Forum: SimCity Societies Questions, Problems and Troubleshooting

I just installed Sim Cities Societies. When I try to play, the opening video shows, then it asks for a player name. The problem: the blue arrow which replaces the normal Windows cursor doesn't move when the mouse is moved. Also, I can't input a player name. As a result, I cannot play the...

This is in the demo version, I wanted to try it before the disc arrived, yet there is no mouse pointer to even go past the opening screen, so I was unable to try it, any help?

i have installed simcity societies it ran once on my windoow 7 i changed some setting after than the following error is showing i have tried to reinstall direct x twice and the game twice someone please help Description: Stopped working Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH...

Well i got on EA for $20 for the quick install thought this day i've been try alot of stuff from the post but nothing sames to work. I not shere why this computer that i got in 09 is not run this game at all. i click on the icon twice the like hour glass aperes on the side oh the mouse then...

I'm hoping someone can help me... I can't seem to get this game to run on my PC even after several failed attempts. My specs: Windows XP SP2 AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.19 GHz 2 Gig RAM 186 Gig Hard Drive with 165 Gig free ATI Radeon X1650 Video CardWhat's happening:

When I first installed the game, I adjusted the settings downward so the game would play smoothly even when the city was large. Now I no longer see trees on the map, no matter how high I put the vegetation meter. I also cannot plant trees---the option doesn't even appear in the menu, let alone...

I downloaded it, installed it throught ea download manager and it said it finished, but when i click on it to run it nothing happens, i have ran it as administrator, and restarted my computer, it was working fine the first time i installed it but i un installed and re installed to a different drive...

on sim city destinations when the game loads there is a blue mouse cursor in the middle of the screen and it freezes everytime i load the game. I have configured my mouse to the game and it still freezes. how do i fix this so I can actually play the game.

Hi guys... I installed the game (Deluxe) and when I click on the icon to start the game it gives me a ScSocietiesLauncher.exe - Application Error Process ID=0x608 (1544), Thread ID=0xcdc (3292) Click OK to terminate the application Click CANCEL to debug the application WHAT DO I DO?

i just bought Sim societies online at WWW.direct2drive.com it came with key code but when i get it installed after 2 hours it says insert Cd into drive "d" I've messed with this thing all day. I've tried installing it into drive "c" but not enough memory WAT DO I DO? or did i just waste $20 buying...

I got this bug after I replaced the game's exe with a no cd crack from gamecopyworld,and after this i tried the other avalible crack on the site,but with no success ,then i googled the problem,and i only found out that this is not an unique bug,but there is no known reason of it and no known...

Hi, i have just brought simcity and i have a problem in stalling it when it gets stuck i have tried a disk clean up & disk defragmenter but none of its working any help? :D thanx:confused:

To begin with, I purchased SimCity Societies from Wal-Mart. During installation, I noticed the installer was installing "Productname", I dunno if this has anything to do with it or not, but it installed to an EA directory... Whenever I attempt to run the program, I get prompted that it caused...

hi i installed simcity 4 deluxe on my mac through the parallels desktop software (my game being a pc game) and i started playing it fine. i then changed the screen resolution and the game told me that the changes wouldn't initiate until a restart. anyways, i saved my game and went to replay the...

Hi. I just installed SimCity Societies but when I went to play the game for the first time, a pop-up said "Unable to find valid device" and then said the source was "c:\sc5enginework/source/engine". Can anyone help? Thanks!:confused:

:)thanx for helping:) i just got this game today and when i install it says please enter the entire code found on the back of ure manual or cd/dvd case i wright ISBN-0-7845-4489-1 and when i click it says u have entered an invaild code and then and wright it again and it still says the same thing...

Hello. I just purchased simcity societies and destinations. Destinations automatically installed patch 5. As soon as I started playing scenario/strategy mode, it seemed that it didn't work correctly. It was EXCESSIVELY difficult to make any money (even in relaxed mode) because the revenue...

Hello, I just bought this game for my son, and I am having issues trying to load this on two different machines. The first machine is an old Dell running XP. The problem is it keeps saying it is missing something for directx and I am unable to load up the directX. Not sure the weirdness...

Please help me i really want to know where i should install mods for sim city societies deluxe! :confused: thanks.

Thankfully I generally have had almost no unhappy people; the first time I got a total of 15 that were unhappy and I just for the life of me could not track them down -- eventually I figured out I had made a monastery too close to the water, and although it let me build and said teh opening of the...

Hm, i have a very strange prob, when i mount the image it starts the auto play ofc, i pick the installation lingo, and then click to install societies (since i have spore demo and destinations on the same disc). After i click on the button for choice socities it just closes the process and nothing...

I got the game, installed it, ran it for one evening, and now can't get anywhere. I uninstalled and reinstalled, but nothing has changed. When I try to start via the desktop icon, I get an error message saying "No disc inserted. Please insert the original "SimCity Societies" CD/DVD--even though...

I am having trouble understanding how to download the mods. On my laptop, I have no trouble, the files just open with winrar and ask me to download into the game no problem and I am able to use them, but on my desktop, I can't seem to open any of the files to load them into the game. When I save...