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I have bulldozed these buildings 100 times and no luck. What to do? I tried de-zoning as well.

Hi yall

I have spent a painstaking collective 15 hours trying to figure this shit out and I want to scream from the mountains about how I hate computers.

My partner loved this game as a child and I had it in my steam account. They played for a few hours and tried to pick up their save the next day. But for some reason the game crashed immediately on load. It would get 2 seconds into the loading screen and exit completely to desktop. I’m running an Nvidia 2060S on a computer like 4 years old.

I tried everything, from upgrading to windows 11 and even updating my bios. On every crash post obv there is linked the required fixes in the SC4 guide. It worked! And my partner was able to play. The next time they loaded the game, however, the same problem was back where it immediately crashed on load. I tried reinstalling all the .dll files and trying every iteration under the sun of dgvoodoo and tearing my hair out. But none of the settings changed!! So what was different this time? I thought maybe because there was a new Nvidia graphics driver out (from literally yesterday) that maybe something changed but I didn’t think there would be anything -that- significant.

After trying and failing for the past 2 days, I finally figured out that I didn’t have my bluetooth speaker turned on and processing audio. I don’t have any other speakers for my computer, so I am assuming there was some sort of leak and causing an app crash since it doesn’t know what to do with no audio output. So every time the game loaded with no audio output it would immediately crash. This is why the game crashed initially too, so I didn’t need to spend so much time downloading and trying to change every setting in the .dll files 😭 So make sure you have some type of audio output!

I hate computers so much.

Apologies for a beginner question. I’m using a MacBook Pro here but I can’t seem to be able to rotate the high speed rail track. I tried pressing control and click and it doesn’t seems to work. Thank you.

Hi there I’m using a Simcity4 from Steam with NAM installed. I’m using MacBook Pro M1Max with the Sonoma 14.6.1 Is there anyway to minimised this? Many thanks

I'm asking to see if there's a SimCity 4 guide on running the game in 2024. Besides using the 4 GB Patch, what else should I do?

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As you can see, I've changed colour from brown-yellow to red, roofs are gonna be dark grey and there will be some white highlights on the red walls, most likely in shape of window sills. And you can also see, that I've completly redone the ground floor from "krioworks usual" to something new, next to every shop is an entrance to the residental floors. Also the whole shape of the building went from big boxy to two towers with lower part to make it slimmer and more realistic.

And I prob add some small balconies to backsides to break the monotomy of having rows of windows. And yeah, this will be a diagonal corner. Next diagonals will be "straight" pieces, as this is fifth? corner model from this year.

Title. I can't find some of the French ones

I'm just strting with simcity 4. I try to oursource power generation to a neighbour city so I can get rid of the coal plants. I played the new neighbour city a while and it has about 10k MWh spare that I trade to the maincity. When I switched there, I could see the deal of 10k MWh as well and the power graph raiedd "capazity" way above used power. So the power "is there". But when I razed one of my coal plants (I still have 2-3 other plants in that city), there are power outages jumping through the city. It's several spots over the map without power for a second, then it jumps to other blocks while the ones, that showed no power, then have power. It's jumping like this the whole time, alsways about 25% of the city are out of power, but every second it is another spot.

In the graph, I can clearly see that capazity is about 18k while consumption is only beyond 12k, so even without that razed coal plant there is a lot of over capacity.

Is the power from nieghbour cities so unreliable or is it not possible to mix neighbour power and owen power?

Edit: Ok, so the issue was, that my outside connection was not conencted at all. So the overall power of the city in the graph shows lot of extra power but the power plants that are connected are just slightly not enough.

This is a major update that fixes the Build all styles at once feature to work as Maxis intended, and adds support for using building styles in the 4 industrial building categories.

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/36112-allow-more-building-styles-dll-plugin/

Building style support for the 4 industrial building categories are controlled by 4 INI file entries that should be placed in the style mod DAT files. See the industrial-building-styles documentation on GitHub for a template file and the format details.

