sim city 3000 freezes

[tau73]

i have recently purchased and installed sim city 3000 unlimited on my P4 2g windows XP computer. I can load the game fine but when i get to the menu it flickers (this is not the main problem) i can still access options ect but within a few seconds the options stop flickering and the game freezes not allowing me to do anything including shutting down the program. Please help me because i am at a loss. by the way i have downloaded and installed all new drivers for my TNT2 video card

[Luke7k]

what are your system specs?

[tau73]

intel pentium 4
2.0 gightz
256 mb ddr ram
Nvidia TNT2 32mb
about 15 gigs of space left on hard drive
8Xcd rom and Direct X 9.0
I was pretty sure that my machine should run the specifications because all that is necersary is a
166mhz pentium, 4Xcd rom, Direct X, 2mb video card, windows 95, 32mb ram and 450mb hard drive space
but thank you very much for even looking at my post (first time for me) :)

[essexman]

do u have a SIS chipset?? cause i know you need a patch to sort that problem out. i also have this game it is one hell of a memory eater. only other thing i can suggest is that you put all the video settings on low. you wait till you get a kick arse city. you can see ur pc turning red from all the work it is having to do.