Graphic Issues, Blue and Green Polygons

[hmm 17]

I've been playing SC4 Deluxe edition on my beat up but solid laptop for 2 years, and I've never had a problem untill now. When I open up a city to play everythingworks fine, untill I press play. Buildings start growing, however some maxis light residential buildings and row homes show up as untextured blue, green, and black polygons, much like unfinshed 3dsmax modles. Othertimes entire maxis architecture sets show up as brown boxes. After maybe 30 seconds the gameplay becomes choppy and eventualy my entire computer siezes up. Alt F4 and the task manager cant shut it down and I just have to turn off the computer manualy.

Computer stats:
Ram 2GB
Proccesor 1.8 GHz
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M series Graphics Card 128Mb @ 400MHz

Been running the game on all medium settings execpt the texture quality is on high.

Here are some pics I was able to take before the crash...



and another



Both pictures come from diffrent areas on the same large city tile. This is my first time breaking a million in the game, and a realistic transit system (to my standards, I'm mowhere near haljackey's level yet) Would be a shame to have to delete the region.

Thanks in advance,
from hmm the long time lurker

(PS sorry if this issue has been tackled before on another post, dont think that i'm searching correctly)

[astronelson 339]

Are you running the game in hardware or software mode?

[hmm 17]

I think its on software mode

[jim 546 43]

Try running on hardware mode, this usually fixes custom textures, it may work for these buildings.

[hmm 17]

Thanks man. Im going to try it out

[hmm 17]

Hey thanks jim. Everything is working fine! All the textures are back and the gameplay is smooth again. And it was such a simple solution too!

[Zepp1996 0]

I have a similar problem, but more serious, would the same solution work? If not what would I have to do???

[hmm 17]

its been working fine since the switch to hardware. It should work out for you too