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

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Everyone with the same problems: click "ME TOO"

I ran the tests for almost 2 hours. I know you usually need more time but I put my CPU and GPU to 100 percent load and it was going just fine when Simcity crashes after minutes so in my eyes 1 and a half hours is plenty time to see if it is hardware causing it or not.

When the black screen of death happens it is your computer shutting down to prevent any damages to your card right? It usually happens when the card is overheating am I correct? Could the card somehow THINK that it is overheating and shut down? I know some about computers but I am not a big tech guy so I have no idea how that stuff works. I can be wrong and I am probably wrong on this one heh. CPU 60-70 GPU 70-75 is not overheating temps.

Could be, but I'm not a tech guy either.

It's up to EA and Maxis to solve the problem now! It's getting very frustrating....

Could be the drivers as well. That would lay on AMD's doorstep. but from what i saw nvidia users are having problems as well. There is a recent nvidia driver out on the 4th that is made for simcity though. (for nvidia users) This isn't happening to all of the amd users but it seems to be a good amount. It is getting frustrating. I can deal with server issues (been a WoW player for 6 years) but this issue is non excusable. I would be happy with word from Maxis saying that they know and are working on a fix. I don't want to wait here for a fix and have them never even take a look at it.. 

Me too. Playing with MIN lighting and no shadows as a workaround until SOMEONE SOMEWHERE OUTTHERE FIXES THIS!

Using an AMD Radeon HD 6850.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Crashes/HERE-ARE-CRASH-SOLUTION-s/m-p/732598#M3632

Whoever was involved in making this game should hang their head in shame. Being an actual IT professional this is a complete disgrace to something labeled as "Professional". I have similar issues where it goes black and then just crashes the computer completely and then I have to hard reboot. No fix found for myself yet. Hope someone does though.

I hope every day for a fix, so I can finally play the game I paid for. And they should fix the blue grid shining through... Like you see in my video.

It looks like these problems are mainly with ATI Radeon?

EDIT: why isn't there still a fix? Because this is their priority: http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/590051/1/1/100/simcity-modders-vinden-super-debug-mode.html

this BSOD is a problem with the games software, from what i can tell, varyations in the time before the BSOD is differentiated by the graphics cards ability. From what I have seen and what i know of programming, im guessing somewhere in their code its overloading a function for display and audio (in many BSOD cases the audio freezes or repeats). from what i can tell, my systems still running, it just forces the graphics card and auido to crash. ive even run it in the lowest end settings and highest end settings using EVGA's Precision X software, runs fine in either untill whatever function is called then crashes.

EA's admins probably planned this and are laughing their heads off, if they do make a 'patch' to fix a BSOD they shouldn't use 'fixed crash' but 'fixed BSOD error' instead, so those of us suffering from this problem dont get our hopes up.

Yea. It is happening to a lot of us but not nearly enough for them to actually care. I think I am done wishing for a fix. I just want my money back now. You can't ignore people for too long before they give up. This game came out on the 5th and this problem is still happening with no goddamn word from anyone. I am done waiting.