Problems rendering region.

[ribena 18]

When I press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R and select the greyscale image for the region, the game CTDs after finishing about 4/5 cities.

This is the exception report, if anyone can help I would be very thankful (I'm hopeless at making my own regions!).

Exception time: 06/27/2011, at 19:41:12.

Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.

Current thread ID: 3732 (0x00000e94).

Version information:

Application/module path: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe

Application/module version name: SimCity 4

Application/module version: 1.1.638.0

System version: Windows NT 5.1

System memory: 896 Megabytes total, 260 Megabytes free.

Exception module: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe.

Exception address: 0x0096d918. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x00566918.

Registers

EAX: 00000000

EBX: 01a69684

ECX: 000004d2

EDX: 04745f00

ESI: 01a696d4

EDI: 04e2f014

CS:EIP: 001b:0096d918

SS:ESP: 0023:0012f5cc EBP:0012f5d0

DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000

Flags: 00010246

[CaptCity 4,915]

Does it happen only on a certain region or all the time? Are you doing anything else or any other program running while the game renders the map?

[ribena 18]

Does it happen only on a certain region or all the time? Are you doing anything else or any other program running while the game renders the map?

It happens on any region I try it on; no, I am not running anything else other than SimCity 4.

[CaptCity 4,915]

Hmmm... I haven't heard of something like this. Perhaps posting your computer specs would help someone recognize a cause...

[tungston 19]

It is possible you computer is running out of memory while rendering.

How much free memory do you have before loading the game?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Try resuming the render. It will continue from where it died.

Meanwhile, we really do need to see your computer details.

From the dump you are running XP with 1MB of RAM on SC4 rush hour with only the EP1 update. It is a standard zero pointer fault. If it is a large map, you probably did run out of memory.

With your computer description tell us how big your swap file is. On XP, I am not sure more paging space would save you.

  Edited June 28, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[Yuu Caa Sim 55]

How large is the region? Have you made sure that the greyscale size matches the config size?

For comparison, I've rendered a 33x21 region before using a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz processor with 512mb of RAM running Windows XP, which I'm fairly sure is slower than your computer.

Maybe the greyscale is somehow corrupted? Can you point a link to the greyscale, or post a picture yourself? Doing this for the config would be nice as well.

[Terring 6,476]

Did you have the screen saver turned on? Always turn off the screen saver before rendering regions.

[ribena 18]

I solved the problem now guys. It probably was either that I don't have enough RAM or that my screensaver was not disabled. WHat I did do was go on SC4 Terraformer and import the greyscale image and it works. Thanks for the advice anyways!