Game freezes when buying trains

code.grey · Post by **code.grey** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:36 pm

Hi,

this is Stefan from Germany (--> sorry for my bad English).

Can anybody help me?
I`m not far in this game by now, because evey time I want to buy my first train, the game freezes.

This is my system:
CPU 939 AMD Athlon 64 3700+
Ram 1026 MB
GRX Club3D GF 6600GT 128 MB PCI-Express
Mot S939 Asus A8N-SLI Glan/2x1394

Thanks for your answers.

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:26 pm

What version are you running and what games are you running? Also, what Mods do you have loaded?

And Welcome to the Forum!

code.grey · Post by **code.grey** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:53 am

Thanks for your reply.

First I was running the demo version, but the full game with the patch 1.10 freezes too when buying trains.

There are no mods loaded.

Other games installed on my computer:
- Anno 1701
- The Movies
- Civilization IV
- Civilization III
- Alpha Centauri

I have no idea how to solve the problem.

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:04 pm

OK, I'm sorry bout that, what I should have asked was what MAPS are you running. Since you said you have no Mods loaded, you may have a problem since some require certain Mods.

Do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to view the Task Manager and see what is running. If you can do two monitors, put the Task Manager on the 2nd screen and play the game. Watch the CPU column and see what is trying to run.

Also, download Ad-Aware and Spybot. They are both free and will clean any junk from the Internet running in the background.

See if any of that helps.

apopholeus813 · Post by **apopholeus813** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:06 am

I have a laptop less than a month old, 1 Gig RAM, 256 Graphic card-way above recommended specs. I've had to turn down the graphic options to min. and turn off all alerts and disable autosave and be carefull not to scroll around the map to fast for the game not to crash on a regular basis for me. I have spent a decent amount of time checking out all my hardware and getting the latest upgrades to my drivers and still have the same problems- So it's a software problem. Really annoying especially considering that there's a good game underneath.

code.grey · Post by **code.grey** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:19 pm

I think, I found the solution for my problem.

I spendt a lot of time checking my system. I made a new setup for win xp, I was updating all drivers for the hardware... but the game still freezes.

Now I found out, when I disable the virus-scanning-programm the game runs without freezing (when buying trains)

Thanks for all your help.

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:16 pm

Yes, other people have had problems like that too, I had to shut down Nero because it was waiting like a dog for any pic I accessed, it wanted to know if I wanted to save them. Another guy had his HP printer program sucking up CPU time in the background. Nasty little buggers

dwax · Post by **dwax** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:58 pm

if you have an on board video card I would say that's a good place to look. the game is very graph intence. It makes my Sapphire ATI X800 even lag where there are alot of traind going. And it heats up the X800 pretty good too.