SimCity 4 crashed when I'm building my city

[citybuilder234 37]

I was building my city of Townsville in SC4. It went good so far, then as I was building my freeway and an avenue in my city, SC4 crashed to desktop. That doesn't make sense. I spent two years organizing my plugins folder and it still crashed as of 20 minutes ago. I hate when when this happens every time I start building my cities in SC4, it frustrates me a lot. I even made a report on the "Crash to Desktop? Look Here First" thread and hasn't been any response in the past few days since I posted. Here is the information:

I am using a digital copy of SC4 I bought on Steam.

Operating system: Windows 7 (64 bit)

RAM: 8GB

Processor: AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor

Crash Report:

Spoiler

 

Exception time: 06/10/2017, at 19:20:43.
Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.
Current thread ID: 7128 (0x00001bd8).
Version information:
Application/module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\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 6.1
System memory: 4096 Megabytes total, 3664 Megabytes free.

Exception module:  .
Exception address: 0x4838b00c. Section:Offset: 0x00:0x00000000.

Registers
   EAX: 1afa0908
   EBX: 02854558
   ECX: 1afa0748
   EDX: 0000006f
   ESI: 1afa0748
   EDI: 0286021c
   CS:EIP: 0023:4838b00c
   SS:ESP: 002b:09b9feb8  EBP:09b9fec8
   DS:002b  ES:002b  FS:0053  GS:002b
   Flags: 00010202

