Rabbit4080

What do we exactly loose if we don't run the update?

I have the same thing happening. I have a Q6600, 6 gig ram, GeForce 8800 512 I've done searches over and over and over agian and i still don't have anything. The only thing i found is that the access violation that always comes up in the crash log has something to do with RAM. Some suggested things were: 1. Defective RAM 2. Not enough RAM 3. Bad code I replaced my RAM to just to be sure,.. still crashed,.. increased my RAM, still crashed. I've even tried to take the graphics down. And it still crashes. But I am going to try to take the graphics down even more and see what happens. Also, I've never seen it crash doing the same thing, in the same size of city or anything. Once it crashed when i was scrolling across my city. Once it crashed when i clicked on the question mark. I used to be able to play this game without crashing on my old computer. So I don't know if all the new components has anything to do with it. But at the same time, I don't think i had the official patch installed. So that might be something to try in the future too, reinstall without the patch. All i know, is I love this game,.. but I'm getting very tired of building up a city for like an hour,... then loosing it all!!!!!!