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I played a lot of SimAnt, SimSafari, SimTower, SimCopter, and Streets of SimCity a while back. I also played the old Theme Park as a kid (before Bullfrog was bought out by EA), which was the basis for SimThemePark. Watching those sprites fall off the roller coaster and survive without injury was always fun to watch. I still play SimAnt and SimTower on occasion, but I can't play SimCopter or Streets of SimCity due to computer problems (although there is a odd tool that can stabilize some of their erratic problems on newer computers). I also play ThemePark sometimes, but I have to choose between it and RCT3. I don't feel like playing SimSafari that much anymore.

Here's something simple I came up with a few years ago in Home Ec: Chocolate Chip White Cake Ingredients: 1 box moist white cake and all ingredients it requests 1 cup chocolate chips 1/2 tsp almond extract (optional) 1. Prepare batter as usual with mix, but add the almond extract if you want it. 2. Put white cake batter in a greased glass 13X7 pan (or something like that) and add chocolate chips 3. Stir so chocolate chips aren't all bunched together 4. Bake according to cake mix directions 5. Let cool and enjoy! It should be moist and sweet enough you don't need frosting. Feel free to add it if you insist. Feel free to experiment with other kinds of cake mixes and pans (cupcakes, maybe?), then see what comes out!

LG Chocolate V2 (VX8550). Works well, easy to hack your own ringtones onto, but mine is wearing out. Hoping to replace it with a Windows Mobile powered phone (or at least an EnV or Rival, something to text on)...

I ran into a similar problem... Look in your SC4 folder in your documents, and see if there's an exception report (the latest one) and see what's causing it to crash. It will try to tell you what's wrong. If nothing's in there, something could be wrong with your CD drive. By the way, if it says ACCESS_VIOLATION in a report somewhere, make sure you're a member of the users group (funny how you have to be a user to play even if you're an admin). Go to Control Panel>System and Maintenance>Administrative Tools>Computer Management. Once there, go to Local Users and Groups>Users>(you). Click on the Groups tab, and you can see what groups you are in. If users isn't there, click "add" and type in "Users" without quotes, and click OK, then click OK in the user window. Now you can close everything and hopefully you can play again.

Not sure if you already tried these, but: 1. Start a new region (I was once in a situation where a chunk in the middle of a city vanished and couldn't be terraformed or built on, maybe it's related) 2. Make a new SC4 folder (get a fresh start on everything) 3. Check that you have privileges to your SC4 folder and the game itself (sounds stupid, but I had issues running SC4 because of group and privilege issues on my computer running Vista Business 32bit) 4. Reinstall the game. Sometimes corrupt or unofficial things in the game itself can cause issues (I had a similar issue at one time with The Sims 2, which uses SC4 files for neighborhood terrain and lots)

This is just my case and is quite rare, but maybe your video card is overheating. (My Radeon X1650 Pro used to do that to me a lot until I rebuilt my computer so it could run upside-down, long story.) dietercl's post might help out; but if it doesn't, try this: CAUTION: You might get burned if you're not careful 1. Open your computer case (if you can run it with it open) 2. Play some SC4 or some other game until it crashes 3. Turn the computer off (you're pretty much forced to by the crash) 4. Feel the video card's heat sink/fan or near the chip. If it's cool, you probably have a software issue. If it's very hot, overheating is the problem. Try moving things around to give your video card more breathing room and/or invest in some case fans. If it's an integrated graphics card, you probably should get a real graphics card. Hope this helps.

DX10 is officially Vista-only (and included with it)... The latest for XP (and 2K sans some updates) is 9.0C I believe. I read on Wikipedia there are unofficial (and possibly harmful, but I wouldn't know) ways of forcing it to work on XP...