Sim City 4 Crashing

[Oreoflow]

I recently installed Sim City 4.. and ran into a couple problems. The first one is that if I have folding running the game constantly minimizes to the desktop. I solved this problem by closing folding whenever I play sim city. I then played the game non-stop for a few days with almost no problems. Then it got a nasty habit. It will randomly without warning close the game. It simply exits to windows and the game is closed. I tried shutting down all background programs that I could and the problem persisted. It's almost like there's a trigger in the game that causes it to crash.

I was wondering if anyone else had expereinced something like this or if anyone could think of a possible fix. Thanks.

Comp specs:

Winchester 3500+
2x512 pc4000
2xraptors in raid 0
ATI X800xl

I have the latest catalyst and nforce4 drivers. Updated raid drivers and all current windows updates.


Thanks for any help...

[primesuspect]

Do you have the latest sim city patch?

Also, the graphical client does cause problems with minimization of directX games (or is it OpenGL, I can never remember). If you use the text-only version of folding and/or run it as a service, you will not experience those problems. It happens only with the graphical version.

The latest patch that I could find was 1.0.272 (here (http://www.gamershell.com/download_1808.shtml))

[Oreoflow]

I installed the latest patch to the game, still crashes. I don't know if it matters, but it's the Deluxe version of the game.