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- From: lchong@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Leo Chong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: SimCity locks up
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.203640.23336@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:36:40 GMT
- References: <1ihi4mINN7gl@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de>
- Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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- In article <1ihi4mINN7gl@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> atoenne@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Andreas Toenne) writes:
- >Hello all,
- >
- >this is probably a stupid problem but I hate it.
- >
- >I tried to install the DOS version of SimCity on my computer and when I
- >run the install.exe on the *original* disks in drive A: the computer
- >locks up hard. Cold boot time! If I do the installation by hand then simcity
- >itself locks up in the same style. No single pixel of output.
- >
- >Has any1 experienced the same problem? Maybe it is related to DOS 5.0?
- >Should I apply the loadfix?
- >
- > Any help will be appreciated.
- >
- > Andreas
- >
- >P.S. SimCity for Windows is buggy crap. For me it crashes with protection
- >violations every 5 minutes.
- >--
-
- This happened to me alot and after experimenting with my config.sys and
- autoexec.bat for 3 hours or so, I narrowed it down to my mouse driver.
- After I switched from my MS mouse driver to the Znix mouse driver, it
- worked fine with no crashes for hours. Ain't that weird?
-
- lchong@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
-