BEJA

Tried to stop multi CTD's and used a tip from another site...but when I was in to SimCity 4 Deluxe-my main game-None of my Regions were there only the default ones. So after many years of playing I lost most of my regions and it also looks like most of my plugins! BEJA

Thank-you!

OK....found my plugins and regions: they are in My Documents...however on startup, they do not seem to be included....just the original ones from the game itself. So wondering what I have done wrong: Should I use the original startup button...as I am using the SimCity 4 launcher. Sorry if I am being vague, however this issue hasn't come up before. However I am happy that I have found all of the plugins and regions!

Hi Everyone..... Just thought I would throw this out to everybody: What seems to be the best overall computer configuration to reach the ultimate performance level for SimCity? BEJA

...Thanks for the reminder ANM!!....I forgot that there is quite a demand on the CPU when running SimCity, and lately I have been running apps behind my gaming! That is most likely why I have seen some spikes in the CTD frequency! Next time I'm in the game, I'll not run anything in the background and see how that helps... Bruce

Thanks!!...I can do that, if I re-install, I'll just move my regions and plugins to D drive, and then back again. Another thought, due to the fact that I'm using several mods, do those need to be re-installed or just by being in my plugins folder, will they interface fine? Bruce

Thanks, 'A Nonny Moose'.....yes, everything for SimCity is at application controlled, as well as other tips that you have given over the years........Now, this may be a silly question: Would it help if I re-installed the game? Or would that be just a waste of time? Bruce

Hi all...so, I have added to the command line the CPU Count 1 line, and it work fairly well...I was able to do some reconstruction in a city and saved twice before the game crashed, which is an improvement! It crashed on the third save attempt.... Cheers:

Thanks for the response....I manually set the Affinity to the zero core, and nothing in my plugins would be causing anything as I have not downloaded anything recently. I'm thinking that it may be my graphics card, as I know the Nvidia protocols are touchy when it comes to Simcity....having said that, I'm not sure which driver works the best....I recently reverted to an older driver, but that was after the random crashes began. Bruce

Here is another exception report...this one when the game crashes on loading up, ( the first was during game play). Exception time: 07/19/2011, at 21:12:26. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 5504 (0x00001580). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.640.0 System version: Windows NT 6.1 System memory: 4096 Megabytes total, 4096 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x0080339c. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x003fc39c. Registers EAX: 0000be80 EBX: 00000018 ECX: 2b090c34 EDX: 29e00414 ESI: 2993f414 EDI: 29b59a60 CS:EIP: 0023:0080339c SS:ESP: 002b:0018f7b8 EBP:247692e4 DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b Flags: 00210206

.....I too are now experiencing too many crashes.....here is my latest exception report: Exception time: 07/19/2011, at 20:36:04. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 4980 (0x00001374). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.640.0 System version: Windows NT 6.1 System memory: 4096 Megabytes total, 3836 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x005ba45b. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x001b345b. Registers EAX: 00000000 EBX: 693e5218 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000016 ESI: 00000009 EDI: 806da7fd CS:EIP: 0023:005ba45b SS:ESP: 002b:0018f924 EBP:0018f994 DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b Flags: 00210206 Now my computer info: Windows 7 Professional...version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 Acer Aspire M5802/M3802 Intel core 2Quad CPU Q8400 (4cores) 8GB RAM Total Virtual Memory 16GB Page File Space 8GB Graphics Card Nividia GeForce GT220 Driver Version: 8.17.9745 The Issue: Lots of random crashes...at times during start-up and at other times during a save. Lately I have to attempt loading up the game three times before it holds, and then once inside the city and playing, it usually lasts only for one save and then crashes...also I do set the Affinity to the '0' core As always...thanks for any help; Bruce

Hi all: ....I just came across a story of the new CCTV Chinese TV building being built...from Fortune magazine. Sorry I do not have a picture, however it is a clever design, all glass with a sixty degree bend in the structure....it looks amazing! BEJA

Hi all: I'm posting this issue in a new thread, N_O_Body has gracefully responded, however under a different thread, which this issue should not have been....which was my fault. However a brief history: I was building a super retail centre in one of my cities, "Pacifica", and I had the game in pause mode. Upon finishing my creation, which has lots of Custom Lots...I saved it, and then took it out of pause...unfortunately Pacifica then crashed to the Desktop. Now, when I try to enter Pacifica, it will load, but within 5 seconds it will crash agian. I'm thinking I have a corrupt plugin or I have used too many Custom Lots. N_O_Body has helped immensely, however we cannot solve the issue. I may just redo the city, delete it and start over, but I thought I would post this under a proper thread and see if anyone else may have some ideas. BEJA (Bruce)

Yes, I'm thinking the same thing...a bad save, and I do have a back-up, only it is not as developed, however it will give me a chance to employ some re-designs! So all is good! Thanks ever so much for the help and discussion...and as always, through this process I've learned more about the game and the great people that are SimTropolis! Bruce

Thanks N_O_Body, yes I have several "money lots", but not employed in this particular city....I did not realise that one could overflow the budget counter. I have the Coastal Casino operating in another city in the Region...Easton Bay, so I'll keep a close eye on that one! Bruce

Hello again, everyone....I have been thinking, and yes I know that is a dangerous thing! However, I am not convinved that my problem with Pacifica is a plugin issue...due to the nature of that last save. Just to refresh, I saved the game while I was in pause mode, after completing my building. As soon as the game finished saving I took it out of pause, which behaved naturally, but then all of sudden my Budget figure went from 400,000 odd to nothing, not zeroes, but blank with the exception of a hyphen and then crashed...so possibly I corrupted the actual city in the process of the last save? Bruce

