Elvenly1

Sooooo I'm a dolt and didn't even realize that dgVoodooCpl packaged with the SC4 version of DgVoodoo2 (which I had been using) was an application I could launch to fine-tune things Using the GeForce 9800GT (I actually had one back in the day!) option under the DirectX tab in the DgVoodoo control panel seems to have fixed the problem, pending further and more extensive play/testing. If the crashes persist, then I'll be back! Thanks for your help!

Hello all! I'm running into a specific crash on the Steam version of SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition. This was a new install after not having played SC4 in many years, and it was running NAM and CAM. To isolate the source of the crash and rule out plugin weirdness, I completely wiped my SC4 install and started from scratch with minimum plugins. The crash persists. The specific crash? On occasion when starting to scroll the map in city view, the game freezes entirely. This freeze seems to happen in response to starting a new scrolling event instead of when I'm continuously scrolling. Sometimes it happens shortly after starting play in city mode. Other times it takes a while, but usually the crash occurs within 15 minutes of starting in city mode. During the freeze the game can still accept input and gameplay sound/music continues to play, and the cursor's appearance will actually update based on where it is or what action is being taken, but usually additional input causes the game to crash to the desktop. When going to the corresponding event logs in Windows' event viewer, the crashes all seem to result from a graphics driver issue of some kind: For what it's worth, SC4 is the only game I'm experiencing crashes with. I'd love to find some way to fix this! Additional information regarding my system and plugins is below: Desktop PC Specs: OS Version: Windows 11 Home version 24H2 Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core 4.50 Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 5200 Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 w/ 12GB RAM Video Card Driver Version: 572.83 (the most recent available) Hard Drive: SC4 is installed on a 1TB SSD (drive D); the system drive C is an identical 1TB SSD Virtual Memory: 33.7GB total, 23.3GB available Page File Space: 2GB SC4 Plugins: 4GB Patch has been applied SC4Fix SC4DisableFPSLimit DgVoodoo2 I'm also using the following launch options in Steam. I wasn't using these on my first SC4 install. I know it would be better to use the appropriate DLL plugins, but this crash existed before I completely wiped out my SC4 install and all its plugins and started fresh to try and determine if it was a plugin issue: -intro:off -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -d:directx -CPUCount:1 -CPUPriority:high -w Omitting -d:directx has no effect; crashes still occur Thank you so much for reading all that! Really hoping that there's something floating out there that I'm missing in terms of a solution.