CTD after installing a new NAM

[wmc78 1]

I installed a new NAM, 31.2, the game runs fine with it, but now i seem to have CTD everytime I put out a hospital, school, police or fire, it does not matter who made the bat, it will crash regardless. If I got back into the game and reload it then I can put out schools, hospital etc etc but then five minuttes later it will crash.

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

Thank you.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, it has nothing to do with the NAM.  It does have a lot to do with the size of your Plugins tables in memory and the configuration of your machine and short-cut target.

 

Please tell us: Your machine configuration: Number of cores, Amount of real memory, Operating system and update status.

 

Also what video card you have and whether you are running hardware rendering or software.

 

Size of your plugins suite.  (Disk space occupied will do, even though this is irrelevant after the program has loaded).

 

Also, please post the image of your short-cut's target box.  There are some necessary options with newer machines.

 

Do you have an HD (16:9) monitor?  If so, what are the screen dimensions?

 

We can probably help you to fit this elephant into your bread box.

[wmc78 1]

this is the pc i have, i have 455g free out of 500g SC4 is the only thing i have on this pc, i have got roughly 3.5g of plugins. when i installed the game onto this pc the game automatically runs on the hardware setting, I also went to the lex to get the sku update etc.

 

This a new pc to me, i had an old pc from where i tranferred all the plugins from, i DL the new nam and put all the plugins in startred the game and then ran into the problems

 

here is the shortcut for sc4

 

I have tft panel monitor it running 1440x900

 

I think i have give you all the info. I ran into more problems last night where certain tiles of the region wont not load and give a ctd every time i tried to load them, i didnt have any plugins on the city tiles nor did i have any plugins in either. I hope you can help.

 

Many thanks

[MandelSoft 2,769]

It seems that you only have 3GB of RAM. It's recommended to play SimCity 4 on a machine with 4GB RAM or more.

[z1 566]

It seems that you only have 3GB of RAM. It's recommended to play SimCity 4 on a machine with 4GB RAM or more.

 

Especially if you're using the NAM.

[Durfsurn 539]

Why is 4GB recommended? I play - and even record - fine with 2.

[wmc78 1]

the last pc i had only had 2g of ram and worked great never had 4g of ram on any on the pc i played sc4

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

It should run if you are not running anything else in the background.  Try it in full screen mode.  Just add -f to your short cut parameters.  If it doesn't work, you can revert with -w.

 

NAM 31.2 is a little full of itself and expects to be able to set the O/S to run with a huge user space allowance.  You might have to increase the size of your paging file.  Why are you running Vista (it is known to be a beta for Windows 7)?

 

I have essentially the same machine made by an OEM builder to order.  SC4 runs fine for me.  You could also try it in software rendering; -d:software

[wmc78 1]

ok i will give it a try and let you know how it goes, thank you for the time and effort to help

 

many thanks