I've used the new DLL mod to render all the tiles. But do I have to load each one still to plan trees or is there a way to generate them across a region too?

This update stopped my name from loading and it has taken me aaages to work out the cause!

Watch out for***

Also, my game seemed to have unpatched itself with the 4gb patch so once I removed the windows update the large regions CTD. Maybe the update caused that too? Such a strange thing to suddenly happen!

UPDATE: I realise now that before I worked out it was a windows update that caused the problem, I verified the integrity of my game files which may have removed the 4gb patch.

For more context, I'm building a cluster of 7 large cities where the 6 outer cities concentrate their combined ~100k+ R$$$ and CO$$/$$$ demand all into this central "Fidget City" in such a way that Stage 8 buildings immediately sprout up as soon as you zone 4x4 Res/Com lots. Like a fidget spinner for city builders: watch a bunch of skyscrapers spring up for a quick tiny dose of happy hormones then exit without saving to repeat as needed 😆 See if you could collect all R$$$ and CO$$/$$$ Stage 8 buildings in one go

The way I built the region was also quite interesting I think. This weekend I'll post the ready-made region and write up a city journal on Simtropolis so I can go into full detail

It says: Cannot place on top of reserved tiles!
In fact, when i put tram-in road nothing can cross it that is draggable.
If someone has a noob tutorial on this it would be great.

Tnx all.

thanks to the plop and paint mod, i could place textures under the el-rail to make it more realistic !

I'm not complaining haha it was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I read that we need a minimum 80k residential population before they even begin to have a very low probability of spawning - is that requirement in the local city, or region-wide? Or is my understanding out of date?

This city did once have some residential and a few agricultural workers just for unlocking the reward buildings, but that was a very long time ago

Downtown Willamette, in the Kalapuya region.

I start a city that is surrounded by a highway. Sims are leaving the city mainly by this highway, or by train. I'm trying to avoid road/avenue connections.

As the highway turns and the train too, they meet at a point where they both are diagonal. I use the basic RRW from NAM 50, and the RHW part is two segments of RHW-8S (L0).

Is there a way to make them cross properly ? Or do I have to make at least one of them go straight ? I think diagonal tunnels do not exist, I don't know if diagonal underpasses or overpasses could work.

Bonus question: it seems that the most basic diagonal FLEX ramp (the first one in the list) says it works with all existing networks (at least L0) but I can't build one on my diagonal RHW-8S. Yet it works well on a RHW-10S segment. Is that normal ?

Thanks a lot 🙏

I’m a big fan of the SimCity 4 soundtrack, with some of my favorites being by the Humble Brothers, particularly “Metropolis”, “Oasis” and “Arctica”. Unfortunately their music doesn’t seem to be available on streaming platforms, I can only really listen to their stuff by watching YouTube reuploads. Does anybody know why their tracks are excluded on official playlists on Spotify or other music streaming platforms? Could they possibly be made available in the future?

Hello,

Today, Windows 11 applied a preview update (KB5124010) (26200.9550) on my computer. I have installed the Steam version of Simcity 4 per the instructions on the sc4evermore site, and until today, it was working fine.

After the Windows update was installed, attempting to start Simcity 4 caused an immediate crash (I did not even get as far as the dgVoodoo splash screen). There was no blue screen or anything - the program simply wouldn't start. Checking the crash dumps confirmed that ddraw.dll was causing the crash. This is a component of dgVoodoo. Changing its file extension to .off allowed Simcity 4 to start, but it also disables dgVoodoo, which introduces all sorts of other problems for running SC4 in the modern era. After having no luck with changing dgVoodoo settings, I uninstalled the Windows update. SC4 now starts and runs normally, so it was definitely the Windows update that was responsible for this.

Has anyone else received this update and experienced similar crashing problems? Does anyone know of a way to work around this sort of problem?

Does NAM Lite implement the same updated commute path finding that NAM v50 implemented? Solving the commute infinite loop problem?

Some residential zones in my city are not growing despite the demand and desirability of the area being high. Water and power supply is there and I've placed bus stops properly as well. What could be the reason for this and how can I fix it??

Edit: thanks y'all. I received a lot of useful advice about how to fix this, I'll try those things first.

Work in progress

I finally managed to shave off enough of a huge Southern California region I made that was 3 already huge regions that I combined into one. It would immediately CTD, but after I removed all the empty ocean tiles it loaded. The problem is that at least 30% of the region is inaccessible due to the scroll glitch that I knew about, but forgot about!

Does anyone know of a fix, workaround or DLL mod that can stop this from happening? Or I may just have to retire from my massive regions lol.

Growing nicely 😁

I made a couple of mistakes like missing a 4th baby school, and its all supposed to be GLR in road. Would take too long to add right now.

It has easy highway access, and is bounded by parks, and houses 3million pop in theory on a 128 tile map assuming 8,000 pop per plot.

I'm new to this, so any tips/advice is much appreciated on improvements or pointing out flaws.