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Sounds like you're having the same problem that I had on my laptop. That was an Alienware Area 51m, with a Radeon 9600Mobility. No matter what I did, nothing got sim city to work on it, EA technical help were no use and Alienware and Radeon said they didnt have a clue. Ended up finding out that SC4 didn't support that card. Hope you have better luck though - I just held off playing SC4 'til I got my new desktop a month ago. Good Luck

Righty - well no crashing now so far as I can tell... Oh you just KNOW there's gonna be something else now ...now it would seem taht reward buildings are no longer working - eg I have one city now on 5.5K pop, but still no Large elementary scl, and the same town still hasnt been offered mayors house, despite Mrating of 30something... any ideas? EDIT: Ignore problem - game works fine including rewards on comp and game restart - now all I have to do is wait till the NAM's back up. YAY

Thanks for the replies guys - however the patch issue seems to just have been (2) bad downloads. Just downloaded it again and it patched successfully. Now to see whether the issue is fixed... @ locolobo - I also had an ATi issue with sim city 4 on my laptop (128MB mobility 9600) which caused a similar problem. It was oneof the resasons I chose an NVidia for my new comp... ah well.

I've tried both from the site, and have downloaded twice, and on neither download has it got past 1%. From the site it simply sticks at "your download has been prepared and is now installing. Please wait"

Definitely not either - Comp runs absolutely fine on any other application I care to try, including video editiing, DVD playback, HL2, etc - all of which would show a problem as well if it was a bad RAM stick. Plus the comp is brand spanking new, so there bloody well shouldnt be a problem with the RAM lol. As I said tho I think installing the patch would help, but it simply wont let em - this is the SKU2 update from Deluxe to 1.168(? -whatever the latest is) and it only gets to 1% completion before I get an application failure notification.... Any help on the patching issue would be most helpful atm i think.

OK this crash now seems to be getting more and more random - when I first experienced it, it was only while zoning in a single city. I thought that it might just be that city -then it happened somewhere else. Thought It might be that region - then it happened in a new region. Thought it was just while zoning.. now it seems to occur at any time. WHY WONT IT LET ME PLAY SIM CITY On a side note, the patch still won't install either, which I now think would at least solve some of my problems. Please help with either issue, or I may have to go on a rampant disaster spree... think of all those poor simizens...

Thanks for replying guys :-) @ Moose - Thanks for all your help over at EA forums as well, and you certainly had a good bash at it, so thanks again. @ Tolomar - Thanks for the suggestion of Greyvails tutorial -one question though.. where can I find it? I also wont have a chance to do much over the next few days as it's the end of my uni semester, and then I'll be away from my comp 4 a month at home (can only take my laptop with me, plus if I have SC with m I'll NEVER do any revision...) As for the crash it happened in my city that was around 220K population, but was doing an up and down cycle between 200 and 240K At least that's what I thought... I've now found that since the reinstall I'ts happening on every city that I've tried so far, although they have all been in the same region. Don't know if it'll happen in a new city or region yet, will attempt to test that soon. So the crash can now be said to occur at any population, and it happens as soon as I try to place/zone anything (roads, rails, RCI zones, Landmarks, Civic... anything) but if i'm just viewing scrolling or zooming it's fine. Any more help anyone?

Hi guys -I'm new here, although i've been lurking for a while, and have been around over at the EA forums. However I have a problem that I think you lot would be able to help with. I've already been discussing things with moose, and while he has been more than helpful I thought 2 heads are better than one etc. To summarise the problems I'm having: 1. In my large city, I am suffering a predictable and precise CTD. It occurs in my city of population ~ 220,000 , and does NOT occur in any of my smaller cities. IT does not occur when scrolling or zooming, or looking at graphs or data views. However, as soon as I attempt to zone some new land, the game will CTD. 2. Moose suggested that it may be something to do with the fact that I am running an unpatched version of Deluxe - This first caused a problem as the .exe file that I was using was a cracked no-cd one, not the original. As a result, the patch would not install... ...or so I thought - having uninstalled, restarted, defragged and reinstalled, the patch still crashes during installation, at 13%top bar, 1% overall completion. This is odd... 3. Moreover , the same crash will still occur on that particular city, whether I am running from the CD itself or from the crack. I had not changed any settings prior to the original instance of teh crack either. My game is a clean install, and I am not using ANY mods, custom lots, Plugins etc. My computer is brand new, with the following specs: Nvidia Nforce 4 ASUS A8N-E MOBO AMD 3800 x64 'Venice' Processor Gigabyte Tech NVidia Geforce 7800GT 256MB 2GB Corsair RAM on a single DDR2 stick 160GB Maxtor 7500RPM HDD 8 Channel Onboard sound 600W PSU It was professionally built, not a custom home made jobby, and the core temp of either the GPU PSU MOBO or CPU has never exceeded 49deg C. As I said, I have already had some discussion with Moose on this matter over at the EA forums, at http://simcity.ea.com/bbs/messages.php?threadID=7d2337b1f93f02512f1afd710ef780af&directoryID=263&startRow=1&openItemID=item.263 Please ask for any more information and I will try to answer as best I can. Thanks in advance, Rory