Crash when clicking on advisor link to traffic jam site

[KradenX 0]

This just started 20 minutes ago. I have not made any changes to my set up. My exception report as follows:

 

Exception time: 04/04/2013, at 21:00:15.
Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.
Current thread ID: 5540 (0x000015a4).
Version information:
Application/module path: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe
Application/module version name: SimCity 4
Application/module version: 1.1.641.0
System version: Windows NT 5.1
System memory: 1024 Megabytes total, 1024 Megabytes free.

Exception module:  C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe.
Exception address: 0x00752275. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x0034b275.

Registers
   EAX: 00000004
   EBX: 1edb7c14
   ECX: 00000000
   EDX: 2297f214
   ESI: 2077fd14
   EDI: 1edb7c14
   CS:EIP: 0023:00752275
   SS:ESP: 002b:0018fabc  EBP:2077fd14
   DS:002b  ES:002b  FS:0053  GS:002b
   Flags: 00010246

 

Ends.

 

System Specs:

2.8 quad

8GB RAM

(I use software rendering...my video card is a bulldozer to this game)

 

I've got it set to run on one core so its only reporting 2gb of RAM available which should be enough for this game. Thanks for any help.

 

This bug is observable and repeatable...every time.
 

[Adjiebrotot 94]

Maybe, try to use SC4 Launcher... I'm never try to play SC4 on a quad-core PC :|

 

for me, the advisor's advise is not important 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

That's a new one.  Did it happen mid-game or right after a launch?  Your system looks OK from the dump.

 

Was anything else running?  (Shouldn't matter, but ...).

 

Since your game is from STEAM, is there anything else we need to know? 

 

The dump is showing a branch to location 0.  This is usually a bad pointer.

 

Try changing the advisors into llamas (CTRL+XdollyllamaCTRL+m).  See if it will do it then.  I'd be tempted to reinstall the game.

[KradenX 0]

Apparently it had something to do with NAM 31. I reverted to NAM 30.1 today. Subsequently all crashes have stopped. I can run the game for several hours, even in large cities of 1mil + with no crashes, all on Windows 8 with very advanced hardware.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I guess you'll have to await V31.1 before trying that again.

[akbear 3]

I have had that happen a few times, I just chalked it up to either being related to the scrolling or zooming bug (which to me seems like a mass of commands at one time causing utter confusion as many times when I use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom it does the opposite thing at first so I keep having to remind myself to use the zoom buttons), or that maybe whatever I was working on at the moment caused a transit hover glitch either through responding to the advisor pop-up or the subsequent map move.  What ever the case, I just got in the habit of ignoring him and search for the problem later myself if I was so inclined to do so.