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[Icewolf]

Have you tried to run setup.exe in compability-mode?

[melthas]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(melthas @ Aug 19 2006, 02:38 AM) [snapback]249548[/snapback]</div>

There seems to be no compatibility mode present in Windows 2000.
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I really don't know if Windows 2k has compatibility mode but I didn't see it anywhere. ( yes, I looked in properties tab). I was well able to play it on XP with my laptop, but this 2K is killing me :wallbash:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(laiocfar @ Aug 18 2006, 04:37 AM) [snapback]249378[/snapback]</div>

And what do you want?
Osama crashing a plane in yours tower?
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Nope, but in the "stars requirement" It says, that you get a "Tower Rating" after you have reached 15000 people and the cathedral. I have never got that rating

[Icewolf]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(melthas @ Aug 21 2006, 12:52 PM) [snapback]249885[/snapback]</div>

I really don't know if Windows 2k has compatibility mode but I didn't see it anywhere. ( yes, I looked in properties tab). I was well able to play it on XP with my laptop, but this 2K is killing me :wallbash:
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Sorry, I have no experience with W2K, I only know 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and XP.... I skipped 2000 sort of.

Anyways... Probably you could do some troubleshooting on the web? Or on the Microsoft suppport site? Even Maxis maybe?

hi!
i need some help saving my tower. when i click on "save" or "save as..." nothing happens! so i cant save my tower. everything elese works fine, though.
any ideas? thank you.

[Kyosuke Aoki]

Ok, so I've tried everything in the last 11 pages, and none of it works for me. So far, it works up the when you start a new game, there, it runs for about 1 hour game time, and locks up, and displays one of those white "An error has occured......" messages with Close and Ignore. Ignore does squat, and close closes Sim Tower and displays the Illegal operation message.

Im Running Windows 98SE v4.10.2222 A on a 533mhz Celeron with 191mb of RAM.

After peeking around the Simtower folder I noticed a program in the folder named "Info.exe", when you open it, it seems to spit out a bunch of system info in a DOS console.

Here's my dump from Info.exe, comments are displayed in bold

System Query & Understanding Information Display (S.Q.U.I.D.) v1.50
By Chris Blackwell @ Maxis 1994 Wow, so old and it can still display stuff like this?!

DOS version 7.10

Total space on current drive is 2147155968 bytes
Available space on current drive is 1148190720 bytes

Primary Display: VGA card : Analog color monitor
Video memory = 256K or more

Mouse driver version: 8.48
Type: PS/2 mouse
Mouse interrupt: 0


This processor contains a FPU
This processor supports the Machine Check Exception
This processor supports the CMPXCHG8B instruction

BIOS also reports: Math Co-Processor present

Press space bar to display memory information

Total Conventional Memory = 636K Bytes
Total Free Memory = 582080 Bytes
Total Extended Memory (CMOS) = 0K Bytes Weird.....Is it supposed to be that?

XMS Version 3.00, Driver Version 3.5f
High Memory is present
Largest available XMS block = 2048Kb
Total Free XMS memory -1Kb Wtf.... Could be the problem with everything

EMS driver not present

DPMI version 0.90 detected
32-bit support detected
This host requires 41 paragraphs of private data
Entry point = FCB8:2F97

No VCPI present

Press space bar to display VESA and BIOS information

The following VESA modes are supported by your video card:
109, 10A, 10B, 10C, 11D, 10E, 100, 127, 128, 101, 110, 111,
112, 102, 103, 113, 114, 115, 105

Total video memory = 1024K



BIOS Data - First 256 bytes
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U@=740000000000000000..~))IBM VGA Compatible BIOS. .......<..
x..Version 02.14 09/28/1999 15:21:01..Video memory: 1 MB
Device Revision: 0.0..DECOMPILATION OR DISASSEMBLY PROHIBITED..
...Copyright © 1999 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved..

----------------------------------------------------------------

end dump
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Thanks in advanced.

[The Fifth Horseman]

EMS/XMS are two ways in which DOS manages larger quantities of RAM... they don't have anything to do with Windows.

Personally, I'd rather bet that some background-running process doesn't like Simtower too much... try disabling every background program before running the game next time.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jan 17 2005, 08:49 PM) [snapback]52340[/snapback]</div>

Small problem here if anyone could help me, I'm up to the 60th floor and if I try to build anything there it ssays that there is no Transport connected, even though I build the sky lobby every 15th floor and have elevators connect to there, and its not like I dont have any elevators I have 3 of them connected to it, and stairs going to the 3 floors closest to the skylobby and it still says No transportation connected hlp :help:
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I am having a very similiar problem, except it's the 5th floor I'm struggling with. I tried to follow the advice given to this guest, by building an elevator on various floors (I tried them all, 1-4) and also have stairs on every floor. So far, no luck. Any advice?

Thanks!

[Icewolf]

You best build your elevators assymetrical. The first two may go up to 15th floor. Then start at least one elevator every skylobby supported by express elevators.

I'd spare the first three or even four floors with elevator connection and leave them with stairs. Otherwise they'll flood your elevators for lunchtime. These guys can walk! >

[EJohnson85]

Hey, is there any way to change the rent for a large block of units, or set them so they are built at a higher rent? It gets real old real fast changing the rent for 1000+ units.
Love the game, thanks for the help!