SimCity 4 Deluxe does not start... again and again....

[LoD 0]

Hi!

Whenever I try to start SC4, i can see the Splashlogo with the Bridge, but then, nothing happens. Always.

After the Installation, i could play it. The other day, so after a new computer Start (as like as a reboot) it never started again.

I have all Patches and updates and only the NAM. Without NAM, it does not work, too...

I've tried a uninstall, registry cleaning, new install, with patches, without patches, install it into another folder... but nothing... always just the Splash logo.

So i looked to our "Apps" folder und found an Exception Report. (Found in the end of this post)

ntdll.dll?? Maybe you can help?

System:

P4 2,66GHz

1024DDr1-Ram

WinXP SP3

ATi 9600XT 128MB AGP

Enough Free Space

Note: One year ago, i had a lot of plugins and the game worked. but now.... nothing...

Thanks for any help,

LOD!

[code] Exception time: 12/10/2010, at 00:05:01. Exception code: 0xC0000235 (-1073741259) NtClose wurde für ein Handle aufgerufen, das mit NtSetInformationObject gegen Schließen geschützt wurde. [Translation: NtClose was opened for a Handle, which was protected with NtSetInformationObjekt against closing.] . Current thread ID: 3776 (0x00000ec0). Version information: Application/module path: E:\SimCity4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.613.0 System version: Windows NT 5.1 System memory: 1024 Megabytes total, 604 Megabytes free. Exception module:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll. Exception address: 0x7c91e4ff. Sectionffset: 0x01:0x0000d4ff. Registers    EAX: c0000235    EBX: 00000000    ECX: 0012e284    EDX: 7c91e4c8    ESI: 0012e4ec    EDI: c0000034    CS:EIP: 001b:7c91e4ff    SS:ESP: 0023:0012e230  EBP:0012e280    DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003b  GS:0000    Flags: 00000206 Loaded Modules    Address          Size Module             Path    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    0x00400000    8187904 SimCity 4.exe      E:\SimCity4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe    0x7c910000     757760 ntdll.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll    0x7c800000    1081344 kernel32.dll       C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll    0x7e360000     593920 USER32.dll         C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll    0x77ef0000     299008 GDI32.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll    0x77da0000     696320 ADVAPI32.dll       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll    0x77e50000     602112 RPCRT4.dll         C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll    0x77fc0000      69632 Secur32.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll    0x71a30000      40960 WSOCK32.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll    0x71a10000      94208 WS2_32.dll         C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll    0x77be0000     360448 msvcrt.dll         C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll    0x71a00000      32768 WS2HELP.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll    0x77180000     700416 WININET.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll    0x77a50000     614400 CRYPT32.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll    0x77af0000      73728 MSASN1.dll         C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll    0x770f0000     569344 OLEAUT32.dll       C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll    0x774b0000    1302528 ole32.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll    0x77f40000     483328 SHLWAPI.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll    0x7e670000    8523776 SHELL32.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll    0x73e70000     376832 DSOUND.dll         C:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.dll    0x77bd0000      32768 VERSION.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll    0x76af0000     188416 WINMM.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll    0x5f0d0000     835584 OPENGL32.dll       C:\WINDOWS\system32\OPENGL32.dll    0x68fc0000     131072 GLU32.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\GLU32.dll    0x736d0000     307200 DDRAW.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\DDRAW.dll    0x73b30000      24576 DCIMAN32.dll       C:\WINDOWS\system32\DCIMAN32.dll    0x75ec0000     135168 MSVFW32.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVFW32.dll    0x5d450000     630784 COMCTL32.dll       C:\WINDOWS\system32\COMCTL32.dll    0x76330000     118784 IMM32.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.dll    0x773a0000    1060864 comctl32.dll       C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.6028_x-ww_61e65202\comctl32.dll    0x77b10000     139264 Apphelp.dll        C:\WINDOWS\system32\Apphelp.dll    0x10000000     638976 ~df394b.tmp        C:\DOKUME~1\Tolga\LOKALE~1\Temp\~efd759\~df394b.tmp    0x76bb0000      45056 psapi.dll          C:\WINDOWS\system32\psapi.dll    0x6d510000     507904 DbgHelp.dll        E:\SimCity4\Apps\DbgHelp.dll Call stack: KiRaiseUserExceptionDispatcher() + 55 KiFastSystemCallRet() + 0 RegCreateKeyExW() + 196 SHGetFolderPathW() + 676 SHGetFolderPathW() + 331 SHGetFolderPathW() + 203 Ordinal78() + 2649 SHGetFolderPathW() + 134 Ordinal723() + 1473 SHGetMalloc() + 8569 SHChangeNotifyDeregister() + 3366 SHGetPathFromIDListW() + 362 ILRemoveLastID() + 451 SHGetPathFromIDListW() + 142 SHGetPathFromIDListW() + 18 SHGetPathFromIDList() + 45 0x0001:0x001f2d3f E:\SimCity4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 972 0x0000:0x00000000 . 0x0000:0x00000000 . Stack data: (ESP is 0x0012e230) 0x0012e0b0   0098601c 68d320e1 d93f0000 00000000 00c8aded 78c50ed3 df3f0000 00000000 0x0012e0d0   04000000 f894677e a0de9c02 1cde9c02 04000000 f894677e a0de9c02 1cde9c02 0x0012e0f0   90231900 00000000 176b927c 90de9c02 1e6b927c f8dbfa7f 90231900 00000000 0x0012e110   14000000 01000000 00000000 00000000 10000000 f8dbfa7f 00000000 0a000b00 0x0012e130   bee2af77 00000000 00000000 a010af77 00d0fa7f 00000000 00002000 bee2af77 0x0012e150   50000000 00000000 00000000 64de9c02 00000000 b800927c 90210f00 30df9c02 0x0012e170   4100927c d80a0900 5d00927c 68df9c02 c4df9c02 340000c0 c0de9c02 dcea917c 0x0012e190   48df9c02 00000000 98210f00 48df9c02 c32f927c 68df9c02 1e000000 d0de9c02 0x0012e1b0   874f927c 98210f00 c0de9c02 00000000 b800927c a0ee0202 8cdf9c02 4100927c 0x0012e1d0   b80c0900 5d00927c 18000000 40000000 340000c0 00000000 facf917c 036cda77 0x0012e1f0   d8130000 02000000 30e09c02 e043f477 ffff0000 7ce09c02 04000000 02000000 0x0012e210   70eb9c02 f894677e ed43f477 f894677e 04000000 00000000 7ce09c02 d8130000 0x0012e230   350200c0 00000000 00000000 ffe4917c 00000000 00001400 40e01200 e3cf4c77 0x0012e250   3cfe1200 20e9917c e001927c ffffffff db01927c e3cf4c77 00001400 00000000 0x0012e270   16000000 84e21200 28b2697e 34705d77 a4e41200 14e5917c fad0917c ac76da77 0x0012e290   7ce71200 00000002 c0e21200 00000000 f4e41200 00000000 0ce31200 00000000 0x0012e2b0   00000000 4c000000 8c008c00 48e51200 18000000 4c000000 ece41200 40000000 0x0012e2d0   00000000 00000000 00000000 f4e41200 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0012e2f0   00000000 01000000 00000000 40000000 7ce71200 00000000 00000000 02000000 0x0012e310   01000000 4c000000 ece41200 4c000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0012e330   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0012e350   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0012e370   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0012e390   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Instruction data: (EIP is 0x7c91e4ff) 0x7c91e47f   04 8b 1c 24 51 53 e8 e6 c4 01 00 0a c0 74 0c 5b 59 6a 00 51 e8 c6 eb ff ff eb 0b 5b 59 6a 00 51 0x7c91e49f   53 e8 09 f5 ff ff 83 c4 ec 89 04 24 c7 44 24 04 01 00 00 00 89 5c 24 08 c7 44 24 10 00 00 00 00 0x7c91e4bf   54 e8 63 00 00 00 c2 08 00 55 8b ec 83 ec 50 89 44 24 0c 64 a1 18 00 00 00 8b 80 a4 01 00 00 89 0x7c91e4df   04 24 c7 44 24 04 00 00 00 00 c7 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 c7 44 24 10 00 00 00 00 54 e8 29 00 00 00 0x7c91e4ff   8b 04 24 8b e5 5d c3 8d a4 24 00 00 00 00 8d 49 00 8b d4 0f 34 c3 8d a4 24 00 00 00 00 8d 64 24 0x7c91e51f   00 8d 54 24 08 cd 2e c3 90 55 8b ec 9c 81 ec d0 02 00 00 89 85 dc fd ff ff 89 8d d8 fd ff ff 8b 0x7c91e53f   45 08 8b 4d 04 89 48 0c 8d 85 2c fd ff ff 89 88 b8 00 00 00 89 98 a4 00 00 00 89 90 a8 00 00 00 0x7c91e55f   89 b0 a0 00 00 00 89 b8 9c 00 00 00 8d 4d 0c 89 88 c4 00 00 00 8b 4d 00 89 88 b4 00 00 00 8b 4d [/code]

