Okay guys, I've come to a little problem over here..
So first, I use Sim city 4 via steam, all the updates are up to date and I have these " -CustomResolution:enabled -r1280x720x32 -w -intro:off -CPUCount:1 " as launch options. If needed here's my main specs: Intel Pentium E5300, Nvidia GeForce 9500Gt, 4gig ram, Win 7. I checked, all the drivers are up to date, and I can run any of my other steam games fine.
Now, just a little background so yo won't be lost:
I have my game pinned on my taskbar, so I don't have to open the Steam library each time. Worked fine since many months. Yesterday I wanted to put the shortcut on the desktop, to clear the task bar as I was in the process of making a custom icon set, and SC4 logo wasn't going well with all the other black-silver ones.
So I went to the game sub(folder in the steam folder, found the .exe in the App sub-folder and proceed to make the shortuct, put it on the desktop, and launched the game via that last one to see of it worked.
Suddenly some error boxes appeared, If I recall it was something in the line "Error.... Graphical engine....could not load..... " . As I was used to the boxes that tell me " launch the game or read the manual? " and " launching game " I did not paid much attention at all... ( plus it was late and I was sleepy )
But... And here it gets weird.. Instead of the usual SC4 black window ( you know, the Gd... something that pops up while the game loads your ton of plugins) Nothing! Nothing appeared! Checked steam and it says I'm in game... Uhm.. waited to see, it was maybe a kind of glitch.. ( checked the task manager, Simcity4.exe running )
After some time, I was able to see the SC4 region window. Okay everything_went_better_than_excepted.jpg But, and here comes the drama, once I try to open any city tile ( Either a developed one or blank one, on both my current region ( Hiroshima - and a freshly created one) the game loads it and CTD (crash to desktop as you may know well) just before the game finish to load.
At first I though it could be a lately installed mod that came and did the mess - I installed RVT tunnel mod - But, even after un-installing it the game still crashes at the same point.
I checked in my brain and I don't remember installing any other mods..
I'm sure it went crazy like that since the error boxes.. And now I can't stop blaming myself for that stupid mistake..
I'm in despair guys, so I ask any of you who can even give a small advice, idea everything_is_okay..
In case, here are my game's graphical options:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fuppix.net%2F9%2Ff%2Fe%2F3d071a2610f37d1491674145628c5.jpg&hash=dbbde6e6301d37d377417d274b287d9b7e59f821)
Can you load a fresh city without any plugins?
Have you tried switching to hardware rendering?
Worked fine. So it was really a bad plugin and Software rendering.. Well, I'll have to dig to it...
Quote from: vortext on May 03, 2012, 09:32:12 AM
Have you tried switching to hardware rendering?
Just seen this, I'm trying this now with all the plugins, if it crashes, with no plugins and i'll see.
Quote from: vortext on May 03, 2012, 09:32:12 AM
Have you tried switching to hardware rendering?
Oh, working with all the plugins... Didn't know just one option could do such a mess..
Thanks anyway guys, and sorry for being clueless on this one, ahah.
Glad it's fixed :thumbsup:
It's probably my terrain mod causing the problems, you must use hardware mode for it to work.
Quote from: Lowkee33 on May 03, 2012, 11:16:12 AM
It's probably my terrain mod causing the problems, you must use hardware mode for it to work.
Make sense as I'm using it. Thanks for the tip, didn't know that, I'll be careful next time. Thanks again both of you!