Help ! SIMCITY 4 problem with nVidia ?

[Bharat]

Hello people

I got the game a week ago and got all excited and started to install it on my PC (WinXP Pro, ASUS P4S533 with 1.6 @ 2.3 - MSI GFTi4200) and it just would not install initially ! The install process would just start and die, and I had to end the task everytime.

So I suspected my copy was faulty, so went out and borrowed a friend's copy, and same problem. So no point in going back to the store to exchange it.

On this friend's PC (also WinXP with a nVidida based GF Ti 4x00 card), it installs, but the moment he tries to run the game, he gets the BSOD and a reboot !

I tried running it on my other PC (ASUS P3V4X @ 1GHz - ATI Radeon 9000 Pro) and installed fine, working great !

Now, I looked around and it seems there IS some problem with nVidia based machines - there are a few other people facing similar problems and asking the same question/s - is there really a problem ? I looked at the game's website and there's no mention there.

So why is it not working on nVidia based machines ? Any clues/suggestions people ?

 

[Chaotic42]

I dunno. I have a Gainward GF4 Ti4400 and I have no problems at all, running Windows XP.

 

[Confused]

Had it installed and running on my PC, with an MSI 128mb GF4Ti4200, no probs



Confused

 

[Mem]

Did you make sure nothing was overclocked before installing it?

 

[ScrewFace]

Thanks for the warning. I was gonna buy it but not now.

 

[Bharat]

Yeah, I agree that is does not make any sense ! The only thing overclocked is the 1.6A, running at 2.3GHz.

I even tried downloading and installing the latest drivers, but no joy

The strange thing is that it works perfectly on my other PC, but since that is mainly set up for the wife, it becomes a bit tricky, if you know what I mean

 

[mrbass]

That's pretty funny. Most overclockers never do any intense CPU apps, etc. just run benchmarks for bragging rights. Many who encode CCE for the first time say their system crashed. 10 times out of 10 the culprit is oc'ing their cpu.

 

[Wolfsraider]

i had a similar issue with ea and they sent t to me(i took the game back before i tried it though since it took too long for them to respond with other than faq answers) that was the sims online though but it may help .

get ahold of ea or maxis and ask for the safedisk fix it is supposed to help

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Bharat
Yeah, I agree that is does not make any sense ! The only thing overclocked is the 1.6A, running at 2.3GHz.

I even tried downloading and installing the latest drivers, but no joy

The strange thing is that it works perfectly on my other PC, but since that is mainly set up for the wife, it becomes a bit tricky, if you know what I mean

Overclocking could be it. From what I've heard, it's a picky game.

For what it's worth, I might return my copy, or if I can't, sell it cheap. I don't like it.