fails to save properly (randomly does this)

[justinrpg]

when i save a city it takes a long time then the sandtimer cursor turns into the main arrow and doesn't exit (game or region) it just stays like a arrow and i cannot do anything if i click the sound make (the sound that means cannot click on that) occurs hence making me press ctrl alt del have to close because it is stuck like that... the status in task manager says running... so it is not a responsive problem is must be something else... I have lost so many cities because of this

[editfish]

How long has it been acting this way?  At what point did you notice it hanging?

This may be causing your missing city tile in your other thread.

[Indisguise]

If your having troubles saving a city, this is ussually a sign of too many plugins above the the specs that your conputer can handle. During saving the game tries to run through the city transfering everything in it to the save file and runs out of resources to be able to do this, that or you been playing with an edit program ( eg ireader) and accidently edited something your not suppose to.

if the former  what is your current specs vs plugins count, if it is the later your most likely looking at a full wipe of the game and a re-install.

[justinrpg]

my specs are pretty good 4GB RAM, 386MB VIDEO, Windows 7 Ultimate, 2.0GHZ Dual-Core Processor

don't really know how many plug-ins I have, but the plug-ins folder is 351MB when right clicked - Properties

[SC4BOY]

Unfortunately SC4 was written prior to even thinking seriously about multi-processors on home pc's .. it was written strictly single threaded with schedulers in the code (not handled by the hardware).. consequently it can be very sensitive to issues happening in the background.. in my experience switching windows during saves, or having web pages open which are running flash or java "busywork" such as youtube stuff or other such things. Based on your  post in the other thread about pc "shut downs" it is very likely you have some intermittant hardware problem. SC4 is extremely stressful on memory (even games like counterstrike don't stress system memory like SC4 does).