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SC4Fix: Third-party patches for SC4  1.0.7

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About This File

What does this do?

  • Fixes a serialization bug that could corrupt the savegame, particularly when mods are installed that modify existing exemplars (i.e. Prop Pox).
  • Resolves a crash-to-desktop when hovering NAM puzzle pieces over transit-enabled lots.
  • Allows other DLLs to load into SC4's memory without a GZCOM framework.

Requirements
This fix is made for versions 640 and 641 of SimCity 4 on Windows. Version 640 is a fully-patched SC4 retail copy, and version 641 is a fully-patched digital distribution version (i.e. Steam, Origin, GOG). Although v641 is supported, it has only been officially tested on Steam.

Installation
Unzip to Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins.

To see if SC4Fix is working properly, check the title of your game window. If you are playing in fullscreen mode, alt-tab out and hover over the SimCity taskbar icon. The titlebar will show "SC4Fix (version #)" if loaded properly.

Repairing cities already affected by Prop Pox
Thanks to kingofsimcity for these instructions:

  1. In the region view, open the graphics settings and change City Detail to Low.
  2. Close and relaunch SC4.
  3. Open the offending city tile and save immediately.
  4. Exit to region without saving and change City Detail back to High.
  5. Close and relaunch SC4.
  6. Open the offending city tile and save again.

Demonstration
Click here for a video showing the ability to hover puzzle pieces over transit-enabled lots with this DLL.

Development Thread and Source Code
Development Thread
Source Code

What's New 1.0.7


Released

Added a fix for prop pox and similar savegame corruption issues, as discussed in this thread.

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CorinaMarie
3 hours ago, ironjaw said:

Anyone able to confirm if this is needed for Mac OS?

It is needed to prevent crashes when hovering a puzzle piece over a transit enabled lot, but this DLL is for Windoze only.

(There used to be a Mac version which was installed via a Mac Injector, but that is no longer possible with the updates Apple has made to the OS.)

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ironjaw
6 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

It is needed to prevent crashes when hovering a puzzle piece over a transit enabled lot, but this DLL is for Windoze only.

(There used to be a Mac version which was installed via a Mac Injector, but that is no longer possible with the updates Apple has made to the OS.)

Yup, bootcamp it is then. 

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Sumi

Borderless Fullscreen doesn't work well with this mod due to the window dialog it introduces, I don't know if there is a way to fix this.

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TheMurderousCricket
17 minutes ago, Sumi said:

Borderless Fullscreen doesn't work well with this mod due to the window dialog it introduces, I don't know if there is a way to fix this.

You simply need to rerun the game. On the second launch the title bar should disappear.

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Sumi
24 minutes ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

You simply need to rerun the game. On the second launch the title bar should disappear.


No it doesn't, I'm on Windows 11 btw.

 

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Valdus
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Click here for a video showing the ability to hover puzzle pieces over transit-enabled lots with this DLL.

From the description .. video in link is private.

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jj88

Many thanks for this. Got it working with the Steam version of the game.

Could you update the installation instructions to make it clear the DLL file cannot be a subfolder in Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins? This caught me out at first as Windows by default extracts ZIPs to a folder. So I had just dragged the folder into Plugins. File has to be in the root of Plugins cannot be in any subfolder.

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