EA's Simcity 4

[the great one]

I hav recently installed simcity 4 on my system
My sys config ::

P IV 1.6 , 384 SDRAM , 40 GB HDD(10 GB Free) , 128 MB NVIDIA GEFORCE FX5500(Direct x 9.0c installed) , DVD WRITER.

Game requirement::

- Minimum System Specs
CPU: PIII 500 or equivalent
RAM: 128MB
Video: 16MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0
compatible driver
Disk Space: 1GB
CD-ROM: 8X or faster

- Recommended System Specs
CPU: P4 1GHz or equivalent
RAM: 256MB
Video: 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0
compatible driver
Disk Space: 1GB
CD-ROM: 8X or faster

Altrhough all the requirements are fulfilled but the game crashes after showing the maxis logo, intro movie then the simcity 4 screen , it crashes before showing the main menu of the game...
Wat could b the problem????
Any answers ?????



This is the config log created by the game::::

Log generated on 6/13/2008, 19:15
Flags
-----
hardwareDriver = true
DXT = true
fullscreen = true
MMX = true
FPU = true
backingStore = true
forcedFSAA = false
Strings
-------
userName = Rajat Bhatia
appName = SimCity 4
version = 1.1.610.0
osVersion = Windows NT 5.1
computerName = RAJAT
CPU = GenuineIntel
sglDriverName = DirectX
sglDriverVersion = 2.0
driverName = nv4_disp.dll
driverVersion = 6.14.11.6218, GUID: D7B71E3E-4066-11CF-0073-03240EC2CD35
cardName = NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
cardVersion = Vendor: 10de, Device: 0326, Board: 40310b0, Chipset: 00a1
cardIdentity = NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
soundDriverName =
soundCardName = Primary Sound Driver
buildType = Release
Numbers
-------
cpuSpeed = 1615
memory = 384
freeMemory = 164
screenWidth = 1024
screenHeight = 768
screenBPP = 16
videoMemory = 125
textureMemory = 125
textureStages = 8
bogoFPS = 0
bogoMPPS = 0
Rules
-----
applying Sound
applying high sound detail
applying Memory Use
applying high memory
option 9 = 3
option 12 = 1
applying Standard hardware
option 0 = 2
option 1 = 2
option 2 = 2
option 4 = 1
option 5 = 1
option 7 = 1
option 8 = 1
option 9 = 3
option 6 = 1
option 10 = 1
option 11 = 1
applying Two stages
applying Lotsa vidmem
Options
-------
Visual Effects current: 2 recommended: 2
Cars/Sims current: 2 recommended: 2
Shadows current: 2 recommended: 2
Atmospheric effects current: 1 recommended: 1
Water effects current: 1 recommended: 1
Software/Hardware current: 1 recommended: 1
Cursor current: 1 recommended: 1
VariableSpeedAutomata current: 1 recommended: 1
Translucent UI current: 1 recommended: 1
Graphic Detail current: 3 recommended: 3
Building Load Speed current: 0 recommended: 0
Texture Quality current: 0 recommended: 0
Properties
-------
forcesoftwaredriver = false
renderdynamicview = true
renderstaticview = true
renderwatereffects = true
rendercloudsandfog = true
forcepointsampling = false
forcebilinear = false
forcenoalphablend = false
forcenoalphatest = false
rendershadows = true
renderdecals = true
usesecondstage = true
forcedebugtexture = false
renderparticleeffects = true
renderflorashadows = true
renderterrain = true
showupdateregions = false
usecursoreffects = true
drawlottextures = true
drawlotfoundations = true
drawlotwalls = true
forcetexturerepeat = false
usescreenshake = true
renderui = true
useupdaterectclipping = true
usevertexbuffers = true
showboundingboxes = false
useoverlayculling = true
rendersnapshot = false
noaddsigned = false
nopartialbackingstorecopies = false
usescreenflash = true
renderautomata = true
preferopaque = false
displayalertborders = true
drawlotopaquetextures = true
useviewcleanup = false
doautozoomandrotationchanges = true
viewoffsety = 0
viewoffsetx = 0
texturebits = 32
lodoffset = 0
shadowdebug = 0
maxparticlestarget = 10000
particlelodoffset = 0
effectprioritylevel = 5
backingstoremaxzoomall = 5
backingstoremaxzoombuildingsprops = 5
backingstoremaxzoomterrain = 5
backingstoremaxzoomflora = 5
shadowquality = 2
minvehiclezoom = 3
minpedzoom = 4
cursortype = 1
depthoffset = 2
debugtexture = 0
dirtyrectmergeframes = 4
sounddetail = 2
buildingvariety = 2
buildingloaderspeed = 1
modellodoffset = 0
stringtexturecachesize = 1024
particleeffectslod = 5
splattexturescale = 50
texbindmaxfree = 8
particledensity = 1
particledamping = 0
particlescale = 1
lightingupdatedelta = 0.0001
shadowmodelthreshold = 12
demolishmodelthreshold = 12
rendermodelthreshold = 6
rendermodelthresholdscroll = 40
particlesizethreshold = 300
maxvehiclepct = 1
maxpedpct = 1
opaqueuialphavalue = 0.55

[the great one]

No replies to my query any answers plz

[moshel]

seems to be some problem with some .dll file. I suppose ur using XP?? the log is showing windows NT 5.1.

is this original game or pirated one?

if original then download the newer patch for the game. also see if ur video card has any driver updates. also run the dx9.0c installer from the latest digit cd/dvd.

[the great one]

Ok thnks will try these options and thnks 4 d help