Game Freezes While Saving on new laptop [Solved]

[rayfuenz 2]

Preface: 

I am very computer illiterate but have tried everything I can think of/find in the forum before asking for help. Please be patient with me. 

 

Situation: 

I play SC4 Rush Hour on GOG, and have NAM and a bunch of other mods downloaded/installed on it. I’ve been using a very basic old work laptop to play on (told you I wasn’t a computer guy – I’m amazed it’s worked so far).

 

I was recently gifted a new (to me) gaming laptop and am trying to get set up to play SC4 on it (specs for the laptop are attached). I tried just installing it and moving my plugins over and that didn’t work out of course. So since this is (to me) a fancy gaming laptop, I decided to start from scratch and try to install it the right way with all of the recommended performance and graphics according to the SimCity 4 Ultimate Guide. 

 

I started with what I believe to be a blank slate and followed the ultimate guide and then the Performance and Graphics list - critical mods to install exactly according to the instructions. I finished installing the critical performance and graphics mods, and finally got the game “working,” meaning the game loaded and opened my region and then a city (I used the DgVoodoo 2 DirectX Wrapper to launch it).

 

The problem is that when I try to save the city to exit, the computer freezes with the hourglass/loading mouse pointer and I have to force close the program in order to make it go away (and it doesn’t save).

 

Question: 

I have no idea what to do next. I’ve scoured the threads and the amount of information is overwhelming - I don’t understand most of it. None of the “freezing while trying to save” threads seem to match up with my situation from what I could tell? Please help! At this point I’m willing to pay someone to remote in and just fix it 

[rsc204 21,808]

Are you using OneDrive for your Documents folder? This messes with SC4 saving as it takes a split second to sync updates and this messes with the process. Best to keep your SimCity 4 saves elsewhere on a local disk (one installed in your computer). 

[rayfuenz 2]

Thank you - I got this one resolved. It may have been the OneDrive thing.