Graphic freez hard reboot!

[City Builder]

I was trying to get back here to post earlier, but my Internet connection at home barfed all over itself and I couldn't get to any websites except for google for some reason, all the rest of them were dead, I thought it strange that I had just been playing KB when it happend and my initial thoughts were that it had screwed up my network somehow. Anyway, internet is back and here I am to say that I was able to play for about 1 hour without a freeze, I may have been able to play longer but I had to take care of some issues at home here, so this time I quit the game instead of the game quitting me.

The only difference this time is that I had changed all the settings like I did in the demo, other than I don't recall what I set them to in the demo, but here's a screenshot that I took when my internet was dead of the settings panel in the game, this (SO FAR) seems to allow me to play okay (keeping fingers crossed).

I installed KB on one of the other computers here next to me, which is a Vista 32bit, with 2GB RAM and an 8800 GTS and played it for about 2 hours without any problems at all, and that was with all settings on high except turned off shadows, so Im stumped as to why it freezes on yours with XP, and freezes on my Vista 64bit, but doesn't freeze on my vista 32bit.

Anyway, try out these game settings (I know you said you already tried it with minimal settings but perhaps the game coding is shist and stumbling upon the correct combination of settings might make the difference like it has so far for me) and see if it works out for you. Like I said, it's only been 1 hour of playing, but had no problems in that one hour and could have played longer if I had the time.

Hope it helps you too.

I'm going to try playing it again some more before dawn and see if it continues to play nice or if it locks up the computer again. But because it was locking up my computer within the first 2 to 10 minutes and I now managed to play for 1 hour, I have to think that it's working okay for me now. I have this deep seated feeling that I'll eventually run into a arena fight or some other odd ball graphics that the developers have put into it somewhere while Im playing and get it to lock up again, but so far, so good. I hope it continues to play without locking up, that gets old really fast.

[fisklisa]

... really strange this.. but it works!
really big thanks citybuilder.. dont know why but i guess youre right, theres some kind of "right" settings glitch.. have been playing for 3hours without crash or freeze.. but i quit on my own.

so once again.. big thanks

[City Builder]

Pleased I could help. Theres my good deed for the year, now I can go back to being the old grumpy bastage for the remainder. LOL

[FarAway Sooner]

Honestly, I had this problem, but could always solve it by Alt+Tabbing out to my desktop (or any other application) and then Alt+Tabbing back into the game.

I might have to do it every couple hours, or I might not, but it was a 5-second fix. See if that works.

[luna_park]

yes alt-tab would fix the flashing graphics but it would still lock up now and again and need a hard reset.

I found city builders fix fixes that flashing and the lock ups, i've been playing for a couple of days now with no crash.

from the sounds of things on the forum the crash is to do with the vista and 8000 serires video cards. I never had a problem on xp.

Edit: seems its still crashing giving me a black screens now. So irratating

[Antonius]

I have the same issue. I cannot play for more than a few minutes. I am running Vista 64 and am using 2 BFG GTX280s in SLI.

[Nike-it]

Originally Posted by Antonius

I have the same issue. I cannot play for more than a few minutes. I am running Vista 64 and am using 2 BFG GTX280s in SLI.

The problem may be in SLI mode, try to switch off one of the cards.