shafergaston

I would like to report the darndest thing. I was going through the options presented, and on a lark, I decided to alt-tab out of the game, and then alt-tab back in, before doing anything. When I did that, I was able to load a city. I modified it and was able to save it and exit to region. I then quit the game. I loaded the game from Steam, again, using a -f option - now it works. It is now working with and without alt-tabbing out at the start. This kind of leads me to believe its a problem with Steam but I honestly do not know enough about how Steam verifies I 'own' a copy to make sense of it. To answer other questions - this is a vanilla install (no plugins other than SC4Fix.dll) and there is no separate GPU (its the integrated GPU of the machine, Intel HD Graphics 630). I am running on a PC. I checked the config file and it appears to be reading my OS and Hardware specifications correctly. Thank you to everyone. I am now going to attempt to install some mods to optimize my playing experience and if you do NOT hear back from me it means everything worked; if I have continuing problems I will perform another search on troubleshooting tips for mods to see if that fixes whatever problems I experience and iff I can't find the solution I will start a new thread.

I have tried both with and without d:software. I think I used -w with Steam and with SC4Launcher but not the .bat file. My PC is operating on some other work right now but I will try -w and -f with all 3 and see if that changes anything when I try again.

sob story: after more than 10 years away from all things Sim I am having some nostalgia and so decided to get back into SimCity 4 (and other gaming). I bought a used laptop at the start of the pandemic and have a Steam-bought copy of SimCity 4 that I probably purchased on my account for my son half a decade ago. It does not work. I have reviewed the CTD pinned post and Windows 10 pinned posts. Steps Taken: Initially, I could not get past the EA Intro Screen without CTD. I turned off intro video in each case - this got me to the initial region. Initially, the game would crash in under 6 seconds in the region mode, regardless of whether I clicked anything or not. I turned off audio in each case - this got me to the ability to click on a city tile. Now, clicking on a city tile (whether one of the tutorials or a new city), it will begin to load. It will get to the second iteration of the 'cutesy text' that it says while loading (like 'SettingAdvisor Moods' or 'Debunching Unionized Commercial Services') and then freeze and then crash to desktop. I have attempted this both with and without the SC4Fix.dll in the Steam SimCity Plugins folder and the User Documents SimCity Plugins folder. There are no other plugins. I have attempted starting up from Steam with the recommended Launch Options; I have attempted starting up from the .exe itself Run as Admin, I have attempted the solution of writing my own .bat file to launch from desktop, and I have used the SC4Launcher solution with the appropriate settings and in each case I get the same crash. Launch options used include setting CPU to 1, audio off, with and without CustomResolution, with and without setting d:software I am using an i5-7400 CPU, 64-bit, using Windows 10 v1903. As far as I know I have the latest steam version. Any help is greatly appreciated. There may be a fix buried in the forums that I could not find, and I apologize if it was somewhere obvious that someone could point me to.