sonar1313

OK. I applied the patch. But the real story is what happened when I pulled my region from the folder where they're kept: the game loaded. I can play any of the default regions and load a city and everything. So I tried putting the region back in its folder, loaded the game into a default region, and then loaded up my region: crash. Something ain't right with that region's files.

OK, I've done the following. Just to spoil the joke, I still can't play the game. - Removed plugins. No luck. - Uninstalled the game (following which I also uninstalled the NAM plugins, leaving no "outside" mods) and applied the CCleaner tool as suggested. - Double-checked in RegEdit to make sure registry traces of the game were gone. They were. (No, I didn't futz with anything while there.) - I am currently running my AVG virus scanner, and updated it specially for this scan, which takes ages, but I don't suspect a virus. I haven't noticed anything else on this machine that's out of kilter, so I feel like any virus would have be specifically targeting SC4 and only SC4. Nevertheless we'll see what happens. I can't yet apply the 1.1.638 patch, the site gave me a bandwidth exceeded error message so I'll have to wait. I do have a whole bundle of new exception reports if anyone wants to see those! I confess I did not remove the SC4 folder in My Documents (where the regions, albums, plugins, and exception reports are stored) other than to uninstall the NAM mod. I didn't want to lose my current region, nor the exception reports. Could there be a problem with the region files that it loads upon starting up the game? I don't know how to read the exception report, so I don't know what it's telling me. Let's say for a minute that a virus is not causing the problem, what would be the next bridge to cross? I hope there is not a bridge labeled "reinstall Windows."

Patch update worked alright, so thanks for that. The game is now updated to 1.1.638. But unfortunately it didn't fix the overarching problem. Still can't actually play it.

Here is the exception report from the latest attempt to load (about two minutes ago): Exception time: 03/30/2012, at 11:51:29. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 5568 (0x000015c0). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.610.0 System version: Windows NT 6.0 System memory: 2048 Megabytes total, 520 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x007ab881. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x003a4881. Registers EAX: 00008001 EBX: 05204014 ECX: 05204014 EDX: 00008080 ESI: 00000204 EDI: 0c6918d0 CS:EIP: 001b:007ab881 SS:ESP: 0023:0012fad8 EBP:00000000 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000 Flags: 00210202 I had forgotten that I added the NAM mod some time ago.....it's been so long since I did that I forgot what the game was like without it. I suppose that is why the patch doesn't work.

I am getting the same or similar problem with my game.....it will load up through the intro screens and go through the intro animation (if I let it) or let me click through it, and then at the point where it would normally go to the region view, it just crashes to desktop. My last session ended with a CTD, and now I can't get back in. Some system info: OS: Vista Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor 5000+, 2.6 gHz RAM: 2 GB Video card: NVidia GeForce 8300 GS, 882 MB DirectX version 11 I haven't made any changes to the computer since last time I played the game. Have tried a few things suggested in this and other threads: - Ran checkdisk, nothing. - Ran dxdiag, nothing. - Tried to apply the suggested patch. It did not "take." I got a bunch of errors that read: "warning wpt0036: Old File not found. However, a file of the same name was found. No update done since file contents do not match." The version of the game is still 1.1.610.0. I can provide the entire patch log if necessary but it is mostly that quote, repeated. Don't know what the hell else to do.

Central DC isn't poorly planned. Its suburbs are. Northern Virginia is a sprawling waste of space, filled with silly experiments, all the latest planning fads from the '70s onward, and an ugly, messy conglomeration of giant generic roads with no rhyme or reason to their direction. The whole place is a giant, generic, sprawling blob with no identity whatsoever and no distinction between the place names that make up the area. Falls Church is Fairfax is Vienna is Herndon is McLean is Reston.

