I've had SC4 for years and have never run into the problem I'm having today after installing the game once again and I have no clue what could be causing this problem. I've re-installed the game a 2nd time and tried it both before and after installing the most recent patch, but the problem is the same in either case.
When I save a city the music stops and the game locks up. Ctrl+alt+del doesn't do anything so the only option is to reboot my computer. I've been racking my brain all day what the problem could be but I have no clue. I tried increasing my virtual memory, something I've never had to do to get SC4 to run in the past, and as I guessed it had no effect. My computer has a gig of ram, and while its never run the game as smooth as I would prefer, it has always been able to run it with crashes mostly on the rare side. There have been a few times when the game would freeze while saving, but I found it usually is only when I save when exiting to the region. Saving while staying in the city almost always works, but for some reason it isn't this time.
Does anybody have any ideas what the issue could be? Like I said the hardware I'm using has run the game just fine in the past and I've never had to tweak any settings for the game to run, so it doesn't make much sense why it won't work now.
