Start up problem

[ri0tiny0urcity 0]

so for some reason i go to play sc4 and it boots up as far as the EA logo and crashes. ive deleted plugins thinking that was the problem. boot up sc4 and again crashes at the EA logo. Any suggestions???

[LironTheChick 20]

hmm... strange... did you tried reinstalling the game?

[ri0tiny0urcity 0]

i will prolly have to. i cant figure any other way. topic end

[Jay Ess 15]

I have this problem too, but I reinstalled and it still doesn't work.

I read somewhere that it may have something to do with the sound card, but that doesnt quite sound right.

[Jezus53 18]

Are you using an iso file or a no cd crack instead of the disc? I currently use a no cd crack and it sometimes crash. If you do use on of those two, try putting in the disc and see if it does the same thing. If you you don't have the disc....

[Jay Ess 15]

honestly, I have used a no-cd before so I dont have to move my disc back and forth, but I am not right now.

[ri0tiny0urcity 0]

well out of the blue, my SC4 decided to work again. i did nothing but turn on my pc and give it a shot and now it works. No idea why it kept crashing but whatever it works.

[Jay Ess 15]

ri0t: what did you do before you booted your system up? (as in last session in Win.), maybe it would fix it

[Jezus53 18]

That's good to hear! I wonder what the problem was...

Colonel1, don't be ashamed about using a no cd crack. There's nothing illegal (as far as I know) as long as you actually bought the game. I had the unfortunate problem of buying the game and getting no cd key. That was a major disapointment. And it wasn't used or anything. I walked into Best Buy (which is ironic) and picked up a new, sealed game and bought it. Really dumb. Luckily, I had both SimCity 4 and the Expansion cases (Ilost the discs but kept the cases) so I used my brain and took the code from both of those and used them. Worked out fine but really disappointing.

[ri0tiny0urcity 0]

i deleted a view plugins like i mentioned before but honestly i dont think that did the trick because after deleting i tried to reboot the game and it still froze. I decided to see if SC4 would work a few days after deleting plugins and it just started working again for no apparent reason.

[NetPCDoc 1]

Hello ri0tiny0urcity,

One possible cause for programs to crash - and then mysteriously heal themselves - is if you have lost sectors on your hard disk drive (like from a hard power off while windows is running); sometimes just running the drive utilities to correct any problems that might exist - along with a system re-boot (or two) will solve these issues.

I had a lot of issues (like this) with Windows 98 Second Edition - that were corrected simply by running scandisk. Windows XP seems to be pretty good at checking for things like this on boot-up (but it may take a couple of system boots for XP to decide it needs to check).

Another possiblity is a corrupted windows swap file - which again - just takes an extra system boot or two to fix. For Microsoft Windows Systems - Just remember to do a proper restart or shutdown until it does heal itself; as additional hard power offs can compound the problem.

Then I did have one system where the processor fan died - and the computer acted really weird until I replaced said fan; I was lucky enough not to have to replace the entire computer.

-NetPCDoc

No detail is too small to be micromanaged.

[ri0tiny0urcity 0]

Good work Doctor

I did have to flip the switch on my surge protector for my PC a couple days ago.

[Jezus53 18]

Wow. There something that I would never expect. Oh how the simplest things cause the biggest problems.