Originally posted by: edwoodisgood I-81 in central virginia is definetly one of the worst i've ever been on. Although US-29 through the town I live in, ( Charlottesville, VA) is a very close second.quote> 29 is bad, but I always thought people overrated how bad it really is. I never thought it was actually that hard to get up and down. The only thing I hated was the sudden no-warning change of the left lane into a left-turn-only lane at University/Ivy. Actually just about everything about that intersection blows, but that's a whole other complaint. But 81 is in desperate need of an upgrade to three lanes the whole way down. And fewer cops. (I went to UVA so I definitely felt the 29 pain. Maybe I don't hate it like most people because I purposely avoided it at the bad times of day.)

I'm not a Pennsylvanian, but I've had the misfortune of driving Pennsylvania highways fairly frequently. I agree with you both. I actually like the state quite a bit, but the highways are the most godawful creations anywhere. Obviously Breezewood is a particular point of hatred for me. Encountering a traffic light despite never actually exiting the freeway is preposterous. And I can't remember where exactly (I know it's somewhere near Washington where I-79 and I-70 meet for a while - I think it happens where you're driving north on 79 and you first meet 70) the road drops to one lane and goes around a very, very, very tight ramp which drops the speed limit all the way to 25. 55 MPH speed limit on 70 between the Maryland border and Breezewood is also obnoxious. I hate Pennsylvania freeways - they are indeed the worst east of the Mississippi and probably worse than anything west of the Mississippi as well.

Here's a freeway I'm kinda surprised nobody's mentioned. I-279 through Pittsburgh. I've driven it as a scenic detour (I think Pittsburgh is a beautiful city) and lemme tell ya, if you're not familiar with the area or not on your toes, you will exit in places you didn't mean to. As you approach the Allegheny River going south, you need to be in the right-hand lanes, or you'll exit on 579. You then need to zig all the way over to the left as you drive between the stadiums, or you'll exit. Then as you cross the bridge and the park, you need to zag back to the right, or exit yet again. The best part is, the freeway stacks up - as you cross the bridge, you're underneath another level of freeway, with large concrete beams laid out across the road above for support.....and the signs pointing you in the right direction are in between the beams, so you can't see them til you're almost underneath them, leaving you just enough time to figure out the correct lane. I-5 in Seattle is awful as well. Its design is not bad, but the problem is the geography of the area means the city is strongly north-south aligned, so I-5 is more or less the only way to get from any one place in the metro area to any other. Another freeway that badly needs a renumbering is I-12. By all rights it should be called I-610 or some such. Oh. Somebody mentioned a drawbridge, which reminded me to post about I-264 in Norfolk. 264 is built across a drawbridge as well. It's almost directly followed (or directly preceded, depending on your direction) by a tunnel, and don't get me started on Norfolk drivers and tunnels. The drawbridge is there for several reasons. One, it predates the interstate - they built a second, matching span for the freeway. Two, Norfolk is a shipping city, and the river/bay bottom is soft and sandy and doesn't allow for tall spans - hence the proliferation of bridge-tunnels. And three, a tunnel would have been expensive and wouldn't have allowed exits to either downtown or the shipyard across the river, or any interchange with I-464 to the south. The upshot of the drawbridge is, of course, the occasional bridge lift. Traffic reports on the radio in Norfolk generally leave out the words "backed up" or "stopped" in order to save time, and because it would be redundant day after day. Tunnels make big jams, so they will just breeze through the reports by saying things like "HRBT to Mallory eastbound, all the way to Granby westbound, Downtown Tunnel to City Hall and Effingham" when what they mean is "Expect to wait 45 minutes if you venture anywhere past Granby Street on 64, sucker", and this is generally accepted as a way of life.

Here's the Renaissance Center, or RenCen. Tallest building in the grand city of Detroit (and the state of Michigan) is the 727-foot, 73-story Detroit Marriott in the center of the General Motors world HQ. When built, it was the tallest hotel in the world - that is, it was the tallest building in the world to be used entirely as a hotel, and it remains so in the Western Hemisphere, topped in the world only by a building in Singapore.