Loaded Modules
   Address          Size Module             Path
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   0x00400000    8511488 SimCity 4.exe      C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe
   0x77b60000    1572864 ntdll.dll          C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
   0x755a0000    1114112 kernel32.dll       C:\Windows\syswow64\kernel32.dll
   0x76420000     290816 KERNELBASE.dll     C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
   0x76f10000     659456 ADVAPI32.dll       C:\Windows\syswow64\ADVAPI32.dll
   0x76a60000     704512 msvcrt.dll         C:\Windows\syswow64\msvcrt.dll
   0x76c20000     102400 sechost.dll        C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll
   0x76dd0000     983040 RPCRT4.dll         C:\Windows\syswow64\RPCRT4.dll
   0x75400000     393216 SspiCli.dll        C:\Windows\syswow64\SspiCli.dll
   0x753f0000      49152 CRYPTBASE.dll      C:\Windows\syswow64\CRYPTBASE.dll
   0x71130000      28672 WSOCK32.dll        C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.dll
   0x76600000     217088 WS2_32.dll         C:\Windows\syswow64\WS2_32.dll
   0x75530000      24576 NSI.dll            C:\Windows\syswow64\NSI.dll
   0x767b0000    2797568 WININET.dll        C:\Windows\syswow64\WININET.dll
   0x76ca0000      16384 api-ms-win-downlev C:\Windows\syswow64\api-ms-win-downlevel-user32-l1-1-0.dll
   0x76500000    1048576 user32.DLL         C:\Windows\syswow64\user32.DLL
   0x77490000     589824 GDI32.dll          C:\Windows\syswow64\GDI32.dll
   0x76c10000      40960 LPK.dll            C:\Windows\syswow64\LPK.dll
   0x76b40000     643072 USP10.dll          C:\Windows\syswow64\USP10.dll
   0x75540000      16384 api-ms-win-downlev C:\Windows\syswow64\api-ms-win-downlevel-shlwapi-l1-1-0.dll
   0x77430000     356352 shlwapi.DLL        C:\Windows\syswow64\shlwapi.DLL
   0x76640000      16384 api-ms-win-downlev C:\Windows\syswow64\api-ms-win-downlevel-version-l1-1-0.dll
   0x75320000      36864 version.DLL        C:\Windows\system32\version.DLL
   0x76ec0000      12288 api-ms-win-downlev C:\Windows\syswow64\api-ms-win-downlevel-normaliz-l1-1-0.dll
   0x77280000      12288 normaliz.DLL       C:\Windows\syswow64\normaliz.DLL
   0x77520000    2314240 iertutil.dll       C:\Windows\syswow64\iertutil.dll
   0x77270000      20480 api-ms-win-downlev C:\Windows\syswow64\api-ms-win-downlevel-advapi32-l1-1-0.dll
   0x76650000      94208 USERENV.dll        C:\Windows\syswow64\USERENV.dll
   0x77b30000      45056 profapi.dll        C:\Windows\syswow64\profapi.dll
   0x75770000   12890112 SHELL32.dll        C:\Windows\syswow64\SHELL32.dll
   0x731e0000     466944 DSOUND.dll         C:\Windows\system32\DSOUND.dll
   0x76fc0000    1429504 ole32.dll          C:\Windows\syswow64\ole32.dll
   0x744c0000     204800 WINMM.dll          C:\Windows\system32\WINMM.dll
   0x72cc0000     151552 POWRPROF.dll       C:\Windows\system32\POWRPROF.dll
   0x77290000    1691648 SETUPAPI.dll       C:\Windows\syswow64\SETUPAPI.dll
   0x76be0000     159744 CFGMGR32.dll       C:\Windows\syswow64\CFGMGR32.dll
   0x76cb0000     593920 OLEAUT32.dll       C:\Windows\syswow64\OLEAUT32.dll
   0x76b20000      73728 DEVOBJ.dll         C:\Windows\syswow64\DEVOBJ.dll
   0x5bc30000     819200 OPENGL32.dll       C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
   0x6e3e0000     139264 GLU32.dll          C:\Windows\system32\GLU32.dll
   0x5bb40000     946176 DDRAW.dll          C:\Windows\system32\DDRAW.dll
   0x734a0000      24576 DCIMAN32.dll       C:\Windows\system32\DCIMAN32.dll
   0x70090000      77824 dwmapi.dll         C:\Windows\system32\dwmapi.dll
   0x74220000     135168 MSVFW32.dll        C:\Windows\system32\MSVFW32.dll
   0x6f670000     540672 COMCTL32.dll       C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_5.82.7601.18837_none_ec86b8d6858ec0bc\COMCTL32.dll
   0x763c0000     393216 IMM32.dll          C:\Windows\syswow64\IMM32.dll
   0x75460000     839680 MSCTF.dll          C:\Windows\syswow64\MSCTF.dll
   0x6f840000     311296 apphelp.dll        C:\Windows\system32\apphelp.dll
   0x58290000    2199552 AcGenral.DLL       C:\Windows\AppPatch\AcGenral.DLL
   0x6fad0000     524288 UxTheme.dll        C:\Windows\system32\UxTheme.dll
   0x6ee20000      61440 samcli.dll         C:\Windows\system32\samcli.dll
   0x73ab0000      81920 MSACM32.dll        C:\Windows\system32\MSACM32.dll
   0x73400000      12288 sfc.dll            C:\Windows\system32\sfc.dll
   0x733f0000      53248 sfc_os.DLL         C:\Windows\system32\sfc_os.DLL
   0x77120000    1355776 urlmon.dll         C:\Windows\syswow64\urlmon.dll
   0x76f00000      16384 api-ms-win-downlev C:\Windows\syswow64\api-ms-win-downlevel-ole32-l1-1-0.dll
   0x6e410000      73728 MPR.dll            C:\Windows\system32\MPR.dll
   0x5da80000    1200128 gameoverlayrendere C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\gameoverlayrenderer.dll
   0x76b10000      20480 PSAPI.DLL          C:\Windows\syswow64\PSAPI.DLL
   0x6fda0000    1695744 comctl32.dll       C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.18837_none_41e855142bd5705d\comctl32.dll
   0x06330000     536576 CLBCatQ.DLL        C:\Windows\syswow64\CLBCatQ.DLL
   0x6f9d0000    1003520 propsys.dll        C:\Windows\system32\propsys.dll
   0x75290000     135168 ntmarta.dll        C:\Windows\system32\ntmarta.dll
   0x75550000     282624 WLDAP32.dll        C:\Windows\syswow64\WLDAP32.dll
   0x6fd00000     335872 rasapi32.dll       C:\Windows\system32\rasapi32.dll
   0x6ff40000      86016 rasman.dll         C:\Windows\system32\rasman.dll
   0x5da60000     118784 SC4Fix.dll         C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Plugins\SC4Fix.dll
   0x76670000    1183744 CRYPT32.dll        C:\Windows\syswow64\CRYPT32.dll
   0x767a0000      49152 MSASN1.dll         C:\Windows\syswow64\MSASN1.dll
   0x70110000      94208 CRYPTSP.dll        C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTSP.dll
   0x700d0000     241664 rsaenh.dll         C:\Windows\system32\rsaenh.dll
   0x6f8e0000      94208 bcrypt.dll         C:\Windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
   0x6f8a0000     249856 bcryptprimitives.d C:\Windows\SysWOW64\bcryptprimitives.dll
   0x62d00000     233472 ncrypt.dll         C:\Windows\system32\ncrypt.dll
   0x62ce0000      90112 GPAPI.dll          C:\Windows\system32\GPAPI.dll
   0x62cc0000     118784 cryptnet.dll       C:\Windows\system32\cryptnet.dll
   0x6e3a0000      24576 SensApi.dll        C:\Windows\system32\SensApi.dll
   0x518e0000   12677120 nvd3dum.dll        C:\Windows\system32\nvd3dum.dll
   0x58600000     835584 D3DIM700.DLL       C:\Windows\system32\D3DIM700.DLL
   0x73ad0000     233472 MMDevApi.dll       C:\Windows\System32\MMDevApi.dll
   0x73610000     221184 AUDIOSES.DLL       C:\Windows\system32\AUDIOSES.DLL
   0x73440000      32768 Secur32.dll        C:\Windows\system32\Secur32.dll
   0x6fbc0000      16384 api-ms-win-downlev C:\Windows\system32\api-ms-win-downlevel-advapi32-l2-1-0.dll
   0x09ea0000     360448 LavasoftTcpService C:\Windows\system32\LavasoftTcpService.dll
   0x710c0000     245760 MSWSOCK.dll        C:\Windows\system32\MSWSOCK.dll
   0x710a0000     114688 IPHLPAPI.DLL       C:\Windows\system32\IPHLPAPI.DLL
   0x71090000      28672 WINNSI.DLL         C:\Windows\system32\WINNSI.DLL
   0x6f760000      24576 wship6.dll         C:\Windows\System32\wship6.dll
   0x73b80000      28672 avrt.dll           C:\Windows\system32\avrt.dll
   0x6d510000     507904 DbgHelp.dll        C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\DbgHelp.dll

