CTD without any possible reason

[technicallydead 1]

Hello everyone,

I need help regarding this problem that I haven't encounter in my whole life. After I downloaded the SWAP v 2.3 airports and the AC planes by voltaire, my cities that have "harbors" and "ports" like those of pegasus wouldn't load but instead would crash to the desktop while loading. I thought that the recent plugins caused it so i removed both the SWAP and the AC. The cities would load normal. I returned the SWAP and the AC to the plugins and to my surprise, the cities still loaded normal.  I continued playing for about two days and then the problem came back. I removed the SWAP and the AC but the problem still insisted. For two hours, I have been repeatedly loading the cities and resulted to a CTD until one time it actually loaded. I played and on the next day the problem came back randomly.

here is the exception report:

Exception time: 04/13/2010, at 16:44:25.

Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.

Current thread ID: 2836 (0x00000b14).

Version information:

Application/module path: D:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\simcity 4.exe

Application/module version name: SimCity 4

Application/module version: 1.1.610.0

System version: Windows NT 6.0

System memory: 2048 Megabytes total, 1088 Megabytes free.

Exception module:  D:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\simcity 4.exe.

Exception address: 0x006e93ef. Sectionffset: 0x01:0x002e23ef.

here is the config log:

Log generated on 4/13/2010, 17:00

Flags

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hardwareDriver = true

DXT = true

fullscreen = true

MMX = true

FPU = true

backingStore = true

forcedFSAA = false

Strings

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userName = Jon Paulo Siglos

appName = SimCity 4

version = 1.1.610.0

osVersion = Windows NT 6.0

computerName = JPSIGLOS-PC

CPU = GenuineIntel

sglDriverName = DirectX

sglDriverVersion = 2.0

driverName = nvd3dum.dll

driverVersion = 7.15.10.9685, GUID: D7B71E3E-4066-11CF-B063-00200EC2CD35

cardName = NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

cardVersion = Vendor: 10de, Device: 0326, Board: 0000, Chipset: 00a1

cardIdentity = NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

soundDriverName = {0.0.0.00000000}.{6e7e9346-4399-4d60-b0fa-5b15c3dc9442}

soundCardName = Speakers (SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio)

buildType = Release

Numbers

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cpuSpeed = 2800

memory = 2048

freeMemory = 1356

screenWidth = 1360

screenHeight = 768

screenBPP = 16

videoMemory = 254

textureMemory = 254

textureStages = 8

bogoFPS = 0

bogoMPPS = 0

Rules

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applying Sound

applying high sound detail

applying City Detail and Day/Night Settings

applying low computer power>

applying high computer power

  option 9 = 3

  option 13 = 1

  option 15 = 3

applying Texture Quality and Building Variety Settings

applying low memory>

applying high memory

  option 3 = 3

  option 14 = 3

applying Variable Speed Automata

applying default

  option 10 = 1

applying Standard hardware

  option 0 = 1

  option 1 = 1

  option 2 = 1

  option 4 = 0

  option 5 = 1

  option 8 = 1

  option 7 = 1

  option 6 = 1

  option 11 = 0

  option 12 = 0

applying Standard hardware>

  option 1 = 2

applying Standard hardware>>

  option 0 = 2

applying Standard hardware>>>

  option 2 = 2

applying Standard hardware>>>>

  option 4 = 1

applying Standard hardware>>>>>

  option 11 = 1

applying Two stages

applying Lotsa vidmem

applying Not Slow GeForce

applying Fast card

applying Fast card>

  option 12 = 1

applying Fast card>>

  option 1 = 3

applying Fast card>>>

  option 0 = 3

applying Fast card>>>>

  option 2 = 3

applying Fast card>>>>>

  option 4 = 1

Options

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Visual Effects       current:   3 recommended:   3

