"CitiesXL stopped working"

[Simsimius 1]

Well, yeah, I run the game, I get an error box with the rather vague "CitiesXL stopped working".

It's happened to a few people here, and I've searched all over the net about it.

I'm guessing it's due to the patches not installing correctly.

I've contacted support, but because I installed the game yesterday, christmas day [i bought it a month ago, as a present for me], I guess I won't get a reply at all for the next week.

So, does anyone know any temporary solutions?

The rest of this post will be a rant.

I really think that CXL has the worst installation of anything. Alright, I can understand online registration, but why must the game force you to install the updates before you can at least play solo mode. >_<

I mean, I spent the next hourand a half downloading and installing the updates.

And why haven't MC at least put this error on the support page in time for this time of year. They knew about it before, and have fixed it many times.

I really don't have must respect for MC right now. Especially from what I've heard [but can not yet experience >_<]. I really don't like the idea of shipping an 'unfinished' game, as paying this much for something containing so little [i mean, no mass transport? I mean, sure, they haven't finished it yet...]. I feel ripped off already. And the way the game economy works, from what I've heard, really makes think I've made a big mistake. And everything just seems geared towards earning MC as much cash as possible from the community of diehard city builders. I mean, the installation so far really gives me a heck of a bad impression.

Sorry, I'm just a bit peed off. It also means my free online will run out before I even get to play the damn game.

[TEZBB 0]

it took me 5 attempts to download the game, and I to have the problem of it crashing, especially when saving the game online.  Hopefully MC will sort out this problem, as it seems that quite a few people are having the same problem.

Did you download the game or was it a disc version??

[Stef42 0]

If you disconnect you´re internet (cable/connection) you will be able to play SP without all the patches, because the game can't check them (and no, there is no other option to do this) Take a good look at the messages showing in the log-on screen, it might have important instructions... What was the version of the game when you installed it? (Before all the patches)

[BeeBee 0]

It says nothing usefull. No code, just that it has stoped. I reinstalled it, so now I can't play at all. I can bypass the launcher, but it won't connect because its not patched. It had all the current patches.

[Simsimius 1]

Alright, it works on my second laptop so that will do for me.

Please excuse my initial rant, especially at the end. I was a bit frustrated. It's not a bad game at all.

But, support haven't really helped. They just blamed it on my graphics card, which I refuse to accept as it works on the exact game graphics card on my second laptop.

Anyway, still finding a solution [i think the patches are to blame, as the last one didn't seem to install correctly], but I can now play it on Laptop #2.