Call stack:
(Debug information (.pdb files) appears to be absent).
0x0000:0x00000000 .
GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 363568

GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 367989

GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 362781

GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 154512

GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 76436

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 18

RtlInitializeExceptionChain() + 99

RtlInitializeExceptionChain() + 54

Stack data: (ESP is 0x09b9feb8)
0x09b9fd38   acfdb909 d0890000 04000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fd58   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fd78   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fd98   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fdb8   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fdd8   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fdf8   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fe18   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fe38   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fe58   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x09b9fe78   00000000 00000000 58458502 00000000 c8feb909 7e0b9300 20159202 9826b600
0x09b9fe98   14028602 01458502 00000000 c8feb909 7e0b9300 a8b99202 b8108502 e8d89200
0x09b9feb8   2d6a9600 14028602 14028602 58458502 ecfeb909 727b9600 4807fa1a 9ec85b00
0x09b9fed8   58458502 58eda800 74028602 a26c8432 4807fa1a 14ffb909 1a679600 14000000
0x09b9fef8   00000000 94278502 132c9300 14028602 18458502 1cf81f25 14028602 40ffb909
0x09b9ff18   8d399300 f4669600 14228502 4c458502 18458502 14f81f25 30f81f25 94fb1f25
0x09b9ff38   14000000 d6d25b00 88ffb909 91089200 4c458502 00000000 b87a0006 b87a0006
0x09b9ff58   e0529f00 b4088502 00000000 00000000 b87a0006 050000c0 60ffb909 10f9b909
0x09b9ff78   c4ffb909 d8f89e00 9067ae00 00000000 94ffb909 6a335b75 b87a0006 d4ffb909
0x09b9ff98   0299b977 b87a0006 9f90b37b 00000000 00000000 b87a0006 00000000 00000000
0x09b9ffb8   00000000 a0ffb909 00000000 ffffffff c558bd77 6ba9b205 00000000 ecffb909
0x09b9ffd8   d598b977 71529f00 b87a0006 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 71529f00
   Instruction data is not readable -- Unable to get the EIP.

