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Why won't my SimCity 3000:Unlimited play twice?

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    Hi! I have a Dell Inspirion 1545 with a Celeron Dual-Core CPU. My RAM is 3.00GB. I downloaded my SimCity 3000:Unlimited onto my computer last night, and played for a couple of hours (I love this game!), but today it won't load! I get all the way to the very first menu, where you can start a new city, load a current city, etc, but it won't let me click on any of them. I have to start task manager and close it out that way. Is there anything I can do, or what am I doing wrong? It's worth mentioning that before I get to that menu, my computer (which runs on Windows 7) pops a window and asks if I will allow an update to install... Whether I close out of the window, allow, or deny this update, the result of an unresponsive opening menu remains.

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    Ocram's Razr    963

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    It could be a compatibility issue, DRM, or malware.

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    Jack³    291

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    Is there anything I can do to fix it?

    You could try running in compatibility mode. Right click the icon and choose troubleshoot compatibility. If you go through the steps you can choose to run in compatibility mode. I have Windows 7 and SC3k runs fine on my laptop. But it is an old game, I bought it for 5 dollars. You might not be able to play it :( .

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    shoptroll    20

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    I ran into this earlier as well.  I believe the issue is related to the auto-updater included with the game and it locks the game up if it can't talk to the servers (which are probably now offline).

     

    I think I got around this issue by setting "Compatibility Mode" to "Windows 98/ME".

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