Finding Simcity 4 crashing on you? Got a dual or quad core processor? Then you need ImageCFG!
Basically, SC4 was written before multiple-core CPUs, so most of us had a single core, and possibly hyperthreading. Unfortunately, because of this, SC4 doesn’t handle those extra cores properly and has a tendency to crash in a giggling heap after a while.
The way around it is to use something called ‘processor affinity’ – basically making the program always use a particular core. That way it doesn’t go splitting its tasks up and falling over when things go out of order. The above link tells you how to use it, and it’s fairly easy to do.
I’m pretty sure I blogged this before, but I can’t find it…