SimCity 4 freezes immediately after opening

[ReshiramLover 50]

It was working fine like 30 minutes ago no all of a sudden it will not run. The window opens but it is completely black. shows nothing. If I open the task manager, it shows "SC4Fix Pre3" as "Not Responding" If I kill the process and reopen SimCity 4, immediately after opening it says the same "Not Responding". In fact the SimCity 4 window always opens up to a "Not Responding" every time I open it.

 

Not sure how in 30 minutes time with nothing added to SimCity 4, it goes from running flawlessly to a 'not responding' state every time I open it.

 

Does anybody know what the problem could be?

[CorinaMarie 29,934]

1 minute ago, ReshiramLover said:

Does anybody know what the problem could be?

I'll guess your computer got confuzzled. Have you tried shutting it down completely and then booting it back up? Sometimes that's the only way to clear out the clutter in it's memory.

[APSMS 1,893]

Sometimes you need to be patient. If you have mods installed, it can take the game upwards of 10-15 minutes to load the necessary files into memory. During this time the game will show a black screen and be unresponsive as you describe.

This is how it goes everytime I start the game. Subsequent starts are faster presumably because the computer remembers the necessary files to start until reboot.

If you wait 5 or 10 minutes, what happens? The game should start up like normal after the Process's RAM usage reaches a certain point. Lately with all the mods I've installed this figure is about 340MB or so, though I have seen both higher and lower values.

If you have an SSD this time should be greatly reduced but it still won't be instantaneous.