Since writing my review of the recently released Sim City for iPhone I’ve been experiencing a few problems. The worst of these involved the game dumping me back to the home screen every time I tried to enter the in-game menus. Given I needed to change some taxes to stimulate growth, this left me pretty stuck.
If the game wasn’t so damn good I’d have just given up and moved on. But it is good. Very good. So I set about finding a fix.
As it happens I found my fix rather accidentally, while catching up on podcasts. Now I can’t remember which podcast it was (memory like a sieve see) but someone mentioned that when running big applications the iPhone needs to move around a fair bit of data, which got me thinking. Firing up iTunes proved what I suspected: I’d got so many apps installed I’d only got about 500MB of space left. Could it be that this was causing a bottleneck somewhere ?
Much app cutting later I found myself with around 1GB free. Time to test my theory.
I played Sim City in bed for about an hour last night, opening menus all over the place without do much as a stutter. No crashing, no locking up. I’m cured !
Now I also rebooted the iPhone after clearing it out which may well have helped too, but I’ve read if that not fixing the problem for people, so I think that may be a coincidence. To be honest, I just don’t know.
Hopefully this will help some of you, and I’d love to hear how you get on. Now I’ve got a city to build !
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and see i’ve got about 6 gigs free and have never had a crash (knock on wood)
@Wegmans – aye, seems to help for sure. Merry Christmas !
I had about 6-7 gig free, brand new and had been playing sim city for about 3 weeks before I made a new town. When it got to about 50k people, the game started crashing repeatedly, within 30 seconds of loading. I was searching for an answer and I came across something that suggested removing farm zones (low density industrial zones outside the city). I deleted these, and haven’t had a single crash since.
Hope this helps, not sure what the nature of the bug is, but I like ‘not crashing’ more than I like farms.
Interesting. I wonder why that might be a fix. All updated I take it ?
For you Google searchers out there. If you can’t make SimCity for iPhone stop crashing no matter what you do, delete your farms. Problem solved for me. Thanks to the poster above. No thanks to EA, who has completely ignored my support ticket. Not even the courtesy of a reply. Booo Hissss.
@spblat Thanks for the info, hopefully it’ll help others !
removing the farms / low density industrial fixed the crashing problem for me too, don’t know what thats all about but it worked for me so yay