Cars/Sims            current:   1 recommended:   3

Shadows              current:   1 recommended:   3

Atmospheric effects  current:   1 recommended:   1

Water effects        current:   1 recommended:   1

Software/Hardware    current:   1 recommended:   1

Cursor               current:   1 recommended:   1

VariableSpeedAutomata current:   1 recommended:   1

Translucent UI       current:   1 recommended:   1

Graphic Detail       current:   3 recommended:   3

Building Load Speed  current:   3 recommended:   3

Texture Quality      current:   2 recommended:   3

Properties

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forcesoftwaredriver = false

renderdynamicview = true

renderstaticview = true

renderwatereffects = true

rendercloudsandfog = true

forcepointsampling = false

forcebilinear = false

forcenoalphablend = false

forcenoalphatest = false

rendershadows = true

renderdecals = true

usesecondstage = true

forcedebugtexture = false

renderparticleeffects = true

renderflorashadows = true

renderterrain = true

showupdateregions = false

usecursoreffects = true

drawlottextures = true

drawlotfoundations = true

drawlotwalls = true

forcetexturerepeat = false

usescreenshake = true

renderui = true

useupdaterectclipping = true

usevertexbuffers = true

showboundingboxes = false

useoverlayculling = true

rendersnapshot = false

noaddsigned = false

nopartialbackingstorecopies = false

usescreenflash = true

renderautomata = true

preferopaque = false

displayalertborders = true

drawlotopaquetextures = true

useviewcleanup = false

doautozoomandrotationchanges = true

viewoffsety = 0

viewoffsetx = 0

texturebits = 32

lodoffset = 0

shadowdebug = 0

maxparticlestarget = 10000

particlelodoffset = 0

effectprioritylevel = 5

backingstoremaxzoomall = 5

backingstoremaxzoombuildingsprops = 5

backingstoremaxzoomterrain = 5

backingstoremaxzoomflora = 5

shadowquality = 2

minvehiclezoom = 3

minpedzoom = 4

cursortype = 1

depthoffset = 2

debugtexture = 0

dirtyrectmergeframes = 2

sounddetail = 2

buildingvariety = 2

buildingloaderspeed = 1

modellodoffset = 0

stringtexturecachesize = 1024

particleeffectslod = 5

splattexturescale = 50

texbindmaxfree = 8

particledensity = 1

particledamping = 0

particlescale = 1

lightingupdatedelta = 0.0001

shadowmodelthreshold = 12

demolishmodelthreshold = 12

rendermodelthreshold = 6

rendermodelthresholdscroll = 40

particlesizethreshold = 300

maxvehiclepct = 1

maxpedpct = 1

opaqueuialphavalue = 0.55

Please help me , I really need some help

[tungston 19]

One possible reason is that you haven't installed the game update patch. Another reason might be that you need to use a custom resolution for the widescreen.

[technicallydead 1]

I am using a custom resolution of 1360x768 , I think I have also updated my simcity 4 through the patch from the official site

[tungston 19]

If you attempted to install the update patch, it didn't apply.

[DocRorlach 25]

Airports & ports are all considered "ports" by the game itself. What you could have is a conflict of controllers. There was at one time a whole heated debate going on between Pegasus & BSC concerning theese controllers. You can only use one in the game. AC's controller will conflict if you use some but not all of Peg's seaport and canal port pieces (I am referring to the canal piece acting as a port - can't remember what it is called), and vice-versa. If your cities load normal with both removed, try using one or the other instead of both to see how far it will be playable. Both Peg's site & SC4D have words about these issues. Check them out.

[technicallydead 1]

thanks everyone for the help

Originally posted by: DocRorlach

Airports & ports are all considered "ports" by the game itself. What you could have is a conflict of controllers. There was at one time a whole heated debate going on between Pegasus & BSC concerning theese controllers. You can only use one in the game. AC's controller will conflict if you use some but not all of Peg's seaport and canal port pieces (I am referring to the canal piece acting as a port - can't remember what it is called), and vice-versa. If your cities load normal with both removed, try using one or the other instead of both to see how far it will be playable. Both Peg's site & SC4D have words about these issues. Check them out.quote>

Thanks, this helped a lot. I actually found a simple remedy. I found out that If query the seaports or the airports and saved it, the next time it would load it would fail. So I simply avoided doing queries to the whole region and everything worked normal