Please Help: Crashing in SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

[gavin68]

I got SimCity 4 not too long ago, and love it. However, lately, it's been crashing a lot. It takes me from in-game, to a black screen, then to the desktop. All without any error messages. It's almost as if my computer is saying, "I don't feel like running SimCity 4. Too bad for you =P" And beating the hard drive isn't working (obviously).

Any solutions?

Specs:

*Windows Vista Home Premium

*Toshiba Satellite notebook PC

*Intel 945 Chipset Family

*Plenty of avalable RAM, and memory on my hard drive.

[Joel]

Yes, assign 1 processor only to the simcity4.exe process, and save often anyway. It happens to me all the time, and the fault is the dual-core.

[soldier1st]

that wont help Joel but i would suggest running the game in xp compatability mode,also do you have 32bit or 64bit?also do you have sp1 and all updates and latest drivers installed?

[lsquare]

  Joel said:

Yes, assign 1 processor only to the simcity4.exe process, and save often anyway. It happens to me all the time, and the fault is the dual-core.

Are you sure? I've never heard of a "dual core problem" before.

[obiwong]

i played Sim City 4 a lot a few months ago and never had any problems with an E8400 and Vista x64

[Joel]

  Sgt_Strider said:

Are you sure? I've never heard of a "dual core problem" before.

  Obi Wong said:

i played Sim City 4 a lot a few months ago and never had any problems with an E8400 and Vista x64

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I almost don't dare play any more.