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Update: --- Well, I've found a "sort of" solution, I downloaded VMPlayer from www.vmware.com and installed XP SP3 into that. Running SC4RH in an XP Window within Windows 7 appears to work, this rules out any hardware conflict and leaves me with a software based problem. I only ran SC4RH for about 5 minutes last night on a completely blank but patched install, it was late, so I cannot confirm stability yet. Either: - - A Windows 7 driver is duff but the XP one is OK - Windows 7 itself has an issue with some aspect of SC4RH combined with the driver whereas with XP and the same combo of driver and SC4RH is OK. - I set the resolution to 1024x768 in the window, trying to set this to 1366x768 tonight to check widescreen. I dunno who's problem it is to fix it now. New Driver? New Windows Update? New SC4RH patch? No idea ... at least I can play it a little now.

heya, I tried it but still didnn't work, I was sure that one was going to be the issue I even dropped the resolution to 800x600x32 and windowed mode ..... still no joy

You could be right *slaps forehead* it never occured to me that the widescreen monitor is the problem. Cheers, i'll try it tonight

Originally posted by: SC4BOY There are 10's of thousands of people working the game fine.. why do think your problem is unique? RH, Deluxe, even people playing plain vanilla.. I mean really! quote> What's with the attitude? I'm having a problem playing SC4 on my Laptop and was asking people for advice on getting it working. I know it does work as I have been doing a lot a research into it on other websites, I can also list countless people who are experiencing the same issue as my own. I'd assumed that this, being the probably biggest collection of SC players, was a good place to ask for advice as there is a higher chance that somebody here may have had and fixed the issue.

heya,just tried SC4 Deluxe Edition and that has the same fault too

I've got it installing onto my XP Desktop at least, needed to run the install from the HDD. Even copying the files off the disk kept crashing Windows Explorer, which is strange because no other CDs/DVDs or Games have this problem Just need to fix Windows 7 Laptop now

And just to make matters worse, I thought I'd install it on my XP desktop. It didn't install, just got as far as disk 2 then froze ... didn't even get chance the install the XPack I'm doomed never to play SC4 again

Set virtual memory to 4096 on both drives and still no joy (partitioned drive not 2 seperates) Any other thoughts?

Heya Here is the spec of the laptop - I've just increased virtual memory to see if that helps. *crosses fingers* OS = Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit CPU = Intel Celeron D 220 (1.2GHz) RAM = 3.0GB HDD = 250GB GFx = Onboard sharing 128MB of RAM (haven't seen an option to change this ) Model = ASUS X5DC

Heya Again, I've installed that patch but sadly it's still the same fault (

Heya, thanks I'm trying it in compatibility mode as XP SP2 and a as an administrator. I've also tried various combinations of the other tick boxes. I'll try the bat patch, I did notice on the log that there is an ACCESS_VIOLATION error, but I cannot see what it cannot access. If can write to the documents folder as this is where the exception log is. thanks again

I just found this exception report, posted it here if it's of any help Exception time: 02/10/2010, at 22:15:28. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 5016 (0x00001398). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.638.0 System version: Windows NT 6.1 System memory: 2944 Megabytes total, 1668 Megabytes free. Exception module: . Exception address: 0x06300057. Sectionffset: 0x00:0x00000000. Registers EAX: 06d39cc0 EBX: 06d39d20 ECX: 06d39ce0 EDX: 06d39d00 ESI: 000000fc EDI: 00000020 CS:EIP: 0023:06300057 SS:ESP: 002b:0018df98 EBP:0018df9c DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b Flags: 00010206 Loaded Modules Address Size Module Path ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x00400000 8187904 SimCity 4.exe C:\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe 0x77d80000 1572864 ntdll.dll C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll 0x762f0000 1048576 kernel32.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\kernel32.dll 0x763f0000 286720 KERNELBASE.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll 0x75c60000 1048576 USER32.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\USER32.dll 0x77230000 589824 GDI32.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\GDI32.dll 0x77d50000 40960 LPK.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\LPK.dll 0x75ef0000 643072 USP10.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\USP10.dll 0x75980000 704512 msvcrt.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\msvcrt.dll 0x75d60000 655360 ADVAPI32.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\ADVAPI32.dll 0x77960000 102400 sechost.dll 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Heya, I've installed SC4RH on my new laptop but it won't load. I get the the "bridge" flash screen then I get a black screen which flashes on and off before eventually closing completely. I did once get the EA sign but thats it. I've installed all the latest drivers and updates for both Windows and SC4RH, there are no add-ons or anything. oh, nearly forgot, I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Any ideas of anything else I could try??? I've looked online and found other people have had the same issues with Windows 7 however nobody seems to have found a solution. Any help greatly appreciated.