Gdriver Direct X Not Responding problem solved

[rubeszilla 12]

Hi all,

I torture the life out of my poor cities by regularly swapping plugins, and naturally, frequently have my game not load. Many of us have experienced this, the game simply hangs after the splash screen and never loads. When you hit CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC you get the message ‘GdriverWindow-DirectX’ and the status 'not responding'.

At first I scoured the net and found many misguided and dodgy reasons why this might happen and how to fix it. Nowhere could I find the simple answer, so I’m putting it here for the poor souls who go a lookin’.

Here’s the simple solution. Basically, you need to remove your plugins, start the game (the game should start now), exit the game, replace your plugins and start the game.

For those of you who need more information follow these steps.

1. Rename your plugins folder e.g. ‘pluginsX’. This can be found in ‘C:\My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins’

2. Start Sim City. Sim City will create a new, empty plugins folder. Your game should load (it always does with me). If it doesn’t then I can’t help you.

3. Exit game.

4. Delete the newly created plugins folder and rename your old plugins folder e.g. ‘pluginsX’ to ‘plugins’.

5. Start the game.

That works all the time for me. Good luck!

[TrevF 1]

I can't believe it! After a three year hiatus, I thought I'd drag the old Windows 7 HP laptop out of retirement and give SC4 another long overdue shot - I've been playing Cities: Skylines.

After all the trouble I had trying to get the game to run on Windows 7 originally, I was well annoyed to find I could no longer run the game.

Tried all the old tricks, went through numerous website, including Simtropolis, for solutions... nothing... until I spotted this 11 year old post...

Worked first time. 

You are my new hero. I salute you, sir.