GAME CRASHING

[Xandael]

The game is crashing a lot here. I've already tried some suggestions I saw on forums like disabling autosave, checking the integrity of the files, uninstalling and reinstalling the game and nothing worked.

Does anyone have any idea what else I can try?

Do you know if Paradox is already aware of this bug and has spoken or is doing something about it?

It's impossible to play like this! It's incredible that the game is like this more than a year after its release.

Thank you very much.

[lys_knight]

I understand your frustration. Personally I crash every 3 or 4 hours. In fact it just "quits to the desktop" very suddenly (no warning - no error message) - I always make sure that auto save is on because of that. I play with mods and although Skyve II is telling me it's all okay it maybe a mod issue. I know that for some people the crashes happen a lot making the game unplayable. I would contact Paradox support with the log file(s).

[DenverDoggy]

its been happening for a bit, everytime they update they undo good work it seems

[Pigasus The Immortal]

Originally posted by Xandael:

The game is crashing a lot here. I've already tried some suggestions I saw on forums like disabling autosave, checking the integrity of the files, uninstalling and reinstalling the game and nothing worked.

Does anyone have any idea what else I can try?

Do you know if Paradox is already aware of this bug and has spoken or is doing something about it?

It's impossible to play like this! It's incredible that the game is like this more than a year after its release.

Thank you very much.

+1

Do we know if Paradox/CO are aware?

[cultural_lover]

Brand new Alien laptop 18 inch i9 24 core Nvidia 4080 and crash crash crash crash. If I do make it to 100K then its a crawl......No matter how good your processor and GPU this game defeats it....smh

[Xandael]

Originally posted by lys_knight:

I understand your frustration. Personally I crash every 3 or 4 hours. In fact it just "quits to the desktop" very suddenly (no warning - no error message) - I always make sure that auto save is on because of that. I play with mods and although Skyve II is telling me it's all okay it maybe a mod issue. I know that for some people the crashes happen a lot making the game unplayable. I would contact Paradox support with the log file(s).

It was working here until about 50 thousand inhabitants, then it started to close, exactly as you described, "In fact it just "quits to the desktop" very suddenly (no warning - no error message)", every 20 or 30 minutes at most. Does anyone know how we could contact Paradox and inform them of this problem? I believe that if more people reported the same problem they would pay more attention to the case.

[intrinsica]

--> CONFIRMED CRASH WORKAROUND FOR CORE i9 <--

My system is a recent i9-14900K 24-core [32 logical processors] along with a 4080. I have been successful in minimizing the more frequent crashing in the latest patch by setting the 'Cities2.exe' process affinity to avoid P-cores 4 & 5 [plus their logical pair 12 & 13]. I was able to build a stable-running city with a population of 1.2 million. Here is the advanced command string in my launch properties:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity ffffcfcf "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities Skylines II\Cities2.exe" %command%

[King DaMuncha]

I cant even get past the main menu, the game crashes on load. Then I finally force it start after 20 reloads.

This game has been out a whole year now. And I still cant play it longer than an hour this year.

♥♥♥♥ you Paradox! And ♥♥♥♥ you Collossal Order! I will NEVER buy another Collosal / Paradox game again.

[Allan]

Originally posted by Xandael:

The game is crashing a lot here. I've already tried some suggestions I saw on forums like disabling autosave, checking the integrity of the files, uninstalling and reinstalling the game and nothing worked.

Does anyone have any idea what else I can try?

Do you know if Paradox is already aware of this bug and has spoken or is doing something about it?

It's impossible to play like this! It's incredible that the game is like this more than a year after its release.

Thank you very much.

Do you play in Fullscreen or Fuldscreen/Window?

[Xandael]

Anyone have any replay of Paradox?

[Szymas]

Paradox don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about players.

[Fishwy Gaming]

Originally posted by cultural_lover:

Brand new Alien laptop 18 inch i9 24 core Nvidia 4080 and crash crash crash crash. If I do make it to 100K then its a crawl......No matter how good your processor and GPU this game defeats it....smh

Yes, the base game is probably okay enough in relation to how it's programmed but the integration with mods is a catastrophe which I thought was the aim to fix with this game.
And many think there are too many negative comments, but as you indicate, regardless of power in your computer, the issues/crashes are sooo random, over a year has passed, there aren't any real alternatives and there are so many things from the modding community CSI they have just been arrogant about so I understand the frustration out there. And it's not about wanting this game to fail, it's the opposite, I enjoy this game when it works with mods, but playing the base game for us that are more interested in designing a city is not an alternative . It's simply too boring placing the same school, same police station etc over and over again especially considering the simulation is not very good either.

[Pigasus The Immortal]

Originally posted by Fishwy Gaming:

Originally posted by cultural_lover:

Brand new Alien laptop 18 inch i9 24 core Nvidia 4080 and crash crash crash crash. If I do make it to 100K then its a crawl......No matter how good your processor and GPU this game defeats it....smh

Yes, the base game is probably okay enough in relation to how it's programmed but the integration with mods is a catastrophe which I thought was the aim to fix with this game.
And many think there are too many negative comments, but as you indicate, regardless of power in your computer, the issues/crashes are sooo random, over a year has passed, there aren't any real alternatives and there are so many things from the modding community CSI they have just been arrogant about so I understand the frustration out there. And it's not about wanting this game to fail, it's the opposite, I enjoy this game when it works with mods, but playing the base game for us that are more interested in designing a city is not an alternative . It's simply too boring placing the same school, same police station etc over and over again especially considering the simulation is not very good either.

From what i understand (a lot of) the recent crashes are related to either the creator packs and / or DLC.... a lot of us crashing are on vanilla or only running the official packs.. Didn't crash before, crashing constantly ever since...

The game turning slower and slower with bigger cities of course does relate to the power of the computer, i could play OK until reaching around 300-350k citizens, then it's the same "unplayable" thing (before the update, now it's constantly crashing even with less than 5k citizens)..
I'd claim if that part was programmed / working as intended, console players would've joined us on this "ride" already...

[jjumisko]

Same. Without warning, have sent two bug reports with zero reply from Paradox. I'm done bug reporting. They are so unresponsive. I'm not going to play the game without mods. It's not that much fun. When you spend hours building out neighborhoods and detailing them, then the game crashes for no apparent reason, it gets more than frustrating. I constantly need to take breaks from playing CS2 because of this problem. I just get fed up and go play another game. I will never buy DLC for this game until it can be played without crashes.

[DrWonderbaum]

I've spent nearly two of my vacation days on this and gotten nowhere. I was able to get it working (kinda) for a brief time and then it ♥♥♥♥ the bed again. What is self-evident at this point as that they pushed these region packs and DLCs out the door with minimal QA testing/control and then took yet another vacation. Even when the thing was working, it was throwing errors all over the place. Files were corrupting. These people are a joke. They have no good will left from me.

[MTXXTCY]

Well I have found something that has worked. (or at least put a band-aid on the issue at hand) not a fix, BUT, I have noticed that saving the game MANUALLY every 5-15 minutes, postpones the crashing, yesterday alone I clocked in about 8 hours of continuous playing without a crash. Be known, I am running 150 mods+assets in the game. So I suggest trying to MANUALLY saving your game throughout your game play session. It seems to be consistent I have been able to do this multiple sessions and seems to work. Like I said, continue with what you already did, and keep investigating fixes, but for a work around that seems to have worked for me, try the Manual save trick remember though, every 5-15 minutes you MUST save. I always overwrite my original save file. hope this helps someone. Cheers!