sim city 4

my game is being completely ruined lately by lockups and crashes.

NAM is the only thing i have installed no plugins at all.

Im gettin hard lockups which require a reboot to fix as well as the game freezing needing an alt-tab to get around it.

Reading about im guessing its due to this multicore problem, ive tried alt tabbing out and setting the affinity to 1 but its causing me some major headaches.

All i can do at the moment is save frequently and try it in 30min sessions or so before i get a crash grrrrrrrr
 
I keep getting the picture of a car with a cross through it over all the residential areas...all i have built is a powerstation and and small residental square :s?
 
Andr3w said:
I keep getting the picture of a car with a cross through it over all the residential areas...all i have built is a powerstation and and small residental square :s?
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Ignore it, if you do have a road connection it means ''please'' zone other sizes of lots, eg not 1x1 or 1x2 or 1x3 but more 2x2 or 3x2 or 3x3 instead... You can manually do it while holding control when zoning.

However, it's not essential, wait for it to go away and buildings will grow & function as usual, it'll just take a bit longer...
Unless of course, you've really got no road connection properly, make sure there's always a road on the side of the zones where the arrow is pointing to... And make sure it's not isolated from the rest eg. from ''work''.
 
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sharpygsxr said:
my game is being completely ruined lately by lockups and crashes.

NAM is the only thing i have installed no plugins at all.

Im gettin hard lockups which require a reboot to fix as well as the game freezing needing an alt-tab to get around it.

Reading about im guessing its due to this multicore problem, ive tried alt tabbing out and setting the affinity to 1 but its causing me some major headaches.

All i can do at the moment is save frequently and try it in 30min sessions or so before i get a crash grrrrrrrr
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I have the same install as you, patched Deluxe, with just NAM added.

I was getting the same thing happen too, now I just run it in software mode. Not had a single crash (fingers crossed!) since. The games still looks ok, but it runs perfectly:D
 
BombayMix said:
Ooops Meant to type "low pollution"



Parks/plazas do help. They low the pollution in their surrounding area , thus making it more desirable to high wealth.
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They don't mind air pollution though see my pics, the places that have air pollution ( near the busy roads ) only have high desirability for CO$$$ and even higher for CS$$$ ( not pictured but I can make it if you want)...
 
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Anybody able to help me out?

I am looking to run this game in windowed mode on Vista 64. Tried altering Target box to include -window but I get an error how its not valid when I hit apply.

:(

Edit:ignore, must have been doing something wrong because its accepted it. Off to hide my shame and play some SC4.
 
I was just checking out some of your high res screenshots Snowdog and was wondering where you got those buildings from Ikea/ Tesco etc?

I've had a quick glance at: http://www.simtropolis.com/ and the only downloads I could really find where mods for the game. Do I need to register to the website so I can download buidlings?
 
yeah you do mate, and if you just type in the search box tesco etc you will find plenty of stuff.

Then try the top uploader stuff like simgoober etc.

One word of warning make sure you follow the readme and get all the dependencies that each lot requires. I found that process infuriating and gave up before i started.
 
I must say, reading through the thread, and am very tempted to get hold of Sim City 4.

What's the version to get, if I was to go shopping for it tomorrow - do I need to look for a Deluxe Edition, UK Edition, Super Gizmo Edition with Addon X, Y and Z.....?
 
I was quite happily playing SimCity 4 and the Rush Hour expansion a few weeks ago. Great game, well worth picking up :)
 
timbob said:
I must say, reading through the thread, and am very tempted to get hold of Sim City 4.

What's the version to get, if I was to go shopping for it tomorrow - do I need to look for a Deluxe Edition, UK Edition, Super Gizmo Edition with Addon X, Y and Z.....?
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If I would buy it now I would go for the Deluxe Edition.. not sure but I think thats what they sell in the stores now anyway.. in any case it will keep you occupied for many hours, if not days, weeks and months, all depending how much you like building your cities! :p

Cheers
Tom
 
gam3r said:
So has everyone given up on this game?

;)
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Managed to get it installed on my machine last week, but kept failing big time. However last saturday, I had a proper bash at it started slowly and managed to get a decent size city by the end of the weekend. Although I'm currently having a lot of water pollution problems and a major energy crisis in one of the larger cities I'm currently building.
 
I just heard of this game from the Zero Punc Spore review. Looks very interesting and I love this type of game (I think). Does it work on Windows Vista 64bit?
 
Works fine on Vista 64 here.

As Snowdog says you have to set the affinity of the CPU right enough otherwise you'll get random crashes.
 
sorry to bring up old old thread, but im in the Simcity Mood again. Anyone else still playing? :D

ermmmmm okkkkkkk its not working anymore. CTD every time i try to open new city/tile. :(
 
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