sim city 4

Argh, was in the middle of playing and the game just closed :/ How annoying! Can't remember where my last save was but it was a fair way back.

Bleh.
 
Gackt said:
Argh, was in the middle of playing and the game just closed :/ How annoying! Can't remember where my last save was but it was a fair way back.

Bleh.
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That happened to me very often, but it's fixed by saving it every 30 mins, not a single crash then :confused:. I think it's some kind of memory leak problem as i see the graphics of the grass&others change when I save the game. Need to reinstall this too though I still have my plugin folder backed up so I'll start playing with 3gb of plug ins immediately :D.
 
MMD said:
How can you play for more than half an hour on a single tile anyway?!

hello.. region play?!
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Erm, not everyone plants down grids of boring housing, we go into detailing.
A large single tile usually provides about 20-30 hours of play for me, or well it used to.
 
That's what I meant. You can't detail a single tile until you let other regions develop first. You don't for example plan every tile out to the last dot then go and do the second and 'hope' they work well together.
 
I kept getting random crashes to desktop with no warning or error message. Which was certainly starting to pee me off as i keep forgetting to save!

But after a little research im pretty sure ive narrowed it down having dual cores. So when you start the game, ctrl alt del, goto processes, select simcity4 and set affinity to olny one core. Thus far it hasnt crashed after 5ish hours. Note you have to set he affinity everytime you start the game.
 
Bit of an update on performance :-

The "runfirst" tip from page 6 didn't help. This is an application to force it to start and run on a single core.

So I tried changing render mode to software from hardware and it actually seems fine now. So as someone pointed out above its a problem with ATI cards :eek:
 
MMD said:
That's what I meant. You can't detail a single tile until you let other regions develop first. You don't for example plan every tile out to the last dot then go and do the second and 'hope' they work well together.
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Not true, you can easily fully develop one full tile without having any neighbors, just have to make a city that has everything, industry, commerce and residential.

Concorde Rules said:
Anyone running it on this kind of spec:

2.4Ghz C2D, 8600GTM 256Mb, 1440x900?

Im wondering if my MBP can run it... im thinking of ditching my PC!
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Will be fine, it will run on a geforce 4 card I reckon...
2gb of ram is a nice boost though.

RichIbizaSport said:
I kept getting random crashes to desktop with no warning or error message. Which was certainly starting to pee me off as i keep forgetting to save!

But after a little research im pretty sure ive narrowed it down having dual cores. So when you start the game, ctrl alt del, goto processes, select simcity4 and set affinity to olny one core. Thus far it hasnt crashed after 5ish hours. Note you have to set he affinity everytime you start the game.
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Game kept crashing even running one 1 core for me :(.
 
So am I assuming - for a multi-tile city, you'd do an entire tile having industry, one with commerce and one with housing - and one with residential (for example) and just link them up together?
 
Gackt said:
So am I assuming - for a multi-tile city, you'd do an entire tile having industry, one with commerce and one with housing - and one with residential (for example) and just link them up together?
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Yes, but there's no reason imo to separate commerce and residential, industry and housei9ng should be separated though.
 
gnetx said:
Posty, you don't fancy uploading your massive city to somewhere so we can all take a closer look, do you? ;)
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ooooooh please! that would be great. then i can go about "messing it up" after becoming a new major of the city and coming up with new ideas on transport and development... which is what i wana do.

File size will be massive however, so if you need hosting PM me.
 
snowdog said:
Yes, but there's no reason imo to separate commerce and residential, industry and housing should be separated though.
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Dirty industry needs to separated from anything, clean (ie high tech) industry fine next to houses/commerce.

You can create a city of just dirty industry. Problem is the sims love to commute cross city which can leave to places being abandon due to long commute time.
 
when doin a multi tile city seperating industry houseing and offices, do you put hi tech industry on a different tile or in the same as the housing?
 
utajoker said:
when doin a multi tile city seperating industry houseing and offices, do you put hi tech industry on a different tile or in the same as the housing?
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I've heard high tech is more attracted to residental areas so keep it in the same tile. You also get the benefit of sims not having to travel far to work :)
 
sniffy said:
I've heard high tech is more attracted to residental areas so keep it in the same tile. You also get the benefit of sims not having to travel far to work :)
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thats what ive done so far but ive never played a multi tile city so was unsure, i normaly pick a large square and have everything in that tile.
 
utajoker said:
thats what ive done so far but ive never played a multi tile city so was unsure, i normaly pick a large square and have everything in that tile.
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Doesn't make much difference. I tend to build for looks/realism so kept them separate and created industrial business parks, either within the same city or adjoining.

Putting all the big polluters, ie dirty industry, coal power stations and garbage on a different city always the best thing to do.
 
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