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Well, this did it! Thanks very much.

Well, I can't. My D: drive is broken. My other two DVD drives worked to install it, but the game won't load it from there. This what I mean by "other two DVD drives" in case you were wondering.

Alright, I've tried that now, but sadly, it didn't work. Thanks anyways.

I've been searching around for a good hour or two looking for fixes for this. It seems a pretty common problem but with a million different solutions, and I haven't found mine yet. I start it up, and nothing. It sits at that screen forever. Well, for at least an hour, but I closed it after that. I'm running SimCity 4 Deluxe (1.1.640.0) with the original 2 CD's that it came out with. This is the actual problem, I think. I have multiple CD/DVD drives on my computer, and I don't think the game knows which one I have the CD in. The first drive is D:, the second one is F:, and the third one is G:. My D: drive is broken, and I have CD1 in F: and CD2 in G:. I installed the game perfectly, but it won't run now. If I could get SimCity to know CD1 is in F:, it might very well work. The reason I think this is because I used a no-cd patch and it worked then, but I couldn't install the official patches or NAM with it. Oh, yeah, by the way, I also installed NAM, but it didn't work beforehand either. Here's my specs: OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Processor: AMD A6-3620 APU (4 CPUs) 2.3GHz Memory: 8192 RAM Graphics Chip: AMD Raedon HD 6530D (0x964A) Also, here's what I have on my SimCity 4 shortcut: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -CustomResolution:enabled -r1440x900x32 -f -intro:off -CPUPriority:high -CPUCount:1 -d:DirectX -ExceptionHandling:off