Just a note...I appreciate everyone's responses, here and on the first posting in the other thread. My Plugins folder is quite huge, about 3 to 4 Gigs....yes I know, most likely too big! I am using the NAM, and have it set at the Better Pathfinding...I'll reset that to Normal, however this does not occur in any other city in the Region. I clean and defrag at least once a week. I have set Virtual Memory back to 4096 and am running 2 GB of RAM Bruce

In the Region View, Pacifica is the upper right city, Northeast corner Pacifica, the actual city has the Super Retail Centre on the West side, centre BEJA

Thanks, and again sorry for posting this here...I have started a new threan entitled "City Crashes-Only One" Bruce

...Well, I changed my Virtual Memory to 4096. actually I had it set for 5096, which most likely was too much....and just a history, I have been following your advice religously in regards to Disk Management, with defragging and the whole lot. So today, after visiting several of my cities in the same region, I tried to enter Pacifica and the same thing happpened. So I have included, here, the whole Exception Report of today. Just a little something else, when I was in Pacifica and building the Retail Centre, this is what actually happened during that first crash: After building, my budget was around 490,000 dollars....so as mentioned previously, I saved the city, then once that was completed, I took Pacifica off pause...which it did, and then crashed...but I did notice that in the split second from taking off pause to the crash, my Budget figure went to blank...don't know if that means anything. The Report: Exception time: 12/03/2007, at 10:52:23. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 3536 (0x00000dd0). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.640.0 System version: Windows NT 5.1 System memory: 1984 Megabytes total, 708 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x006a5b2a. Sectionffset: 0x01:0x0029eb2a. Registers EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000098 ECX: 2a9100d4 EDX: 2a653094 ESI: 28a472ec EDI: 2872d414 CS:EIP: 001b:006a5b2a SS:ESP: 0023:0012f8c4 EBP:0000001c DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000 Flags: 00010246 Loaded Modules Address Size Module Path ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x00400000 8187904 SimCity 4.exe C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe 0x7c900000 720896 ntdll.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll 0x7c800000 1003520 kernel32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll 0x7e410000 589824 USER32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll 0x77f10000 290816 GDI32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll 0x77dd0000 634880 ADVAPI32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll 0x77e70000 593920 RPCRT4.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll 0x71ad0000 36864 WSOCK32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll 0x71ab0000 94208 WS2_32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll 0x77c10000 360448 msvcrt.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll 0x71aa0000 32768 WS2HELP.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll 0x42c10000 847872 WININET.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll 0x77f60000 483328 SHLWAPI.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll 0x00320000 36864 Normaliz.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\Normaliz.dll 0x42990000 282624 iertutil.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\iertutil.dll 0x7c9c0000 8482816 SHELL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll 0x73f10000 376832 DSOUND.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.dll 0x774e0000 1298432 ole32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll 0x76b40000 184320 WINMM.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll 0x77c00000 32768 VERSION.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll 0x5ed00000 835584 OPENGL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\OPENGL32.dll 0x68b20000 131072 GLU32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\GLU32.dll 0x73760000 299008 DDRAW.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\DDRAW.dll 0x7

Hi, and thanks for responding N_O_Body....here are the first 25 lines: Exception time: 11/29/2007, at 08:46:39. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 3712 (0x00000e80). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.640.0 System version: Windows NT 5.1 System memory: 1984 Megabytes total, 736 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x006a5b2a. Sectionffset: 0x01:0x0029eb2a. Registers EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000098 ECX: 3085af34 EDX: 1659ff54 ESI: 1d83b5a8 EDI: 1d125014 CS:EIP: 001b:006a5b2a SS:ESP: 0023:0012f8c4 EBP:0000001c DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000 Flags: 00010246 ...and I apoligise for posting this in this section, I should have realised that making a seperate subject would have been better! BEJA (Bruce)

N_O_Body...maybe you can help....In one of my Regions, I have just finished building a large retail shopping area, in a city called Pacifica, and did so while I had the game in pause mode. My last save was also in pause mode. Now, when I load the city, it appears very briefly and then crashes to my desktop. When it appears, naturally it is in pause mode, as that is the last time I saved. I am wondering if there is a way to avert the crash, get it out of pause and allow it to run. Every other city in the Region is fine, and they all work well...it is just Pacifica. Now, I realise that maybe I put too many custom lots in...so is there also a way for me to take some of those out prior to loading the city? BEJA

Ok!....so there I am playing in one of my cities, and all is going great until I noticed that my RLS Resort Hotel is missing its Tower portion of the hotel! Well, panic set in with this old mayor, and I went scrambling searching for missing dependancies and found none! After some research and searching, I went back in to the city and re-ploped the Hotel and lo and behold it was all there....phew! So I took a dinner break and then reloaded the city, and unfortunately the patrons of the Hotel are gone again, as the Tower portion is missing! Also, I noticed one of those pesky Plugin Packs notices....so I utilised SCTool and Cleanitol to determine what, if any, texture packs and prop packs are missing....I did find two that were missing, so I installed them and conducted another search and came up with no others missing. I began playing the game again, and the same situation occurred....Plugin Pack missing notice....and the Tower portion missing from the hotel. I bulldozed and reploped and all was back to normal. Kept playing for about two hours and packed it in for the night.....all was fine and properly saved the game....next morning same thing occurred! So as far as I know, I have all the plugins and such, and when you plop the Resort it is all there, only when you exit and come back are portions missing! This does not impair the playing of the game, just another mystery from the world of BEJA! Bruce

Hey Capt! Thanks for the understanding..... The possible conflict that you described regarding parks....I'll certainly keep an eye on that one, and thanks to you, I'll know what to do. BEJA