Problems with Sim City 4

[cactuslizard]

Well, to say the least, I am disappointed . My old Dell Dimension PC with a Pentium 3 and 256 MB of RAM plays Sim city 4 fine, if a little slow. My new computer ,that I built myself , with an Athlon 64 X2, 2 GB of RAM and a GeForce 7 video card does not load Sim City .  I have tried to install it at least 5 times. The installation isn't the problem- IT JUST WON"T LAUNCH!!!! I put the disc in and the box pops up with options, so naturally I choose play. Then nothing. The box goes away after I push play, and nothing else happens . I have tried to install it to a different directory with the same results. I don't have the correct drivers for my DVD drives, but I don't think that's the problem since all my other games play fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!! 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

What Operating System are the two computers?

Is this a genuine version of the game?

[BC_Programmer]

try starting it from the start menu instead of the Autorun popup.

[cactuslizard]

For Carbon Dudeoxide-
My Dell has Windows ME and my new computer has XP Pro SP2.

For BC_Programmer-
Same thing if I try to play from the start menu.

Also, I need drivers for a Lite-On DVD C LH52C1P and a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109

[cactuslizard]

Well, I gave my old computer to my sister, but she's nice enough to let me play sim city on it.  So for now I will play it on her computer and see if I can't figure out the problem.

[BC_Programmer]

Optical drives don't need drivers.

Does SC4 have any "patches"? I this just SC4 or the "deluxe" edition?

[cactuslizard]

I thought they didn't need drivers, but I wasn't sure.
It's just Sim City 4, not Deluxe and no expansion pack. I haven't tried to download the patch (kinda' slow since I have dial up) but I will try to download them.

[sjohnson2]

I had a similar problem running SIMCITY4. I think it is a common bug. A few things to try:

1) Get latest drivers for MB,Soundcard and Video Card
2) Patch the game
3) check the web for fixes to this issue...sorry, can't remember where i went to for this

Hope that helps...one of my fav games ever that I still play!

[cactuslizard]

Yesssssssssss! I got it thanks to the patch! One small problem remains- game will shut down about every 20 minutes or so without warning and for no apparent reason. But other than that the game is very smooth with fast zoom in/zoom out and no lag.

[morton007]

I had a similar problem running SIMCITY4. I think it is a common bug. A few things to try:

1) Get latest drivers for MB,Soundcard and Video Card
2) Patch the game
3) check the web for fixes to this issue...sorry, can't remember where i went to for this

Hope that helps...one of my fav games ever that I still play!

why is this man a starter he should be a lot of a better rank to know all this

[clleady]

It may be some problem of ATI Video.They are not compatible

[BC_Programmer]

why is this man a starter he should be a lot of a better rank to know all this

Because he has 4 posts.

I'm going to repeat what forum member Homer had to say to me,back in the day:

please STOP posting in old threads!