I was wondering what to play last week, and I found Sim City 3000 (World Edition). So I installed it again and started playing it. I soon remembered why exactly I installed and uninstalled it several times the last time I was playing it... The stupid game keeps freezing on me!!! Mostly the scenarios. They freeze every 20 minutes or so. I can still hear the music, and I can move the mouse, but the picture freezes. It's really annoying because you can't save the scenarios (they get saved as a City and not as a Scenario) so I have to start playing all over again...

There's nothing wrong with the computer; it's strong enough because I can play NWN on it, so that should be okay. I did a scandisc a while ago, and nothing is wrong there either... The game just freezes, without any reason. I tried looking for patches online, but I couldn't find any. I tried looking for answers on several sites, but none of them give any solution... And no, I didn't use any cheats so that can't be the answer either. So, does anybody here know what is wrong? It's driving me crazy! Just when I start playing the game properly, it freezes and I have to reboot!

Oh, sorry if this is in the wrong place. I looked around and didn't find a better place for it. [img]tongue.gif[/img] (Please move it if it has to be moved.) :D

<font color="lightblue">What OS are you running ?? I have heard of problems with Sim games on Win NT/2k/XP... </font>

2000, I think. Why would that be a problem? Most of the people that bought that game then had it, no?... :(

i had that problem with simcity 3000 on my machine in 98.... i never found a solution...

Win 2000 is not the problem, if it was it would tell you right away, by not running it at all. When I had it there were some games I couldn't play but those that did run never froze at all.

Did you try to find a patch or a update for the game, might help [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 09-02-2002, 07:10 AM: Message edited by: Jorath Calar ]

It could be a sound problem, turn of the music and only use ambient sounds, it worked for me.

I couldn't find any patches. I went to their official site and a bunch of others - no patches. :(

But why do only scenarios freeze after 20 minutes (every time)? The normal game usually works. [img]smile.gif[/img]