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SimCity 4 General Discussion and Tutorials => SimCity 4 General Discussion => General Custom Content Discussion => Topic started by: Ramona Brie on September 16, 2007, 10:48:19 AM

Title: SC4 freezing at random moments
Post by: Ramona Brie on September 16, 2007, 10:48:19 AM
I've been "flipping" a city tile (destroying the old city layout, then laying down a new one). I have experienced crashes. I had a really large Demolish tool area that was 160,000 simoleons to get rid of. I dragged it all out, then it froze. A second time, I was working with the city while it had odd police and garbage issues. It froze then, too.

Is this a city tile issue, a custom content issue, or a CPU issue? Notably, SC4's memory use dropped after the second one from a peak of 700000K to 70000K (one-tenth of the memory it was using).

I may just do another city tile that is blank.
Title: Re: SC4 freezing at random moments
Post by: M4346 on September 16, 2007, 10:55:38 AM
I think you might be exerting your system or even the game. Remember, it's not as young as it used to be. ;)
Title: Re: SC4 freezing at random moments
Post by: Ramona Brie on September 16, 2007, 10:57:58 AM
Quote from: M4346 on September 16, 2007, 10:55:38 AM
I think you might be exerting your system or even the game. Remember, it's not as young as it used to be. ;)
Huh? Exerting my system? It's an XP from 2003. 1GB of memory, but it used to be 512 up until about February of this year.
Title: Re: SC4 freezing at random moments
Post by: Madeira aka Constantina on September 16, 2007, 12:17:33 PM
i also have 1 gig of memory and experience a similar situation, so it is best to demolish an area at a time. yes, it is possible to demolish more than one building at one time, but the demolition effects for demolisihng a whol city with the bulldoze tool drains the memories.
Title: Re: SC4 freezing at random moments
Post by: fernby on October 12, 2007, 06:43:00 AM
interesting... i had mu machine freeze up last night as well..

i was just laying down some commercial zones and it stopped mid-mouse movement.... and then stayed there. i went away, grabbed a drink (thinking it was lag or something) but when i returned it hadn't moved.

I tried to exit the game after saving, but i couldn't even return to windows so had to hit the power off button.

I know this isn't the same as demolishing a bunch of buildings, but could this be linked??