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Re: Simcity "signal loss" "Black screen of death" thread

Did everyone give up? Or.... does it work now?  (I can't check. I have it uninstalled)

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  • I'm still having the same issue. I seriously think that this is an issue with Origin though rather than Simcity. The game crashed on me earlier. I did a hard reboot and started playing Battlefield 2142 which had never crashed before on my machine. About 20 minutes into the game the same thing happened.
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    12 years ago
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    Will the save game I got the one that I managed to play now freezing no longer work after reaching 80k population.. ^_^  Im guessing I can start all over again play for 3hrs and freeze so in the end  still a problem.. They already announce release on mac but they havent resolve thousand of bugs in this game.. wth

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    When I search for origin shutting down games each thread brings up overheating... /shrugs. 

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    If it's overheating (what I was also told by EA support) then why does it happen sometimes after five minutes of play, sometimes after 3 hours of play? Some cities are warmer than others?!?

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    12 years ago
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    Some cities have global warming simulation and I guess that is what causes it.

  • Do you think tat this might have to do with outdated directX drivers. I was just looking at the Origin Help forums and they mentioned in some of their threads that that might be te cause.
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    I'm pretty sure I have latest updates on it.. Let me try once i'm back from home..  Just strange some people is actually claiming that they were playing without any issues lol...

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    How many of you are running this game with 2 monitors? If so, try disabling the 2nd monitor? Does it fix the issue? I ask cause I got a blue screen when playing metro 2033 and the fix was disabling the 2nd monitor. Could be worth a try.
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    Anyone? Oh well I guess we will have to wait for the update on the 22nd. I will reinstall the game then to see if it is working right.

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    How is the new patch working for everyone?

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    12 years ago
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    To be honest, rubbish.  Getting frequent and sudden crashes, anything from a couple of minutes to 20 minutes.  Very frustrated.

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    Glad to see they are working hard to fix this game.

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    Anonymous
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    I'm using two monitors.

    BTW, my other Origin game does the same random crashing trick...

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    If it's overheating (what I was also told by EA support) then why does it happen sometimes after five minutes of play, sometimes after 3 hours of play? Some cities are warmer than others?!?


    ^^^^ THIS. 3 minutes, 3 hours. Whenever. 

    I unplugged/disabled my second monitor completely and I still get the crash. After the last time I posted here, I still had crashes. Just updating the big patch now. Not holding my breath...

    A friend bought the game yesterday (much after me pushing him not to) and he's had absolutely no errors whatsoever. He has a very, very average laptop (I wouldn't even call it a gaming laptop) and I have a reasonably good gaming computer. FTW EA. 

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    wwwwwwoooowwww... I installed the patch and went to play. Had to feed the animals, so I clicked load on my city and AFK'd. 

    I come back 10 minutes later to find my computer has restarted in safe mode. 

    Seriously, fix this **bleep** EA. I want to play this game so bad. And now I **bleep**ing hate it, purely because off all this frustration!

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    12 years ago
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    @mipoiss wrote:

    I'm using two monitors.

    BTW, my other Origin game does the same random crashing trick...


    ME3 does the same here too.

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    12 years ago
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    Anyone tried with the 2.2 update?