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Thanks for the info and guidance! Upon further investigation, the system experienced an error 0xc... system crash. After a few disk clean ups and attempting to do a system restore, the system repaired itself. It seems with this Dell there is a recovery/assist application that was triggered to repair the errors before a system restoration could be started. As of now, the errors had been repaired...THANKS!

Greetings! Sometimes strange things happen without any interference from me. Just this morning, without playing SimCity 4 my computer crashed and restarted. Once it rebooted, everything was back to normal...so I thought. Later that day I opened SimCity 4 and immediately I received the message "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." Not knowing how to proceed, I uninstalled the program, then reinstalled the program and the same message appeared. At the top of the message box it shows "Error: CreateDirectory(C:\Users\CHRIST~1\AppData\Local\Temp..." Currently I am using a Dell XPS8500 with iCore i7-3770 CPU at 3.40 GHz and Windows 8.1 Thoughts on how to proceed or are my SimCity 4 days over? THANKS!!!!

Interesting...how does one know if certain plugins don't work together?

Thanks for all of the info, guidance, and help...will give this a try.

Hello- THANKS FOR THE HELPFUL INFORMATION: Here are the sources/sites from simtropolis that I used to download seaports. I also installed two seaports into my Sim City 4 game. ?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent> The information you shared below is foreign to me, in terms of what it means and how to implement it...I am not familiar with going into the command line area... You should use the command line options to control your game rather than going to the task list. This is done by adding options after the last quote of the complete pathname of your game in the shortcut target. I suggest always using the -cpucount:1 option along with -intro:off. The first specifies only one core can process this program and the second turns off the never to sufficiently cursed movie at the start of the game. Options are always preceded by a single space character and always start with a hyphen. If you have a 16;9 or other HD monitor you need the -customresolution:enabled and the -rhhhhxvvvvxbb option where: hhhh is the horizontal pitch of your screen in pixels vvvv is the vertical pitch bb is the colour depth, either 16 or 32 bits example -r1920x1080x32

:???:Greetings- After reviewing the fine articles and useful information I am certain that my Sim City 4 crashes to desktop due to the additional Seaports lots downloaded to my plugins file. Of course, before I realize the issue I placed two of the upgradeable seaports side by side, which causes the Sim City 4 to crash. Utilizing and downloading the upgradeable seaports (again) and the Swamper 77 file did not solve the problem. To date, I have tried, deleting all of the downloaded upgradeable seaport files, downloaded the Swamper 77 files, and even tried changing the Affinity option to CPU 0, all to no avail. Is there any hope of salvaging this city in its current form, or is it the unthinkable and I must start again? Currently I am using Windows 8.1 on a Dell XPS 8500 with an Intel i7-3770. THANKS!