Region not Displaying Cities...

[Ragamuffin 9]

Good afternoon Simtropolis, I'm a long time user but a small-time poster. Anyway, I'm having a graphical glitch with the game... nothing major, but it is annoying. On the region map, my cities... just don't show. It just shows a big, green, Maxis-terrain-color square where it should show all my beautiful skyscrapers. I'm wondering what caused this and what could fix it. It could be a problem with my map.... it is big. It's 8x8 large tiles. It might be due to a crash. My cities showed on the region until I had a CTD a couple hours after I started the region. It might be due to my OS... I'm running Windows 7 32 bit. I'm not really sure what else to do... I've looked all over, but I haven't seen this problem anywhere else. Any help would be greatly appreciated... thank you!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Welcome to the conversation.

This is a known problem and usually it is harmless. What has happened is a hiccup during a save. This is often caused by the loose nut holding your fingers to the keyboard. If you switch away from the game while waiting for a save to complete, the thumbnail of the city gets lost and not posted to the region. If you open your city, it should come up normally. Do another save and wait for it to finish.

[Ragamuffin 9]

Wow, that simple, huh? I always play in windowed mode so that would explain it. Thank you!

Welcome to the conversation.

This is a known problem and usually it is harmless. What has happened is a hiccup during a save. This is often caused by the loose nut holding your fingers to the keyboard. If you switch away from the game while waiting for a save to complete, the thumbnail of the city gets lost and not posted to the region. If you open your city, it should come up normally. Do another save and wait for it to finish.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Wow, that simple, huh? I always play in windowed mode so that would explain it. Thank you!

Welcome to the conversation.

This is a known problem and usually it is harmless. What has happened is a hiccup during a save. This is often caused by the loose nut holding your fingers to the keyboard. If you switch away from the game while waiting for a save to complete, the thumbnail of the city gets lost and not posted to the region. If you open your city, it should come up normally. Do another save and wait for it to finish.

Yup. It has its requirements. Losing focus does funny things as it doesn't work well in the background.