Random Crashes Procedure

[CloudyPeak]

Hi all :o)

I am having random crashes and these are becoming more frequent as my city grows as are alot of people here in the community forums. This is what I suggest to do:

1/ Ensure you have the latest patch for the game (1 I think).

2/ Make sure your computer operating system has all the available patches and updates installed.

3/ Update the video driver to the latest.

4/ Do no more than this as I'm convinced its the game at fault. It is simply unstable because it is new and has not been fully tested. I have been in this exact situation with new games and it happens almost every time a brand new game is released. Sit tight ...... EA will patch it and within a year it should be running faultlessly. Civ 4 was a shocker as was SimCity 4 at the start. Lord of the Rings online is full of problems at present so don't worry!!!!!

Don't reinstall your operating systems or gut out your computers just for 1 game. Ask yourselves how many of your other games give trouble. In my case its none !!!! ... Only SimCity Societies .... no other.

I play WOW Burning Crusade and it is faultless with 100's of crash free hours so can U see my logic ?.

I'm going back to SimCity 4 Rush hour as its a much more complex and entertaing game than Societies however I'll be back into Societies once EA and Tilted Mill sort their problems out. Its not my problem.

[Ed.]

Sit tight ...... EA will patch it and within a year it should be running faultlessly.A year is unacceptable. It might take that to write the entire game, not a patch. I'd imagine we'd be looking at weeks for a fix for this.

It's fustrating because I really love the game. I was building a Cyberpunk city, saw the roads changing and could hear people being sick; cool. But as the population neared 12k and I added some more housing, it just dies.

Think of Microsoft Flight Simulator X. They released a game that didn't run well on all machines but SP1 gave a massive performance and stability increase. It was a huge patch too, rewriting many core files and also allowing more support for multi-cores. This did take a few months however.

[CloudyPeak]

:mad: Its been a marathon but alas this one has beaten me. Uninstalled the game and will sell on Trade-me. It wins the prize for the most buggy piece of software I have purchased in my 21 years on computers. 3 patches achieved nothing!