Save your game regularly

[MistahSleepy]

I just lost 9 hours of progress and a 50k pop city because the game crashed and I didn't save during the entire playthrough.

There is no autosave in these old games, don't make my mistake. I don't know when I will be motivated enough to restart SC3k.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Well, yea, this advice applies to any game you expect to play for a while, really.

1st thing I do, new game or not, in any game I expect to play for a while, is figure out the save system.

If no autosave is included, then I save manually at least every hour.

And in newer complex sandbox games like this one, that includes autosaving - i.e. Cities Skylines or Transport Fever - I usually play with autosave off anyway, due to performance and stability reasons.

[TruthRealm]

Originally posted by MistahSleepy:

the game crashed

That's tremendously rare for SimCity 3000 Unlimited to crash, am saying this as an individual whom has played it continuously

I think i've gotten low-single-digit crashes or similar total in the past decade and for context, that's it being 1 of my initial 3 installations and never falling out of my top ~5 most played

That said I've never not used both GOG's widescreen executable and ntc's util applied to it

• Simcity 3000 Unlimited - widescreen support - GOG SUPPORT CENTER[files.gog.com]
• 4GB Patch - NTCore[ntcore.com]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

newer complex sandbox...that includes autosaving...play with autosave off anyway, due to performance and stability reasons.

+1