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SimCity 2013 stuck at loading screen
I recently bought a new Asus Vivobook 16 Flip (Lunar Lake) laptop. My OS is Windows 11 Home. I installed SimCity and I'm having a huge issue. I start the game. It makes me watch the long intro video and then it goes to the main start page with a spinning wheel in the upper right hand corner. The menu never appears. Sometimes if I restart and reload the game it will get to the main menu but when I try and load my city (Titan Gorge) it gets stuck at the loading screen. How do I fix this without uninstalling and reinstalling the game every time? This is ridiculous.Will there ever be a new "Sim City" (not buildit) game?
Is there ever a chance of a real Sim City game being developed (mobile included)? SimCity BuiltIt is just not... SimCity. That game has turned into a whirlpool of never ending tracks and has completely lost its way from what SimCity originally was. The first Sim City game I played was Sim City 2000 - can that be ported and maybe updated to a degree to be a mobile game?
Sim City 2013 Multiplayer: friend's city is completely empty
Hi everyone, My friend and I are trying to play SimCity 2013 multiplayer, but we've hit a game-breaking bug and are looking for help. TL;DR: Our cities don't sync and always appear as empty plots (ghost cities) to each other. This happens on every server we try (EU, NA). We also found a major time desync between our games. The Problem When we play in a region together, the following happens: I can see her city name on the correct plot, but the city itself is just an empty field. She sees the same thing for my city: an empty plot with the correct name. Visiting each other's city just loads an empty map. System Details We are playing on PC, launching through the EA App. I am playing via PC Game Pass (which includes EA Play). My friend owns the game directly on the EA App. What We've Already Tried Waiting for over an hour for the game to sync. Restarting the game and the EA App multiple times. Sending money to force a sync (my game said "Success," but the money never arrived). Creating brand new regions on different servers (EU East, NA East). The bug happens every single time. Key Clues We Found Partial Sync: Basic info like city names syncs correctly, but the actual city data (roads, buildings, etc.) does not. Time Desync: We discovered our games are running on different timelines inside the same region. For example, my city was in "August, Year 1" while my friend's was in "January, Year 1." Has anyone run into a bug like this before, especially the time desync issue? Are there any known fixes we haven't tried? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. EDIT/UPDATE: The Final Nail in the Coffin For anyone following this, I just performed one final test. I tried to use the in-game feature to "Transfer Multiplayer Region to Single Player" to see if I could at least save my own city. The result was exactly what you might expect: the process got stuck on an infinite loading screen. Specifically, it hung while trying to download my friend's city data. This confirms the data for her city is not just invisible, but so fundamentally corrupted or incomplete on the server that it cannot even be packaged for a download. The "ghost town" is, for all intents and purposes, a ghost file on EA's servers. From all regions.SIMCITY
I'll launch it from the EA app, it says whatever about permissions and then the launcher opens and says its got an update to do. Update finishes and it says that my network connection is not connected(which makes no sense since it just downloaded an update but whatever). Tells me I have to reload into Singleplayer which is fine and all I want to do anyway. Well the problem is that when I click single player and the launcher restarts, it just redownloads the update again and the cycle continues. HELP PLEASE I have removed the program completely and reloaded it i included an upgrade and did a maintainence check on it unfortunately makes no difference.
Convert SimCity 4 retail copy to digital
I'm trying to install the now ancient SimCity4 using a physical copy I have lying around. However, the setup gets stuck at 44.80% and doesn't tell me to insert the 2nd disc. I did so anyhow, yet still it did not progress beyond that percentage. I've seen that it is/used to be possible to convert your retail copies to digital ones within Origin. Since we've now got the EA app, I'm wondering if and how I can do this. Tried getting in touch with support, but of course I cannot select this product as since it's so old. Tried selecting SimCity Buildit instead, and still couldn't fill out the form as I literally can't select anything in the console field. Help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
SimCity 2013, Failed to launch game
Wanted to play the game again but encountered the following problem trying to launch the game. it asks for admin privileges it fails to launch the game I don't seem to be the only one having this problem so i would like to know if there is a solution for it yet. I tried different ways of setting compatibility settings like giving admin privileges and setting compatibility to win 8 for the game as well as some launcher files. I also tried reinstalling, changing the installation directory and so on, but no matter what i did and how much i searched i couldn't find a fix. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
