Vista - Sid Meier's Railroads!

I have this program installed on Vista Ultimate and every 5 minutes or so it
crashes, screen goes black and it reverts back to the desktop.

Anyone have any ideas?

John

John;
Do you have the latest video and sound drivers?
What does the program manufacturer have to say about Windows vista
compatibility?
Is there an update or patch available for the program?
Does you computer meet or preferably exceed all the hardware
requirements for the program?
Do you have other programs such as anti virus running that may
interfere?

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]

I purchased this game over a year ago and couldn't get it to work under
Vista so I emailed Firaxis who said it wasn't designed for Vista which is
why it keeps crashing to the desktop. I had emailed them prior to this and
they suggested I try the different compatabiliy modes but this didn't work.
I guess I have wasted my money getting the game unless I install XP instead
of Vista.
Shawn

Shawn;
See if you can find others that use that program, perhaps someone has
a fix.
If the manufacturer has forums, you may be able to find a solution
there.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]

Yes, I have several, the one at the top of my mind is your video card is
crashing. I'm not sure if Railroads has this option, but try running the
game in Windowed Mode (Check the game options), so when the game crashes
you'll see any pop-up message that may be getting obscured by the game
running full screen.

If Windows says something like Your display adapter stopped working and
Windows has recovered, it could be your video card drivers are crashing
(easy, just update them and that "might" fix it), or your video card is
overheating and crashing which is bad, and could require replacing the video
card, or simply cooling down your system a bit.

If you built the system yourself and are comfortable working inside, check
your system fans, make sure they are clean and spinning nice and fast while
the system is on. As a test you might try getting a small house fan, opening
up your case and pointing the fan at your system while you play, see if the
problem goes away.

If none of this is helping, reply and include your system
specs/make/model/video/audio/etc settings.

-A.

Very bizzard that this simple change cant b done in a patch. I heard else where on the net ppl saying 2k/Fraxis replied to mails that they dont plan to make it compatible with Vista.

Needless to say found this very useful link, that sorted it out for me on Vista x64 with 4Gb of RAM. Vista games optimising - nV News Forums. The deatails posted r for a different game but methodology is the same, so use the railroad.exe file.

Scot,

Can you send the fix to markjshelley@xxxxxx?

Thx,

-M

Email here for more info railroads.fix@hotmail.co.uk

Hi sorry, forgot to say, if you need help sorting the crashes that occur whilst playing this game on vista, email me at railroads.fix@hotmail.co.uk . I'll help you through the problem.It occurs due to a memory allocation problem. Like I said just give me an email and I'll help if I can.

Cheers

delete install
cancel out of auto run
explore cd
right click on setup
click on properties
go to compatability tab
change compatability to xp service pack 2
apply changes and exit
double click setup icon to reinstall
follow same steps w/ the exe. shortcut icon b4 u run

everyone thinks to change the compatability on the exe. icon but not on the setup icon befor installing. that was the key for me. gl