Configuration Log:

Log generated on 6/10/2017, 17:40

Flags
-----
hardwareDriver = true
DXT = true
fullscreen = true
MMX = true
FPU = true
backingStore = true
forcedFSAA = false

Strings
-------
userName = godzillafansteve567
appName = SimCity 4
version = 1.1.641.0
osVersion = Windows NT 6.1
computerName = STEPHENJR
CPU = AuthenticAMD
sglDriverName = DirectX
sglDriverVersion = 2.0
driverName = nvd3dum.dll
driverVersion = 9.18.13.5012, GUID: D7B71E3E-530A-11CF-D277-9FA00EC2CD35
cardName = NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
cardVersion = Vendor: 10de, Device: 104a, Board: 809f1462, Chipset: 00a1
cardIdentity = NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
soundDriverName =
soundCardName = Primary Sound Driver
buildType = Release

Numbers
-------
cpuSpeed = 3800
memory = 4096
freeMemory = 4096
screenWidth = 1024
screenHeight = 768
screenBPP = 16
videoMemory = 979
textureMemory = 979
textureStages = 8
bogoFPS = 0
bogoMPPS = 0

Rules
-----
applying Sound
applying high sound detail
applying City Detail and Day/Night Settings
applying low computer power>
applying high computer power
  option 9 = 3
  option 13 = 1
  option 15 = 3
applying Texture Quality and Building Variety Settings
applying low memory>
applying high memory
  option 3 = 3
  option 14 = 3
applying Variable Speed Automata
applying default
  option 10 = 1
applying Standard hardware
  option 0 = 1
  option 1 = 1
  option 2 = 1
  option 4 = 0
  option 5 = 1
  option 8 = 1
  option 7 = 1
  option 6 = 1
  option 11 = 0
  option 12 = 0
applying Standard hardware>
  option 1 = 2
applying Standard hardware>>
  option 0 = 2
applying Standard hardware>>>
  option 2 = 2
applying Standard hardware>>>>
  option 4 = 1
applying Standard hardware>>>>>
  option 11 = 1
applying Two stages
applying Lotsa vidmem
applying Not Slow GeForce
applying Fast card
applying Fast card>
  option 12 = 1
applying Fast card>>
  option 1 = 3
applying Fast card>>>
  option 0 = 3
applying Fast card>>>>
  option 2 = 3
applying Fast card>>>>>
  option 4 = 1

Options
-------
Visual Effects       current:   3 recommended:   3
Cars/Sims            current:   3 recommended:   3
Shadows              current:   3 recommended:   3
Atmospheric effects  current:   1 recommended:   1
Water effects        current:   1 recommended:   1
Software/Hardware    current:   1 recommended:   1
Cursor               current:   1 recommended:   1
VariableSpeedAutomata current:   1 recommended:   1
Translucent UI       current:   1 recommended:   1
Graphic Detail       current:   3 recommended:   3
Building Load Speed  current:   3 recommended:   3
Texture Quality      current:   3 recommended:   3

Properties
-------
forcesoftwaredriver = false
renderdynamicview = true
renderstaticview = true
renderwatereffects = true
rendercloudsandfog = true
forcepointsampling = false
forcebilinear = false
forcenoalphablend = false
forcenoalphatest = false
rendershadows = true
renderdecals = true
usesecondstage = true
forcedebugtexture = false
renderparticleeffects = true
renderflorashadows = true
renderterrain = true
showupdateregions = false
usecursoreffects = true
drawlottextures = true
drawlotfoundations = true
drawlotwalls = true
forcetexturerepeat = false
usescreenshake = true
renderui = true
useupdaterectclipping = true
usevertexbuffers = true
showboundingboxes = false
useoverlayculling = true
rendersnapshot = false
noaddsigned = false
nopartialbackingstorecopies = false
usescreenflash = true
renderautomata = true
preferopaque = false
displayalertborders = true
drawlotopaquetextures = true
useviewcleanup = false
doautozoomandrotationchanges = true

