[RR] Crash Fix for Vista/Windows 7

[icheyne]

via this thread on the Steam forum

There seems to be an issue where after playing the game for some time, it just locks up and then crashes. After some thorough research, it appears to be an issue where the game does not have the required setup to be allocated certain portions of your ram. In order to fix this, we must set it up so that it can get to this ram.

Disclaimer: Modified .exe's are being used with Steam, which may be a hazard to your account. However, I asked around on the forum and many people have done it and said it's fine. In addition, I am using a modified .exe myself, so I sincerely believe it will be fine.

This .exe has the fix already applied to it. Replace your railroads.exe in "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's railroads" with the downloaded .exe

 

[City Builder]

Is this just an altered Railroads.exe that there is another thread around here that tells how to make it so that it can use up to 3GB of memory, or is this different in some other way?

 

[warll]

it is the same in most respected, although the linked one includes some extra instructions for Vista/7 32bit users.

 

[Darth Fred]

After several unsuccessful tries at installing the 3GB enabler, I believe I've found a different fix for Vista.

The game disk itself looks like it will make a nifty sized Frisbee and Meier, 2K and Firaxis don't get another cent of my money.

Problem solved.

F