Crash on open screen

[Tellos Athenaios]

Could you post your RAM, CPU, and Graphics card specs? Because "clicking on a city for the first time and then it's stuck" sounds like a sort of RAM problem. If it's not, CPU is the most likely culprit, and if that's not it either then your Graphics card may give the CPU & RAM some trouble. (Because it's not being capable of it's job, and therefore your PC has to rely on CPU & RAM helping out.)

[spurs_dan21]

RAM 512MB DDR
Graphics card is GeForce 6200 (or something, dont have box handy)
Intel 4 etc after that.
40GB

Planning to just delete the game for now want to buy a new pc soon will whack it on then.

[bovi]

You are likely to benefit the most from purchasing more memory. Only 512 MB means you will have to swap a lot of memory to disk, and the game will be extremely slow. I think that must be the cause of your problems. But it's strange that you should crash on the opening screen, not all that much is loaded by then.

You could also try to run memtest to check whether your memory is error free. Leave it running during the night. If there are no errors detected in the morning your RAM is okay, but still lacking in size to get decent performance.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yep. Bovi's absolutely right there: even with my 1024 MB of RAM, I experience a slight bit of lag when activating the script.