Sim City 4 Won't Work on Vista

[Portugal]

I hate Vista! My precious Sim City 4 works on the regions menu but once you try to load a menu it goes black then takes me back to my desktop, can anyone help me?

System Specs:
Processor: Intel Core 2 2134MHz
Graphics Card: ATI RADEON X1600
Memory: 2048MB
Free Disk Space: 297.38GB
Optical Drive: N/A
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista

 

[kcwong]

Try running SC4 in compatibility mode. Right-click on the SC4 exe file, compatibility tab, put a check in "Run this program in compatibility mode for:", and select Windows XP.

Or it could be a compatibility problem between your video card driver and Vista. See if there's an update.

 

[Zelig]

Not likely a problem with Vista, I've played it fine on Vista 64-bit, make sure windows, your video card drivers, and the game are up to date.

 

[BirraImperial]

Played SC4 with Vista as well, no issues. The screen going black and then crashing to desktop suggests a problem with the graphics drivers.

 

[Portugal]

Well, I tried all of that and it failed to work, it looks like I have a problem wit my graphics card.

 

[Pyrion]

Being ATI, that's not surprising.

 

[Portugal]

Being ATI, that's not surprising.

Turns out I just needed the patch, even though it said I already was up to date I went ahead and downloaded it anyway and my problem was fixed.

 

[georgie4790]

Turns out I just needed the patch, even though it said I already was up to date I went ahead and downloaded it anyway and my problem was fixed.

tell me the name of the patch please and a link if you so desire

 

[J-man]

Sim City 4 is known to have problems with ATI cards.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The thread is two years old.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Thank you for pointing that out aimee. We couldnt tell.