When building styles are disabled for an industrial building category, that building category will behave as if it is compatible with all active building styles. This is the game's built-in behavior for the industrial building categories. If building styles enabled for an industrial building category, it will act as a blocker on industrial development for that building category unless there is a pool of buildings that are compatible with the active styles.

Does anyone know what the original 'Darknight' mod file was called or where I can find it? I've searched online but only similar mods seems to show like "SimFox Day and Nite" etc. The reason why I'm asking is because I just realised after several years I have a plugin folder full of both Maxis night and Dark night BATs! And I won't need both, but I was worried about breaking my game as normally, if I add or remove a mod it seems to cause some type of issue. I want to be sure I don't have dark night, I searched my files but I know sometimes the file can have an odd name. e.g. I found one called "Dark.bat" I have no idea what that even is lol

...doesn't seem to work. I had all these blocks of terraced houses uniform and historical (I double checked that each building had been made so). I go off and work on another part of the city, and come back to find other stuff has grown over some of the terraces. When queried, this too has been marked historical (provided its on the same lot size). Is this a glitch? Am I doing something wrong? It's annoying as hell having to try and get the same buildings to regrow.

Comparing the price of hydrogen to coal power its clear hydrogen is just financially bad. 5MWh/$ for hydrogen compared to 24MWh/$ from coal makes me wonder if it's ever worth it outside having a city that has reached its size limit and you want to keep air pollution down in the area. Seems worthless especially considering hydrogen is supposed to be the "fusion" power for this game, but IRL fusion power promises power at far cheaper prices than any existing source once its up and running. Hell all the power plant options have confusing power:cost ratios

• Windmill - 4MWh/$
• Natural Gas - 7.5MWh/$
• Coal - 24MWh/$
• Oil - 11.666....MWh/$
• Solar - 5MWh/$
• Nuclear - 5.333....MWh/$
• Hydrogen - 5MWh/$

Seems clear that there's really only two options: coal if you're money focused or have extra space, hydrogen if you have money to burn and no space to work with. Even then it seems insane how its no better than solar at powering a city and its somehow worse than nuclear, which IRL is the cheapest power source after the plant itself has been built. I don't think the devs did much research into how expensive these power plants really are.

I tried installing the base game with Rush Hour expansion but it looked like crap on a big monitor. I later used some ultrawidescreen tool to force a modern resolution, but it broke the game to where it wouldn’t even launch without crashing.

Any idea of how to get this game working and looking good on an ultrawide monitor/modern hardware?

I tried installing the base game with Rush Hour expansion but it looked like crap on a big monitor. I later used some ultrawidescreen tool to force a modern resolution, but it broke the game to where it wouldn’t even launch without crashing.

Any idea of how to get this game working and looking good on an ultrawide monitor/modern hardware?

I have been playing this game for years. With all the applicable fixes that I know to run the game on the EA app, nothing is working! Its been a month. 😪 Any help?

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This was a bug in the building style portion of the game's growable algorithm, after patching the affected code it now works as Maxis intended. This fix will be included in the next version of the More Building Styles DLL.

The growable algorithm code checks building styles for both lots and buildings, but the building portion of the code only supported the Change styles every N years mode. The growable code is unsurprisingly doing quite a bit of work. A 22 second run with my logging code produces a log file of over 15,000 lines. A lot of that chattiness appears to be the lot selection portion, the game presumably checks the building styles to eliminate lots whose buildings are not part of the active styles from consideration.

I should also now have full control over the building styles portion of the game's growable selection algorithm, which may enable some interesting possibilities like expanding the building styles to include the industrial categories.

From a beginner here with no technical skills. Last time I played simcity was the 3000 version. Just wondering if it is still advisable to install NAM on the mac version or should I give it a miss since it is too buggy etc? If it still worth installing NAM, is there a link to the latest file and a youtube video or links that have an instruction? Thank you!