viewoffsety = 0
viewoffsetx = 0
texturebits = 32
lodoffset = 0
shadowdebug = 0
maxparticlestarget = 10000
particlelodoffset = 0
effectprioritylevel = 5
backingstoremaxzoomall = 5
backingstoremaxzoombuildingsprops = 5
backingstoremaxzoomterrain = 5
backingstoremaxzoomflora = 5
shadowquality = 2
minvehiclezoom = 3
minpedzoom = 4
cursortype = 1
depthoffset = 2
debugtexture = 0
dirtyrectmergeframes = 2
sounddetail = 2
buildingvariety = 2
buildingloaderspeed = 1
modellodoffset = 0
stringtexturecachesize = 1024

particleeffectslod = 5
splattexturescale = 50
texbindmaxfree = 8
particledensity = 1
particledamping = 0
particlescale = 1
lightingupdatedelta = 0.0001
shadowmodelthreshold = 12
demolishmodelthreshold = 12
rendermodelthreshold = 6
rendermodelthresholdscroll = 40
particlesizethreshold = 300
maxvehiclepct = 1
maxpedpct = 1
opaqueuialphavalue = 0.55

 

 

I don't know why, but I need to know why this keeps happening every time I start building my cities in SC4.

[CorinaMarie 29,934]

14 minutes ago, citybuilder234 said:

I even made a report on the "Crash to Desktop? Look Here First"

Good plan, but I feel that one sometimes gets overlooked cause it's way up there pinned and not as noticeable that there are new replies. I happen to follow that thread so I did get beeped, but I'm not much of an expert on the techy side of why.

I presume you've checked the obvious stuff like:

• Have -CPUCount:1 in your startup target line
• Have SC4Fix.Dll installed
• Renamed your Plugins folder temporarily and tried a new city

 

Now me just doing the moderator thing. I wore out my mouse wheel scrolling thru that whole report so I'm going to tuck it into a spoiler box.

[SimCoug 5,977]

@citybuilder234,  Like you, CTD's were the most frustrating thing with SC4.  I gave the game a rest on numerous occasions out of frustration.  However, with the first two fixes that CorinaMarie outlined, I haven't had a CTD in ages.  Just to double check, was the city tile you were building in brand new?  If not, had you changed your plugin folder recently?  Most likely, a CTD like you just described is the result of a plugin problem.  

[Fantozzi 4,069]

Sadly it's some kind of logic - the more custom content there is the more likely something will conflict with something. Normally games run fine but if CTD you'll have to drag down the problem - as there are so much possibilities.

If you have already SC4Fix.Dll installed as @CorinaMarie said - next thing I would assume is a faulty growable plugin (where 'faulty' can mean different things and what may work with 5000 other plugins may cause problems with number 5001). 

You did your last save when this faulty growable started to grow. Now everytime you start the game it will take a certain amount of ingame days - the construction time - untill the lot is completed and then - CTD. So this CTD would repeat again and again after some time. 

It may happen you always try to do the same thing. You start building a highway and the game crashes. You restart the game and try again to build the highway. And again it crashes. So you get the impression it's crashing because you're building the highway. But instead it's a faulty growable that always grows again after restarting while you are repeating your actions.

What I try to explain: on growables it may happen that it's been in your plugin folder for a long time - but it never grew so far. With so much diversity it may happen that an error in your plugin folder  may not show up for hundred of ingame years but then beginning one fine day constantly.

And you say: but I didn't change nothing! And you are even right - faulty growables are timed detonators you never will know when they hit.

So if the CTD happens constantly after some time you reloaded last save - you would go with this method to identify which plugin causes the CTD. 

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

15 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

Have -CPUCount:1 in your startup target line

I looked in his log and did not see this rule being applied, so it appears to be missing. Given his quad-core rig, it's my prime suspect.