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Cities XXL Short game play then freeze/crash

Discussion in 'Game Play Support' started by brendonwright1989, Dec 20, 2018.

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  1. brendonwright1989

    brendonwright1989 Elite

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    Hi All.

    Just putting it out there. I have managed to keep a city working for nearly 2 years to the day and the whole map is nearly entirely filled. I have had obvious issues over time but I have worked around them. For example, at one point the game would stop working on auto save, so I have gone around that by not allowing it to auto save using a mod & it has been fine.

    I recently had a graphics card glitch and had a new, better graphics card installed. I am not able to provide specifics but basically the computer screen turned off and now its working and all is good. blah blah.

    The new/latest problem is that I'll be playing the game, about 20 minutes or so, and then the buildings and cars will go blurry and cars become grey boxes. While I have had this before, usually it corrects itself or its a mod that I have installed and I'll delete it. This time though nothing has changed and it will provide me with a short play time then either freeze/crash, or I'll attempt to save and it will freeze/crash.

    I am coming to grips with the fact that the city may just have reached some sort of capacity, but I have even gone back a few manual save points to when it was working 100% and it does the same thing.

    Does anyone know something around this? I would have to say goodbye to 2 years work when I'm oh so so close to finishing up the city, my only other option would be to take as many screen shots as I can while I can still use the game but 20 minutes does not allow it to load up enough details for decent shots (trees, etc).

    So hopefully there's something we can do! PLEASE HELP.
     
  2. skullz613

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    I have had the same issue in the past but only with a fraction of the map filled. A restart of XXL resolved it. Not sure what causes it.
    I do however adjust the globalconfig file to load everything at the start which helps with gameplay and getting those screenshots before problems start.
     
  3. brendonwright1989

    brendonwright1989 Elite

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    Hi Skullz how do I restart XXL or will I lose everything? How do I adjust the globalconfig
     
  4. skullz613

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    If the graphics play up I save and close the game.
    The graphics glitching won't affect saving.
    Even closing without manually saving will still save so should be fine.

    Globalconfig (Cities XXL/Data/Config/)

    Open it with notepad and scroll down to <visibilityEnabled>2</visibilityEnabled>

    Change the 2 into a zero

    This will pre render all objects

    Also change the 1 to zero in
    <ProcessEnabled>1</ProcessEnabled>

    Save it and close.

    This also helps with pre rendering everything.
    You will notice the difference once your city loads. Might take a minute while everything is rendered.

    I
     
  5. Project_Oz

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    Works? my solution was to pause the game, build 5 - 10 building, resume, wait for building to rise then pause and save. After 10 min i just save and quit, delete file in shadercache folder and start the game. Use 2 or 3 save file in case the last save is broken and never overwrite the last working save file. If the buildings become blurry don't bother to save, just quit and start again the game.
     
  6. brendonwright1989

    brendonwright1989 Elite

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    I might try this, sounds tedius but hey, at the end of the day I might be able to finish up a few bits and pieces, my only concern is taking screen shots after about 10-15 minutes it will crash its never enough time to load up the small details like trees etc which is the whole point. I'll give it a go though I might be able to get a bit more done this way thank you.
     
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