Crashes on startup sequence [Solved]

[buckivie 0]

I haven't played this game in a couple years and just downloaded again off of steam. I'm operating on a Samsung Pro 360. I have played Civ 5 on it since i bought it but it is now not working as well. Back to SimCity, its the Deluxe 4 game (hoping i worded that right). It goes through the startup scenes of the game but then when the game is supposed to start it just crashes back to the steam app. I've just updated the laptop as of today to see if that was it. From what i'm able to lookup i keep seeing it mentioned to find the exe file but i can't even find that anywhere in the places it should be after re installing a couple times. I've lowered firewalls trying to see if that helps as well but nothing. I just want to be able to play the game and it's pretty frustrating so far. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Ulisse Wolf 4,399]

4 minutes ago, buckivie said:

I haven't played this game in a couple years and just downloaded again off of steam. I'm operating on a Samsung Pro 360. I have played Civ 5 on it since i bought it but it is now not working as well. Back to SimCity, its the Deluxe 4 game (hoping i worded that right). It goes through the startup scenes of the game but then when the game is supposed to start it just crashes back to the steam app. I've just updated the laptop as of today to see if that was it. From what i'm able to lookup i keep seeing it mentioned to find the exe file but i can't even find that anywhere in the places it should be after re installing a couple times. I've lowered firewalls trying to see if that helps as well but nothing. I just want to be able to play the game and it's pretty frustrating so far. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Make sure you are using the digital version of SC4 (Steam, GOG, EA App) so that you can follow this tutorial

 

[CorinaMarie 29,574]

4 minutes ago, buckivie said:

Back to SimCity, its the Deluxe 4 game (hoping i worded that right).

As such, I've moved your topic from the the SimCity 2013 forum to the SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues one.

[buckivie 0]

17 minutes ago, Ulisse Wolf said:

Make sure you are using the digital version of SC4 (Steam, GOG, EA App) so that you can follow this tutorial

 

I tried watching this but it's a difficult watch for me and far over what i know what to do. Where does the SC4 Fix files even come from.

[Ulisse Wolf 4,399]

38 minutes ago, buckivie said:

Where does the SC4 Fix files even come from

From here...

 

[SCFonzarelli 2]

I having crashes during the making money tutorial. I followed the Youtube video as best as i could and after that I proceeded to install : All Gameplay Enhancements, NAM, all dependencies, CAM + All compatible mods on the CAM page. Then I went to test it.

 

Did I forget to flip a switch? Is there a certain .exe I should be starting from? How can I start to troubleshoot?

 

EDIT : I fiddled around with all sort of launcher options. From CPU cores to Windowed mode and I just can't get it to stick. I running the steam version of the game on Win 11. I've tried various compatibility modes including Win 9 and XP (sp2 and 3). In-game shadows are set to low

 

Update: If I DO NOT touch the game and let it run, it doesnt crash. Its only when interacting with the game that it crashes. Especially, Zooming and scrolling the map 

 

[Ulisse Wolf 4,399]

7 hours ago, SCFonzarelli said:

I having crashes during the making money tutorial. I followed the Youtube video as best as i could and after that I proceeded to install : All Gameplay Enhancements, NAM, all dependencies, CAM + All compatible mods on the CAM page. Then I went to test it.

 

Did I forget to flip a switch? Is there a certain .exe I should be starting from? How can I start to troubleshoot?

 

EDIT : I fiddled around with all sort of launcher options. From CPU cores to Windowed mode and I just can't get it to stick. I running the steam version of the game on Win 11. I've tried various compatibility modes including Win 9 and XP (sp2 and 3). In-game shadows are set to low

 

Update: If I DO NOT touch the game and let it run, it doesnt crash. Its only when interacting with the game that it crashes. Especially, Zooming and scrolling the map 

 

What GPU do you have?

[SCFonzarelli 2]

Its a 4070 Super

 

[Ulisse Wolf 4,399]

2 hours ago, SCFonzarelli said:

Its a 4070 Super

 

Try this

In the Nvidia Control Panel, You need to change the power management setting for SimCity 4 to “Prefer Maximum Performance.”

[SCFonzarelli 2]

Thank you! I'll report back very soon

EDIT : It's seems to be working! 

There were some brown boxes so I must have lost track of you during the tutorial somewhere, but SC4 WORKS! and that is absolutely beautiful! 

 

Grazie Mille <3