SimCopter Error

After buying the Apache with a cheat code, I shot down a plane with the machine gun and a message appeared reading:

"An unrecoverable error has occurred and SimCopter must quit. Do you want to try to save the game?"

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• video
• game
• simcopter
• maxis
• error
• apache
• commanche
• machine
• gun
• helicopter

[BowlingMania14]

I get this problem all the time. Another thing that bugs me is when I'm following an airplane or the UFO out of the city limits into the mountains, they suddenly start going up and down really really fast, then the game crashes.

Those two things are very annoying.

[lotusbandicoot]

@BowlingMania14

Yeah, I have both of those problems. They're so annoying, aren't they?

[mechak332337]

whats the cheat?

[lotusbandicoot]

There... isn't one.

[mechak332337]

yes there is... i found them...

[lotusbandicoot]

Oh.

[theman1178]

lmao play in the city of london, and to get the apache FREE, use the simcity 2000 city-building archive and build 2 or more f-15 fighter plane tarmacs somewhere together in the city, then fly, and one will have the apache randomly parked. Also London is the only city I know of with no glitches and "error messages" so mess with it all you'd like

[mrbeef911]

you are correct. on a modern day computers the game simply will crash no matter what. also, the rate in which missions appear is dramatically increased.

you can use a cpu downgrader (i use cpugrabber) to get it very close to the original game speed and you won't crash anymore.

[SonicPro96]

This game plays fine for me on Windows XP most of the time, but I get that message at random quite a bit, but for an old game it's still fun!

[intrigid]

@lotusbandicoot It's because the game wasn't designed for how powerful your computer is. You need to effectively "underclock" your CPU to make these issues go away. One way is to download cpugrab.exe, run it, set the slider to a certain percentage (80% is high enough on my athlon 3.1 GHz dual core) and start. You have to run an insance per each core, which means I have to run 2 cpugrab.exe at the same time. This causes a lot of CPU consumption but at least you cam play SimCopter.

[Drift91King]

Whatever you do don't install the patch to upgrade to the latest version. The latest version is actually far more glitchy than the previous version.

Like so everyone can see this.

[rolandtran10]

where do u go for the cheats

[rolandtran10]

how do u fix that bug

[BowlingMania14]

@lotusbandicoot Yes they are.. (sorry for the late reply) I think the cause of the error has something to do with the way the game works. It knows that fire isn't supposed to start in water, but it did in this case, and crashed the game. Not sure exactly how it works LOL

[WonderN123]

I get this on my Windows 98 when I sink a boat...

[BowlingMania14]

@lotusbandicoot Oh I hate when that happens. I put on the "superpowermultiply" cheat and speed away quickly when the UFO or Plane starts acting up.

I think the cause of that has to be the speed of the computer the game is running on. I think Simcopter is meant to run at a slower rate, but installing it on a modern computer, speeds up the gameplay, and causes errors.

I installed the game on my windows 7 laptop, and all the Plane and UFO does is bounces up and down uncontrollably LOL