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Anonymous
11 years ago

Game constantly crashing

Playing in iPhone and iPad - the game use to crash occasionally. Now it crashes immediately, every time on the iPhone as soon as it loads, and after about 5 minutes in the iPad. I've tried unlinking from Game Center but it automatically reconnects each time I restart the game. Will the new update fix this problem?

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  • EA_Barry's avatar
    EA_Barry
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    11 years ago

    Can you check if double clicking the home button on the device and closing all apps then restarting the game has any effect here please.

  • iPad mini retina, iOS ver 8.1.2, game is crashing every 30 secs to 2 mins. I tried closing all apps and even restarting the tablet, still crashing.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I know it sounds weird, but have you tried turning the sound off? It helped me a bit with memory I think.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I have tried this however it does not have any effect, the game still crashes repeatedly every 15seconds to 2min.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    In game : when I log in facebook its perfect , but in game centre it crashing and it close directly . plz fix this .

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    It appears individual trouble shooting might be necessary. Could you please contact customer support for that?

    1. Click on the following link: http://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/
    2. Make sure you are logged in (top right corner)
    3. Type in the name of the affected game
    4. Select 'Next' at the bottom right
    5. Select your platform and then 'Next' again
    6. Select topic from the drop down and type in a short description of your issue.
    7. Select a contact option. Please note that available contact options do depend on your country settings and time of day.

  • i'm having issues as well, but when i reinstalled the game i lost my city....

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    Has there been a fix for this? I was able to play last night around 11pm and that was the last time. This morning I tried loading the game and it crashes upon loading. I can't even get in. So I deleted it and re downloaded the game went through the tutorial and linked game enter to load my city. I was able to play. When I went back to get my stuff out of production i wasn't able to get on. Game ran fine on iPad 3G up to date ios and also crashes on iPhone 5s with ios7. This is bumming me out because the game is addicting.

    Edit: I tried on iPhone 5s to take off wifi and see if maybe wifi was messed up and still crashed. However if you play in airplane mode you can get the game to load but your playing offline and don't have access to friends or global trading. I guess that's better then nothing until the gets fixed?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    the image is all truncated and then it crash

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I am a loyal fan of the game that I have been playing this game since it's first released (with the old name) that I'm now playing it on Android (Samsung tablet), iOS (Ipad mini tablet) & Windows 10 (on BlueStacks). I am right now on game 303 that I have just 2 more to finish the current release (this will be my 3rd time that I finish all the games in the latest release and waiting for the new releases).

    The game constantly crashing problem happened since around after the 2nd game release and it is still constantly happening (on all the above platforms I have been playing on).

    Since I used to be a software engineer, can I throw you an educated guess that the game might have some 'memory leak' issues hidden in the code? As the game can crash anywhere it likes and not predictable & very intermittent. The only explanation I can think of is whenever the requests for more memory add up while the claimed memories are never released, the next memory request will fail as the game never frees up memory and so no more memory is available to be claimed which causes the software to crash upon failure of obtaining any more memories. At the same time, either the code is not written well enough to do exceptional handling or exceptional handling is not there at all, that the software fails to give the user any error warning before it crashes.

    I hope the above information is helpful for your debugging. Thanks so much as I truly enjoy the game so much but I'm really frustrated by all the sudden game crashing without any advance notice or warning. :-P

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