Certain City crashes within ten minutes

[sam10037 18]

Howdy y'all. I have been experiencing an error I have never seen before in the years I have been playing SimCity 4. I know that the game crashes "A LOT" but I can have up to 3-6 hours of play time before anything like that happens. Anyways back to the point; one of my cities in my region has been giving me problems. Unlike the other cities, this city crashes after the first ten minutes of the game. I was playing on this city one day when it did crash and ever since that day this problem has kept on coming back. My other cities have roughly the same population even more but its only this city that I have problems with. I have noted that as I start to plop and zone, it does reduce the time to crash from 10 minutes to 5 minutes for example. I have roughly 1.5 gb of mods and other plugins.

Here's the first 20 lines (or so) of the exception report:

Exception time: 06/17/2012, at 08:11:40.

Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.

Current thread ID: 5688 (0x00001638).

Version information:

Application/module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe

Application/module version name: SimCity 4

Application/module version: 1.1.640.0

System version: Windows NT 6.1

System memory: 4096 Megabytes total, 1596 Megabytes free.

Exception module: .

Exception address: 0x25783020. Section:Offset: 0x00:0x00000000.

Registers

EAX: 00000003

EBX: 130289dc

ECX: 1fa65f38

EDX: 00a9d450

ESI: 1fa65f38

EDI: 0000422c

CS:EIP: 0023:25783020

SS:ESP: 002b:0018f8e0 EBP:06000301

DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b

Flags: 00010293

My target on .exe:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" \ -intro:off -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -d:hardware\ -CPUcount:4

Thanks for y'all help

  Edited June 17, 2012 by sam10037  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

There is nothing off-base in your dump.

What I suspect is that you have run into the overrun problem that provokes what I believe is an off-by-one bug in the queuing code. The avoidance strategy that I use is to save frequently. Use the in-game save (CTRL+s), and drop it into the conversation frequently. I do it every time I zone a big patch, or change the water layout. If nothing else, set an alarm clock for about 15 minutes to remind you. This strategy seems to reset whatever problem is accumulating.

Treat your play disk with great respect. They are getting very hard to find.

  Edited June 17, 2012 by A Nonny Moose  

[steelersfan95 6]

the big city tutorial crashes as soon as i open it

edit 1 hour later

i tested it again and it works now so im happy that it fixed itself

  Edited June 17, 2012 by steelersfan95  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

the big city tutorial crashes as soon as i open it

edit 1 hour later

i tested it again and it works now so im happy that it fixed itself

Nothing on a computer fixes itself. Either something was changed in the system or you did something to the files.

[colco2121 55]

There could be conflicting plugins.

Also use the Ctrl+s ingame save function, and limit your plugins to a certain size.

Best,

colco2121.

[sam10037 18]

There is nothing off-base in your dump.

What I suspect is that you have run into the overrun problem that provokes what I believe is an off-by-one bug in the queuing code. The avoidance strategy that I use is to save frequently. Use the in-game save (CTRL+s), and drop it into the conversation frequently. I do it every time I zone a big patch, or change the water layout. If nothing else, set an alarm clock for about 15 minutes to remind you. This strategy seems to reset whatever problem is accumulating.

Treat your play disk with great respect. They are getting very hard to find.

I tried that and it hasn't worked though I have found out that the city won't crash when paused. It only crashes either while playing the game or zoning/plopping/etc.

There could be conflicting plugins.

Also use the Ctrl+s ingame save function, and limit your plugins to a certain size.

Best,

colco2121.

I am using a compressed plugins folder that has three files and unfortunately I haven't seen conflicts in my other cities. Should I destroy some of my more recent development and see what happens?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Don't do anything rash that you don't have a back up for. Please post a screen shot of your city. (CTRL+SHIFT+s)

[nukeu123 307]

sounds like your city possess and broken plugin

[sam10037 18]

Don't do anything rash that you don't have a back up for. Please post a screen shot of your city. (CTRL+SHIFT+s)

This is my problem city. If you want closer up pictures of new development or possibly other cities/region please tell me.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Nice city. In the upper right quadrant leading to the avenue round about among all the R zoning, what is that white area where there should be an avenue?

[sam10037 18]

Nice city. In the upper right quadrant leading to the avenue round about among all the R zoning, what is that white area where there should be an avenue?

Thank you . That's actually parks that I have plopped down. My visual effects are on medium so at far distances details don't get shown.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Can't think of anything that might make your city just up an crash after 10 minutes. Start it up and try an in-game save (CTRL+S). This sometimes resets whatever is going awry.

[sam10037 18]

Can't think of anything that might make your city just up an crash after 10 minutes. Start it up and try an in-game save (CTRL+S). This sometimes resets whatever is going awry.

Its all fixed now. It seems there was something wrong with the SAM. The parking lot street was conflicting with something else. After destroying the parking lot street the game worked flawlessly. Thanks everybody for your help!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Why would one texture an street as a parking-lot?

[Jazzmaster 716]

Why would one texture an street as a parking-lot?

I think the idea was to have the ability to drag parking lots and therefore 'custom' parking lots on the go without having to lot individually, but I don't even think they carried parking lot functionality and with any kind of street mod they could look a bit odd.

  Edited June 26, 2012 by The Jazzmaster  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Any time I've laid down SAM parking textures as lots, nothing used them. I am not sure those tiles are transit enabled.

[rewright 804]

I'm not sure this problem is the same as one I had a couple of years ago when I got my quad-core machine. As soon as a city got any size to it the game would begin crashing. The fix was as follows:

In the Task Manager (Ctl/Alt/Del) right click on the SC4 process and set the Priority to 'High' and in Affinity disable all but one processor.

The game has run perfect since.

Dick Wright

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Whatever works. Most people just add the option -cpucount:1 to their command line (target). If you do this don't forget that there has to be a space before every option hyphen.