Comments on: Cities XL: The Urban Demo

By: Stas

Stas — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:49:58 +0000

Try to install the game under VmWare (Virtual mashine) :)

By: Vanjol

Vanjol — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:19:14 +0000

i bought the retail of this game, and it needs the cd key in the registration. without register i cannot play this game. PLEASE someone give me the cd key in here please please please

By: madeinstein

madeinstein — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:56:49 +0000

“It forces me to get a patch
Gives me two choices either… I click Ok then it goes to desktop…
Or click cancel and it goes to desktop.”

Same here.. This game has so much bad publicity that without a demo there is no way I’m going to buy it as noone says that full version is any better than this demo. What is this company ‘Monte Cristo”? Can’t even find a company website.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:51:31 +0000

You know I really wanted to buy this game,
So I get the demo first,
Gives me crap about it not being a readable version or something when it checks for update
I click to launch
It forces me to get a patch
Gives me two choices either… I click Ok then it goes to desktop…
Or click cancel and it goes to desktop.
If it wont let me play the dammed demo don’t think I’m going to buy the game.

By: rn104

rn104 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:42 +0000

Working!!!

It seems that the demo is over: You’re member since September 3rd.
The demo lasts 7 days.
Please create a new account if you want to play the demo!

By: rn104

rn104 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:51:11 +0000

Installed the demo and the updates.
When starting the demo, it goes directly out saying “Hope you have enjoyed this demo, blablabla”

Already uninstalled and reinstalled again…same stuff…

Anyone saw this ?

By: Bob's Uncle

Bob's Uncle — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:11:32 +0000

Win7 x64 users:

It installed fine for me, there was nothing special I needed to do. However, when I tried running the demo from the start menu, I got an error (mentioned in a previous post) & also the registration page I was sent to required a cd key.

Sooo I ran CitiesXL_Game.exe from the installation folder, which did NOT give the same error. Also the registration page it sent me to did NOT require a cd key. Thus at this point I was able to log on & play the game.

No sweat & hope that helps someone else.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:31:43 +0000

Correction – i got it working… here are my steps for the Windows 7 users.

1.) if you have the game installed, pls UNINSTALL IT.
2.) once all the old files and whatnot are out, reinstall the demo exe file but when you do, make sure you RIGHT CLICK and run as administrator.
3.) once installed, go into the install folder and right click the CitiesXL.exe and right click “Run as administrator”
4.) the game will load and run, and let you create your avatar, then it will let you play from there.

im not sure why but i think the uninstalling and reinstall as administrator did the trick. it probably allowed an entry into the windows programs exceptions log or something. i dunno, but after that, it worked fine for me. hope this was of help for everyone.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:09:17 +0000

so heres what i found for Windows 7 users, I got it installed, then went to the folder where its installed to and Right Clicked citiesxl.exe or whatever the exe is for it and “Run as Administrator”. i can get the game to load, takes me to the avatar creation screen.

now my issues is this, when i create it and hit Upload Avatar, it says connecting and whatnot and gives me an error. It then tries again, then says it loses it connection and just sits at the connecting screen doing nothing… if i close the game out, my network is all messed up and cant get online (IE8 or Firefox) at all and i either restart or disable/enable the network and it works agian…. any ideas?

thanks in advance to anyone who can answer. again, keep in mind, im running W7 RC.

By: valber

valber — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:49:40 +0000

For win7 users! Try to install it with Windows XP compatibility. It works!

By: A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:43:07 +0000

I still can’t get this working. I don’t know if it has anything to do with me being on North America, because I understand this was supposed to be a “European” demo, whatever that’s supposed to mean in an online game. Anyway… I’m not impressed so far. The actual game better be good.

By: Luis

Luis — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:39:53 +0000

Hi guys!

Yesterday i downloaded the cities xl demo and after unpacking it showed 2 execute files called CitiesXlDEMO (62,3Mb) and DemoData (936Mb).

I puted both running and some how the game started but i didn’t have my register done so i had to leave the game and went to cities xl site to register.

Until today i never could start the game.

I put both files running, they sort of unpack and install but nothing else occurs.

Please, what do i have to do to play this game demo?

Please, someone can help me?

I have vista 32bits laptop.

Thank you.