SC4 Deluxe edition-game stops automatically

[Trifolium 4 0]

I don't know whats going on. When i play a time, this game stops. No safe or what..

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

This is called a Crash to Desktop or CTD. We need more information to help you.

In your SimCity 4 folder there is a folder called Exception Reports. Find the most recent .txt file there and open it. It contains a mini-dump. We don't need the whole thing, just the header. Please copy the first 20 lines of this file and post it here. The information in this header will tell us the cause of your problem and whether your game requires updating.

[Tramwhet 53]

Try this:

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-Load up Sim City 4 and wait until the region screen shows up.

-When at the region screen (so everything has loaded nicely) hit Ctrl, Alt and Del and click 'Start Task Manager'.

-In Task Manager click on the 'processes' tab and scroll down until you see Sim City 4.

-Right click on Sim City 4 under processes and click on option that says 'Set Affinity'.

-Another small screen will appear with a small list of all your processors (CPU 0, 1, 2 etc.) each with a small box that is ticked beside it.

-De-select all the CPUs and then re-select just one CPU.

-Hit 'OK', close task manager and click on the SC4 window in the task bar to continue playing.

This works because Sim City 4 was not designed to be used on systems with multiple processors and so cannot handle the 'threading' that is used causing the game to crash. This solution tells the game to use only one processor thereby fixing the problem.

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(http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Sim-City-4-Crashing)

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, that will work if the game is current and up to date. It is certainly the hard way. Once we get some more information as requested we can probably give you a better answer than manual intervention. If you feel confident enough to edit your shortcut you can apply the above method at game start time by adding the option

-CPUCount:1

to the shortcut.

Put the option after the final quote of the pathname preceded by a single space.

However, if your game is not up to at least level 1,1,638 (will show on the exception report) there are other steps as well.