good on.

I have loads of BATs but after these crashes I don't have them installed. I even uninstalled the game and reinstalled it. This happens when I'm playing straight out of the box games. Granted, I get to play it for a long time that first go around, but not being able to expand my regions or expand on existing cities really sucks.

[Mr. Random 3]

well my cities do the same thing exept i can play for an hour to 3 or so but then it crashes without warning!

[Mr. Random 3]

well my cities do the same thing exept i can play for an hour to 3 or so but then it crashes without warning!

[Follarch 326]

I have the same problem, but the only time my game really crashes is when i plop the elevated road puzzles over rails, as well as the ped mall puzzle pieces. I think its just the NAM thats messing up my game, but the puzzle pieces only crash my game some of the time. But yes, when it does crash, its very frustrating because i had lost so much development i didn't save.