[baller23 2]

I had this happen to me too a while back. The problem with me was I had forgotten to insert my cd in the drive. Just my input.

[AmericanInfantry 0]

This is happening with me as well. I even have a thread about it below yours. Except in the case of my game, the disc isn't even running so no game. How does this happen?

[LoD 0]

@AmericanInfantry: Yep, but i thought your problem is quite different because you seem to have more than ONE Cpu, so i opened a new thread. but the same problem.

@Baller23: Maybe, but... the CD is inside... i will try it now with my cd burner and.. wait... nope, nothing... T_T

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Well, you have specified Win XP SP3.  It sounds like the same problem I have outlined in the other thread for Linux.  Some fix you have received has disabled the IPC so that the program can't find the CD after the initial load.  I'll bet if you look with the task manager you will find that that temp process is/was running before the crash.  It is the guy that looks for the drive.

If you have a restore point before your last update, back off and try it.

[LoD 0]

I don't have a restorepoint... i think.. but I always used SP3, last year too i think...

anyway, you're right, there is a tempprocess running before crash, so... what should i do?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

If that process is still running after the crash, kill it.  You should be able to restart after that.

[AmericanInfantry 0]

LoD, did you fix this problem? If so, how?

[Matches 0]

I have the same problem. CD is in the tray, the SC4 Process begins, then stops, with no message. I have the same "Exception code: 0xC0000235 (-1073741259) NtClose was called on a handle that was protected from close via NtSetInformationObject." files popping up in my Apps folder.  I am also running Windows XP SP 3.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game and still do not have any luck.

[AmericanInfantry 0]

Seems to be a common, yet new, issue to me. I sent A Nonny Moose a PM, hope he can help us.

[CaptCity 4,916]

Going to close this as the same discussion is going on in another thread (Link), Please continue in the other thread. Thanks...