cody426

Sweet! I havn't been to the site since last week, and I get quite the surprise. Thanks for the Key!

I think you are looking for ILives Reader, it is at SC4D. https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=656

I have XP, but was starting to have this issue. It is not the exact same, as mine did not crash every time. How much Memory do you have? The problem was getting more frequent as my plugins got larger. What I did was set the building draw speed in game to the slowest setting, and increased my memory to 4GB from 1GB. Then defragmented the hard drive thinking maybe the plugin files were scattered around the drive. Since then the only time it has crashed was when I started zooming in and out with the mouse to try and crash it on purpose, it only took a couple minutes to crash. Do you zoom with the keyboard or mouse? It would crash much more often when I used the mouse wheel to zoom out. It was not a consistent "every time I zoom out" but when my plugin folder went over 2GB, I started saving every time before changing zoom levels because it got so frequent. As of now, it has been much better, but only three days of testing isn't enough to see if it fixed (or at least helped) the crashing. Does it do it when you're in a city tile that has nothing in it, just empty space? When I am in cities that have little or no development I never had the problem, but with more growth it would get worse.

I have an AMD... but, I believe that since SC4 doesn't utilize both cores (don't qoute me, correct me if i am wrong) I would assume that getting a quad core wouldn't be any faster than a Dual core of the same GHz. My best advice when building a new system would be to spend lots of time researching the parts you are going to get. To insure the best compatibility now and for later on down the road (in case you decide to upgrade). This really applies to the Memory and Video Card(s) and if you are going to be overclocking and/or running SLI. If you are just going to run standard speeds and one video card, stick to the good brands, you will have a great reliable system.

I have been having a lot of fun with NHP's "Matinenda". Its got mountains to canals, all big city tiles.

Thats good stuff, the pictures and the words. Thanks for making me laugh.

mine rarely crashes... but in say a whole sunday afternoon (5-8 hours of playing) it sometimes crashes on me, but i think i cause it most the time when im using puzzle pieces. The Comp is an Athlon 64 X2 4400+, Nvidia 7800 GT video, 1GB Ram, XP Pro. I have about 2gigs worth of plugins. The key I think is to have the machine doing as little as possible when you play SC4. Disable automatic updaters and any other software that starts on startup of windows, it just takes up memory and CPU. When looking at the task manager try to get the process count as low as you can and the available memory as high as you can. There is a lot you can do when it comes to cutting back the amount of memory windows/software uses. Make sure the machine is clean inside. Most computers i get that people complain about crashing are overheating when they get put to work. If you have something that monitors temp (CPU and System) check it after booting the computer for the first time that day, after normal operation (internet, music, etc.), and during or right after your running SC4. If its substantially hotter after running the game you may want to look up the acceptable temp. level for you processor and make sure your within the limits. If it is over the limit, shut her down and take some dust-off to it and get the heat sinks cleared out.

like the scenery, looks like oregon. I would guess the city is on the willamette river, probably the northern end right before it runs into the columbia? Portland, basically. There isn't to many citys in oregon with that kind of density Great job i'll be looking forward to more.

You would mean you have 1 dual core processor? That shouldn't matter, it is usually dependant on the motherboard. SC4BOY has a good point, check out corsair.com, they make it very easy.

How many slots are available for RAM? You may have to replace the 512MB stick with a 2GB stick if only room for one. I believe that laptop came with 533 MHz PC2-4200 SODIMM, I am not positive but you will want to find out. It would be easiest to get the same speed memory because you know it will be compatible, but the PC may support 667MHZ. Sticking with the mainstream sites it’s always a good idea. Newegg, tigerdirect, CDW..... Here is a link to memory that I believe will work, but if I were you I would make positively sure before running out and buying anything some person on the net tells you too... > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=2gb+4200+sodimm&x=2&y=28>> > > If you are unsure of how to find out the details about the memory you have currently have and the expandability options calling Compaq (HP) may help. I usually figure these things out using good old Google though. If you have a lot of trouble I can help more.

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This game is looking really good!

^ I agree

BIWDC has a good point about the anti-virus software. That point applies to any software that starts up automatically. They take up CPU time and memory, leaving less for the game. Just for example, my computer has 17 processes running after windows starts. A fresh XP install has about 23 depending on driver bundles. My machine uses approx 90 megs of memory, wile a fresh install of XP uses about 220megs, I have a fresh install in front of me I built today so I thought I would check. I went through my computer and disabled all services and applications that were not needed to run SC4 to get these numbers on my rig, the only other thing it would do is browse the internet (have to keep up with custom content). Since doing this the game never crashes, unless provoked by the mouse scroll wheel. So if i can keep my finger from using the mouse wheel to zoom out, I have very little problems. Before I did this SC4 would usually crash after about an hour, sometimes I would make it two. I understand most poeple are not going to go and disable everything, in fact I would only recomend doing it if you absolutly know what your doing. But it shows how freeing up the CPU and Memory can have a huge impact on performance. Another easy thing to do that is often overlooked: A screw Driver and a can of dust off. If its heat sinks and fans are clogged up to much it may be over-heating, which can make lots more trouble than resource hogging software.

Its used by ATI Catalyst Drivers. It is non-essential for the driver to work properly. You can probably remove it using msconfig, but I am not posotive. Another thing is to un-install the driver and re-install it without the Catalyst Control Center. I have had problems with this on a few machines, but I mostly use/sell nvidia hardware, becuase of my experience with ATI Drivers. The easiest thing to do is download and install the newest driver avialable for you card (unless thats what you already have). Try a custom install and only select the driver and none of the other stuff, like the catalyst control center. That may fix it. I have other ideas if that doesn't work. -cody

Theres that double standard ^ I think what anyone does in thier personal time is that persons own business.

^ Thank You much for the new RHW\MIS; High Quality, Amazingly Fun.

a program called "Art Money" can give you up to 999,999,999. it was always plenty for me.

warrior - "only" is a lot to say about a e6600 C2D, thats a lot faster than what most poeple have, even myself. and like i said, if you don't have at least 1gig (i see i forgot the 1), which you have, it will be slow. The other difference is that you say "I built my computer to learn", that sets you apart from most my customers. They don't want to learn it, they just want easy, fast and reliable. I figure a lot of people on simtropolis are fairly savy computer people considering the modding and BAT stuff, but not everybody is and i wanted to relay problems common users have on a daily basis just so any one thinking about it has some input. Vista has simply not been out long enough to refine it like the other OS's and thats where the negative reviews come from. I think its great you worked out the bugs with vista already, it took us a couple hours to get ours going also. why did linux fail?

I do IT for a living, one thing my company does is builds and sells new computers and laptops. im with liryon, dont use vista unless your ready for a lot of things like this to happen. All i hear from customers that have bought vista is complaints about compatibilty and access to things (like websites, some dont even work with IE7 yet) or even being able to install their favorite software. We have managed to make our vista machine work well with many common programs that say "vista ready" and some that do not, but only after hours of troubleshooting for most. If you like a challange try it out, If you just want the newest OS from microsoft, maybe think twice. When the first service pack comes out it will help fix many issues. Just like windows XP, it will probably be untill service pack two that it actually becomes easy to use on a daily basis with all the software out there. I will admit however, vista has some very nifty features. BTW One customers laptop with vista i have in shop Athlon 64 3800+ 1GB Mem vista home ultimate This is at idle with no programs running computer CPU usage: 48% used physical Mem.: 552786, thats half!! Vistas a resource hog, without atleast gig of Memory and a Dual core processor, it will be pretty slow.