Sim City 4 Crash Help

i've tried looking around for stuff on this and not much has come up. I've tried to become a more dedicated Sim City 4 player and my game keeps crashing. I bought the Deluxe Edition (which contains both Sim City 4 and Rush Hour in one installation, rather than separate installations). My computer is a Dell Dimension 521 with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ running at 2.3 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, and uses Windows Vista (I'm beginning to think that this may be the problem but I want to hear others' opinions on it). I got thisPC back in the summer of2007 so its not archaic in terms of technology needed to run this game. all of my other games run just fine and I really only have four games installedthat I play on this. The game doesn't always crash on me with smalltownsbut it crashesalmost everytimewhen my cities and townsget bigger. I have come across these 'Exception Reports' and it shows all of the times it crashed. I don't know whats causing this and its frustrating me. I try to save often but I shouldn't have to be playing this game while being completely paranoid and its very frustrating when i get far. I've also downloaded their patches and it still hasn't worked. any suggestions or ideas?

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Much of the CTD problem seems to have to do with dual and multicore processors. I've experienced this sort of thing as well. Applying these fixes have at least reduced the frequency of CTD's, so it's worth a look.

Wierd.. I own the same set as you for Simcity4 and never had a CTD on it.

You sure you have the latest driver updates? I use it on Windows XP and it runs flawless. I know I had some issues with Vista when it first came out so I went back to XP, donno if Vista is the issue, but its possible.

Ill try searching for some info about this and if I find some Ill post it.