SC4 freezing at random moments

[Ramona Brie]

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.

[M4346]

I think you might be exerting your system or even the game. Remember, it's not as young as it used to be.

[Ramona Brie]

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.

[Madeira aka Constantina]

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.

[fernby]

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??