Sid Meier's Railroads!

I purchased this game over a year ago and couldn't get it to work under
Vista so I emailed Firaxis who said it wasn't designed for Vista which is
why it keeps crashing to the desktop. I had emailed them prior to this and
they suggested I try the different compatabiliy modes but this didn't work.
I guess I have wasted my money getting the game unless I install XP instead
of Vista.
Shawn

Shawn;
See if you can find others that use that program, perhaps someone has
a fix.
If the manufacturer has forums, you may be able to find a solution
there.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar



"Shawn Malligan" <shawnmalligan.RemoveThis@eftel.net.au.nospam> wrote in message
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>
> I purchased this game over a year ago and couldn't get it to work
> under Vista so I emailed Firaxis who said it wasn't designed for
> Vista which is why it keeps crashing to the desktop. I had emailed
> them prior to this and they suggested I try the different
> compatabiliy modes but this didn't work. I guess I have wasted my
> money getting the game unless I install XP instead of Vista.
> Shawn

"John Smith" <hatman721.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have this program installed on Vista Ultimate and every 5 minutes or so
>it crashes, screen goes black and it reverts back to the desktop.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Yes, I have several, the one at the top of my mind is your video card is
crashing. I'm not sure if Railroads has this option, but try running the
game in Windowed Mode (Check the game options), so when the game crashes
you'll see any pop-up message that may be getting obscured by the game
running full screen.

If Windows says something like Your display adapter stopped working and
Windows has recovered, it could be your video card drivers are crashing
(easy, just update them and that "might" fix it), or your video card is
overheating and crashing which is bad, and could require replacing the video
card, or simply cooling down your system a bit.

If you built the system yourself and are comfortable working inside, check
your system fans, make sure they are clean and spinning nice and fast while
the system is on. As a test you might try getting a small house fan, opening
up your case and pointing the fan at your system while you play, see if the
problem goes away.

If none of this is helping, reply and include your system
specs/make/model/video/audio/etc settings.

-A.

This is apparently due to a 32-bit application without LARGEADDRESSAWARE
not being able to see and use more then 2 GB on any Microsoft OS (32 or
64 bit). This doesn't mean the OS can't see more memory.. this means the
program was programed to only see 2gb total.. so it doesn't matter if it
is in x86 or x64, the program is restricted. Since the OS and other
resources eat up that same memory, when the game is set up just right..
it will crash due to lack of memory.

I believe I have solved it!

If anyone wants the windows vista x32 fixed exe for sid meiers
railroads give me an email. I've patched the executable to run under
vista 32 using the large address aware. Been playing it for weeks now
without a hitch. I'll zip it and send it to anyone who wants
it!!!!monkey.999@hotmail.co.uk


--
scotsparaman

I've experienced this problem too and found that the official patch
'(http://downloads.2kgames.com/railroads/RailroadsPatch110.zip'
(http://downloads.2kgames.com/railroads/RailroadsPatch110.zip)) helped a
lot. Also I was advised to set the '/LARGEADDRESSAWARE' switch on the
executable which stops the game from bombing out if it needs more than
2GB of memory.
Hope that this helps you!


--
MatthewG

how do you set the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE' switch on the executable?

"MatthewG" wrote:

>
> I've experienced this problem too and found that the official patch
> '(http://downloads.2kgames.com/railroads/RailroadsPatch110.zip'
> (http://downloads.2kgames.com/railroads/RailroadsPatch110.zip)) helped a
> lot. Also I was advised to set the '/LARGEADDRESSAWARE' switch on the
> executable which stops the game from bombing out if it needs more than
> 2GB of memory.
> Hope that this helps you!
>
>
> --
> MatthewG
>