Help! My computer crashes with the blue screen when I launch SCS

[cityboi]

I went out yesterday and bought Sim City Societies and installed it. Every time I try to launch the game I get the blue screen of death and then my computer restarts. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I have an Acer Aspire 3680 laptop with Vista operating system. I just got the computer November of 2007. I have 10 gigs of space left on my hard drive. Also I did check my event log and it said "The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service can not be started, either because it is disabled or because it hs no enabled devices associated with it" I have no idea what this has to do with starting up Sim City Societies

[Black_Barook]

If it makes you feel any better the game is buggy as hell. Try posting your problem at http://www.simtropolis.com/

[cityboi]

Originally Posted by Black_Barook

If it makes you feel any better the game is buggy as hell. Try posting your problem at http://www.simtropolis.com/

thanks. I posted there too and so far no response.

[Filip]

If it also makes you feel any better.. it's crap.

Maybe your computer just knows better

[Xusein]

I have heard that SimCity Societies is a very buggy game that crashes a lot.

Sadly, I can't help you because I refuse to buy the game.

[cityboi]

so I guess I wasted 30 bucks

[cityboi]

SIM CITY SOCIETIES NOW PLAYS! I updated my video drivers! I was begining to regret ever getting the game. Its very cool. I like how you can actually put your own buildings down instead of the zoning. I do wish I could zoom out more though.

[LoKeY]

Glad u find it cool.. at least one of us. LoL btw make sure u get all 3, that's right - 3 patches and updates

[mwacuk]

Hi I have exactly the same system as you but have this problem with SC4 and SCS, how exactly did you update your video drivers?

many thanks
marc