Problems playingSimCity 4 On Windows XP

[Inukotsu19]

The game has fully been installed on my computer and it starts to play but as soon as the EA symbol pops up, it suddenly lags and then disappears.

Any thoughts on what I should do?

 

[Griggs45]

It could be the video card drivers or the card itself. I was running SC4 on a Dell Dimension desktop with XP. I upgraded the video card, the fan and the RAM. I was then able to get the game to load, but then it would only run for 10 to 20 min before crashing. So if you do get it up and running it will crash on you. In order to fix that problem, you need to open the Windows Task Manager.

1. Open Windows Task Manager.
2. Click Processor
3. Find SimCity
4. Right Click
5. Select Affinity
6. Uncheck all but one of the Processors

You only want it to run on one Processor, doesn't matter which one. This has worked for me for a number of years now.
YOU DO have to do this every time you boot up the game.

I'm even running this on the same 32 bit machine with Win 7 and it rarely crashes.

So check your drives, your video card. Close out anything else that you don't need running on the computer.

Maybe even try to re-install it.

If you do get it running, you will have to do what I explained above.

 

[Inukotsu19]

It could be the video card drivers or the card itself. I was running SC4 on a Dell Dimension desktop with XP. I upgraded the video card, the fan and the RAM. I was then able to get the game to load, but then it would only run for 10 to 20 min before crashing. So if you do get it up and running it will crash on you. In order to fix that problem, you need to open the Windows Task Manager.

1. Open Windows Task Manager.
2. Click Processor
3. Find SimCity
4. Right Click
5. Select Affinity
6. Uncheck all but one of the Processors

You only want it to run on one Processor, doesn't matter which one. This has worked for me for a number of years now.
YOU DO have to do this every time you boot up the game.

I'm even running this on the same 32 bit machine with Win 7 and it rarely crashes.

So check your drives, your video card. Close out anything else that you don't need running on the computer.

Maybe even try to re-install it.

If you do get it running, you will have to do what I explained above.

I opened Task Manager and there is no Sim City exe. or if there is it disappears as soon as it does the EA symbol. I tried running it while I had Task Manager open and still nothing.

 

[Griggs45]

[/quotemsg]I opened Task Manager and there is no Sim City exe. or if there is it disappears as soon as it does the EA symbol. I tried running it while I had Task Manager open and still nothing.[/quotemsg]



Yeah it does sound like it is disappearing before you can get it to show in task manager. Honestly, check your drivers for your graphics card. If it is up to date, then I would re install Sim City 4. Something might of went wrong with the install.

If you are going to do that though. download CCleaner and use that to uninstall Sim City and also use it to clean your registry. You can download it from here,...http://

Then re install and see if it will start.

 

[Griggs45]

Any luck with getting Sim City 4 working? I'm a big fan and willing to help you get building a city.