SC4 Crashed and Burn

[Lycanomics 0]

Ok, where to begin. My copy of SC4 has been functioning fine till this morning. Go to run it...crashes as soon as the intro begins. So, went through the whole shebang, searched plugins folder, removed contents of plugins folder, uninstalled game, re installed game, uninstalled NAM, re installed...nothing. Certainly, I'm frustrated. Attached is a copy of the latest exception report. The things I noticed, and I'm not very good with debug reports, was a .pdb file is missing...the crash seems to occur when we get to the debughelp.dll. So...any help, I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

 

I am also suspecting Vista may be involved. Im running this off an older PC. SC4 does fine on the laptop with Win 7, with identically sized plugin folder. 

 

SimCity Exception Report 2014.08.29 10.57.38.txt

[Cyclone Boom 16,851]

One thing that immediately stands out is the application path.

Yours is "\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\SC4.exe" where it should be "\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe".

 

This SC4.exe looks suspicious and only has a size of 4096 bytes.

 

Based on this evidence, it doesn't appear like you're running a legitimate version of the game, which may be the cause of instabilities.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

There is something wrong with the structure, no doubt.  If you did a reinstall before you got that dump, then what did you install from?