Network Addon Mod (NAM) - Cross-Platform 49 (rev1)

If I may be so bold, people are complaining about the load times, while I'm not dealing with 5 mintues or more, remember the first time you boot the game takes longer but boots way faster after a CTD, then after you load the first city tile, switching and loading another should take about half the time. Anyways, one thing I think everyone is failing to realize, it might take twice as long to load the game, but I can build way faster, I built a cool city of 60,000 people the other day in like 6 hours all together. Just with the draggable curves, I dont have to prep, lay, cut, put in curves, then fillers around the curves. I prep, but also get the pattern down too, drag the road, it curves as I drag and the new draggable curves conform to sidewalk mods beautifully (They just need a draggable short 90 degree and they have them all! Yeah!) They've redeveloped the speed of access, and basic functionality. Project Symphony rings true with how everything is blending and cities are becoming alive, and not chopped up by contrasting textures, looking like Frankenstien's Monster, bwahahaha!! This is good high quality, and very noble! work. I'm having CTD's during saves, and almost every exit to region, but I just can't let go of this new NAM. It's too smooth and fun!! Great job guys!! 110%, 3 thumbs up, 6/5 stars...

Thank you very much...

There are many new features and updates that I love; however, it takes a very long time for any of my cities to load and I find the new system of turning lanes unusable and annoying. Is there anyway to revert back to the default turning lanes for the older NAM versions? 

Brilliant, I re-install SC4 for the first time in over two years and pop on here to see whats new (if anything), discover there is a new game (not ready, yes I have read all about it) and even better this place is still as good as ever and with a new version of NAM....ya dancer!

I have been playing sc4 since it came out in 03' and just like a crack addict i can't seem to put down the "pipe" forever. It's nice to see that simtropolis is still up and running as it has been for so long now :) This game would never be the same without the NAM.

Since i upgraded from  NAM v30 to 31 my load times for empty cities changed from reasonable 30s - 60s to 5min and more, the game slowed down considerably  and i get a awful lot CTDs & BSoDs.

So I'm going back to v30.

 

 

JFYI:

I'm running SC4 Deluxe v640 on WinXP SP3, currently without any other Mods installed.

it takes too long to load a city

me too

After I've installed this version of NAM, building single track rail and NWM roads bring the game to a temporary freeze for several minutes. Did anyone encountered such a problem?

Awesome mod, trying it out for the first time in 2013.

Installation error, fail to copy and extract files. Any help? I have not installed this mod before, which means it is a fresh installation.

Epic mod! I'm suprised that it even got uploaded to the file extange due to the <200MB size

I have been playing sc4 since it came out in 03' and just like a crack addict i can't seem to put down the "pipe" forever. It's nice to see that simtropolis is still up and running as it has been for so long now :) This game would never be the same without the NAM.

what he said.. the NAM is the reason i'm always coming back to this game ever now and then :)

I have an annoying little problem with a texture. The sides of my Elevated Rail and Monorail tracks have these bright alternating color patterns, as if there were giant rope lights strung along the sides. It looks like something that might result from lacking some texture...any idea what the cause might be and how to fix it?

 

Ya, me too have this problem.

I was in the mood to play Simcity 4 deluxe once again. I installed the game and patched it with the latest patch. Game worked fine. When I install the NAM mod the game will start, however; opening a city freezes the game. Not sure what the issue could be.

Where did the hole diggers go??

Other than not being able to find them the latest update is AWESOME

Regarding the red-and-green squares on the El-Rail--just deselect the Alternate El-Rail set or install the "Cool Blue" texture set if you are intending to use that feature.

As far as crashing/CTD reports go, it's because the RUL2 file in the controller expanded to 2.12 million lines of code--a lot of systems have difficulty running that.  We're shrinking it down for NAM 31.1.

I lost my left hand turn lanes and arrows.  Did I miss a box to turn that on?

How to delete it? 

I've installed it and game freezes while loading city.

Having issues with the new version. Takes cities too long to load. After loading, the scrolling on the game is very slow, about 3-5 minutes later crashes to desktop, without having a chance to build anything. Just simply moving the mouse ctd. I can't find the older version to download either. It's ruining my playing experience.

I lost my left hand turn lanes and arrows.  Did I miss a box to turn that on?

 

Are you referring to turn lanes on Road x Road intersections?  If so, they aren't constructed automatically anymore--that functionality was getting in the way of the new Fractional Angle Roads and the Network Widening Mod.  Plop a Rail tile directly over the intersection where you want turn lanes--it'll convert.

 

 

How to delete it? 

I've installed it and game freezes while loading city.

 

Just run the uninstaller.

 

 

Having issues with the new version. Takes cities too long to load. After loading, the scrolling on the game is very slow, about 3-5 minutes later crashes to desktop, without having a chance to build anything. Just simply moving the mouse ctd. I can't find the older version to download either. It's ruining my playing experience.

 

We are aware of this issue.  Your computer sounds as if it is unable to handle the Controller in NAM 31 (Intel Core i7 Sandy Bridge systems seem to have the most difficulty).  We generally discontinue old versions immediately after updates, but we've left NAM 30 up for the time being at ModDB.  The NAM 31.1 release will shrink the controller, which should minimize the potential for crashing.

 

Please note that we will not be providing any technical support to NAM 30 (or earlier) users.

How do you access the NWM puzzle pieces nowadays?

How do you access the NWM puzzle pieces nowadays?

The High Speed Rail System does not work, there are no trains departing nor leaving and on top of this, when going into vehicle driving mode, trains dissapear as they enter/leave the station and sometimes freezes the game. Please fix this issue. so far 6/10.

how comes its not giving me the option of Left hand drive? im new to this and have just installed SimCity 4. thatnks

The High Speed Rail System does not work, there are no trains departing nor leaving and on top of this, when going into vehicle driving mode, trains dissapear as they enter/leave the station and sometimes freezes the game. Please fix this issue. so far 6/10.

I've just tested it, and I cannot replicate your issues.  As far as trains departing/leaving, you need to have a certain amount of traffic (usually >200 passengers regularly on a given stretch) before you really see many train automata.

 

 

how comes its not giving me the option of Left hand drive? im new to this and have just installed SimCity 4. thatnks

 

The NAM does not change drive side, and the installer will select the appropriate files for whatever drive side your game uses.  In the past, you had the option of installing support for LHD versions of the game, though this did not change the drive side of the game, to some users' confusion.

 

To change drive sides, you need to edit the registry.