My game started crashing in year 1989 with a population of 1540 and is now practically unplayable (tried reducing graphics settings but to no avail).

Is there really a population limit? I've heard it on several forum posts where immigration stops at the 1200 cap. This doesn't seem to be the case for me.

Is there a building limit? Whereby after a certain point the game becomes unstable and crashes (depending on processor capacity)? Has anyone had this issue?

Thanks!

Population used to end at 1200 prior to the 1.03 patch (read: in 1.02). The new soft cap is 1500 (it's not strictly enforced and the game will blow it by up to 400 depending on things like mass pregnancy, migration amounts, etc.).

There is a limit to the number of active scaffolds (50), but from memory nothing of buildings themselves.

Crashes will depend on your hardware and software: what are your system specifications, and which version (and service pack) of Windows is this?

Windows 7 Home
Processor: Intel ® Core ™ i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz
RAM 4.00GB
System type: 64-bit operating system
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

A pretty decent machine. My population did go above 1540 before dropping down again due to the death rate. It was working fine until year 1990 when it suddenly crashed. Reloading the most recent autosave results in the same crash a few minutes into the game, even after reducing graphics settings.

Have you ever managed to surpass 1500 pop considerably? It a shame that my game is unplayable now as I still have ambitious (evil) plans for my city, after all I'm El Presidente and I want my city back ... gahh ...

Thanks again.

Yeah ... I think my records are pretty ... public. Without patching, I've (recently) broken 2,200 through mass-hiring and timing tricks, with patching I've broken 17,000 with stability (but high latency).

There's a lot to be said.

Anyway, that should be handling it fine. Your crashlog will be in %APPDATA%\Tropico 4\crashes. The latest .crash file should help you in pointing things out, otherwise if you can post its contents here in code tags (#/[code]).

(18-12-2011 09:00 AM)Swixel Wrote:  Yeah ... I think my records are pretty ... public. Without patching, I've (recently) broken 2,200 through mass-hiring and timing tricks, with patching I've broken 17,000 with stability (but high latency).

There's a lot to be said.

Anyway, that should be handling it fine. Your crashlog will be in %APPDATA%\Tropico 4\crashes. The latest .crash file should help you in pointing things out, otherwise if you can post its contents here in code tags (#/[code]).

Whoa! How did you get to 17,000 population? Mass hirings? That must have cost a lot of money.

I couldn't find the crash log %APPDATA%\Tropico 4\crashes . I couldn't even find my saved games. I'm kind of a noob can you tell me where they are? Cheers.

No, there's a mod I wrote and released which removes the population limit.

If you use Start -> run (or Windows Key + R), type in %APPDATA%\Tropico 4\crashes

Otherwise open any folder and paste it into the address bar. It's a hidden folder normally.