Athywen

Thanks tungston! I Didn't know about the SKU folder. Turns out I needed sku_2 which is odd, but I downloaded it and it installed perfectly!! I'm playing as I write for 30 mins now with no crash which is making me hopeful again. Thankyou too SC4BOY for replying and trying Its always the simple things that are the most confusing Although at least I can say I didn't have an "ID 10 T" fault Why, when I brought an official copy from a game store, I would have a European copy when I'm in Australia... If I don't report back, everything is working fine

I'm Australian, but the website says to download the sku_1 patch same as North America. And yeah, it is the 2CD deluxe version.

File version: 1.1.613.0 Product version: 1.1.0.0 I brought this game from a store and have not applied any mods. It is a straight install from the cd. If it was a cracked version, I would accept problems like this as the norm, but its not, so I'm a little frustrated.

Hi all, I have two problems which may or may not be related. Crashing I have searched the forums and tried: changing compatability to XP, setting affinity to one CPU, stopping dwm.exe, all at the same time and separately, yet I still crash to the desktop after a black screen. It seems to happen the more complex my city gets as I have not had problems on the smallest of maps, but cannot develop the medium sized map past like 10k pop before crashing becomes too often to try to keep going. Patch I have downloaded the patch from the simcity website and also another website which was recommended here somewhere but I cannot remember the name. I have downloaded them more than twice from each location, yet each time I try to install them, a message pops up saying "Old file not found. However, a file of the same name was found. No update done since file contents do not match." There was a suggestion here that said to move the patch file into the different game folders and run it again there, but that did not work. I'm at my wits end here. I yearn to play simcity, but it has become too much effort. Can anyone help me? My hardware specifications: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 4 GB DDR2 RAM NVidia GeForce 8600GT 512 MB Vista SP2 32-bit