Talk about infuriating. SimCity Societies is the best Sim game I’ve played in a long time, but I can hardly play it with all the problems going on. The game is so graphically demanding that even my relatively powerful computer can’t run it at high detail settings. So, no problem: turn the settings down. Then my city starts to grow; it currently covers about one-third of the map, and the game crashes everytime I play, seemingly at random. Could be ten minutes, could be half-an hour, all that’s for sure is that the game will die
Then I find out from some random forum that it could be the auto-save feature, so I disable auto-save.
And you know what? The game ran almost perfectly. I still couldn’t turn the detail settings up, and it still froze once or twice, but I managed to play for nearly an hour with no crashing. Then I went to quit and… the game wouldn’t die. I had to manually kill it with Task Manager, then reboot to fix my display settings. Now I go to play it and—who would’ve thought—the game crashes before it even loads.
I don’t know what the hell Tilted Mill did when they made this game, but maybe some kind of beta testing would have been nice, to work out all the crashing bugs? The truly sad part is that Societies is a great game, and a large number of people who have purchased Societies are still reporting similar issues after two patches.
Yargman1 said on January 21, 2008 @ 8:00 AM:
Dude, that sucks. Any word on a new patch being put out?
Maikeru said on January 21, 2008 @ 10:17 AM:
Nothing I’ve heard of, but they must be working on one. There’s a poll on EA’s Societies support board that asks "How often does Societies crash for you?" Over half of the votes are "every time I play", so they must know that this is still a problem for a lot of people.