Game crashes randomly

[Fritzler36 0]

what is happening and how do I fix it?

[kingdiz_55 12]

It depends. Before the game crashes what are you doing? Doing being laying roads, plopping, zoning and what not. SC4 has a lot of crashing issues so you may have to be more specific. And um... you might want to post you computer specs and what not.

[Usmc2010 0]

im having the same problem, im not doing much. im just creating a city laying roads plopping fire stations and it just crashes to desktop. my computer specs are..

AMD Phenom II x4 quad 925 2.8ghz

4gig of ddr3 ram

Nvidia 250gts 512mb

320gb harddrive

windows vista home premium 64bit

[Derekvb 0]

My game crashes sometimes when I zoom out. Before I downloaded things from the STEX, it didn't happen. Some Lots or Bats just make my game crash, I think. Which ones, I don't know.

My solution is just to save the game very much. I think moving over the map whilst zooming out also helps. I have only seen my game crashing, when I zoomed out when I didn't move over my city.

[Esoteric 0]

when I insert a Highway tollbooth, and laying (streets) not roads, only streets around - my game crash.

Another thing, when I do some buildings historical - example - (Dennys Diner) - the game crash to.

Sometimes I can't save the City and go back to region, my game will also crash there... he he damn :/

others having the same problems??

Anders Fischer

Denmark - Europe

[Wiimeiser 434]

About Denny's, placing one seemed to make the game crash constantly wether I saved or not, even in cities without a Denny's. Could've also been the Dairy Queen, Pizza Hut or Tops Grocery, that was around the time the Consta-Crashing started

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Game crash to desk top is common.  One of the causes is puzzle pieces loaded on your cursor and then touching a transit enabled lot.  This is a known problem and is being addressed by the NAM  team.

The others are a bug or bugs in the game.  They are manifested by a null or destroyed pointer being dereferenced causing an ACCESS_VIOLATION dump (quite genuine).  Since fixing this would require access to the source code of the game and a recompilation, we can do nothing.  Over the years EA has expressed no interest in either doing the job or releasing the source code, even under a non-disclosure agreement.  Their lawyers must be a singularly paranoid lot.

If you have a fast enough machine, run in software rendering, which seems to reduce the frequency of these, but save a lot anyway.  The in-game-save keyboard shortcut is CTRL+s.