Game randomly stops and game windows open with nothing in them

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.play for an amount of time generally once I get to 15,000 citizens
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Game should continue to play (you see cars no longer moving on roads, unpowered 
buildings continue to blink even once they are connected to power grid, and 
time stops. Also Budget window or About window open with just white space.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 1.1 on Windows 7 64 bit.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Nameless...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2013 at 7:14

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Thanks for the report. Sounds like the simulation engine crashed. Does 
Pausing/Unpausing the game resume things? Do you have a save game you can 
share? (Feel free to email it directly to me at jason@long.name if unable to 
post here.)

Original comment by jason@long.name on 15 Mar 2013 at 7:32

• Added labels: Type-Defect, Project-MicropolisJava

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I am on a Mac running latest Java 7 and this happens to me.

At some point the engine crashes, time stops progressing and I cannot bulldoze 
zones.

I can click the speed setting and it will resume for a period of time, but 
continues to stop.

Also, most menu items fail to work once this happens, so save is impossible.

A complete restart and all works again. I have duplicated this every time I 
have played, most recently on V1.1 got to 100K before the game engine crashed.

Original comment by allen.wi...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2013 at 1:10

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Certain arrangements of buildings/roads in your city may be triggering the 
crash, but I'm not sure what it could be. If you could run Micropolis from a 
command-line window, and play until the crash, you should see a Java stack 
trace in the command-line window. If you could copy/paste that into this 
problem report, that would be very helpful.

To run Micropolis from a command-line window:
1. Start a Terminal window.
2. Type cd and then the full path name of the folder containing micropolisj.jar.
3. Type java -jar micropolisj.jar

Original comment by jason@long.name on 17 Mar 2013 at 4:46

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Closing this as wont-fix, since I don't have enough information to resolve 
this. More recent versions of MicropolisJ will pop-up an error dialog box when 
the simulator crashes, which will help diagnose this problem if it happens in 
the future.

Original comment by jason@long.name on 2 Dec 2013 at 12:58

• Changed state: WontFix