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pinned Crashes and Problems - Look Here First
By CorinaMarie, June 12, 2017
- simcity 4
- index & links
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  ctd
- 11 Replies
- 12,649 Views
- CorinaMarie
- June 13, 2017
Need help with sc4pac
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By NeveroddoreveN, June 27
- sc4pac
- 36 Replies
- 647 Views
- CorinaMarie
- 9 hours ago
City load crashes
By MstrFox1982, June 29
- mod
- cleaner
- (and 2 more)
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  cleaner
  
  bug
  
  sim city 4
- 3 Replies
- 97 Views
- Propfam
- Yesterday at 02:55 AM
New residentials first finding jobs... but then not!
By justforfun, Monday at 11:12 PM
- destination finder
- no-job zots
- 0 Replies
- 31 Views
- justforfun
- Monday at 11:12 PM
Waste-to-energy plants and their capacities
By Tommy Vercetti, Sunday at 02:24 PM
- garbage
- wte
- (and 1 more)
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  wte
  
  bug
- 9 Replies
- 141 Views
- Ulisse Wolf
- Monday at 11:04 PM
Missing textures on commercial buildings
By ert90, June 27
- texture
- prop
- 1 Reply
- 70 Views
- CaptCity
- July 8
No Road Access zot [solved]
By jorsa, July 4
- NAM
- owr-5
- (and 1 more)
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  NAM
  
  owr-5
  
  zot
- 3 Replies
- 77 Views
- jorsa
- July 4
Crash when dragging
By Skieriver, June 27
- crash
- ctd
- (and 1 more)
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  ctd
  
  drag
- 1 Reply
- 98 Views
- rsc204
- July 3
Tunnel entrance and highway exit texture bugs
By Vanz, February 17
- tunnel
- entrance
- (and 3 more)
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  entrance
  
  highwayexit
  
  slopemod
  
  namoverrides
- 18 Replies
- 338 Views
- rsc204
- July 3
Colorful Airplanes
By SimCity tony, June 16
- airplane
- aircraft
- 2 Replies
- 161 Views
- SimCity tony
- June 17
CTD after new city is loaded
By cpt.sparrow, June 8
- ctd
- 2 Replies
- 92 Views
- cpt.sparrow
- June 8
SimCity 4 could not install Direct Draw
By Lost At Sea, June 7
- direct draw
- crash
- 3 Replies
- 117 Views
- Null 45
- June 7
Unemployed People in Mega Downtown City
By Mayor Isaac, February 28
- no jobs
- glitch
- 1 Reply
- 79 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 28
Rail Crossing Markings & Gates Not Correct in LHD
By ausa07, December 29, 2013
- lhd
- rail
- (and 1 more)
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  rail
  
  crossings
- 7 Replies
- 1,170 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 28
How to get dgVoodoo 2 working on Linux
By MegaMiku, February 16
- simcity 4
- proton
- (and 2 more)
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  simcity 4
  
  proton
  
  wine
  
  linux
- 13 Replies
- 844 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 28
SimCity 4 randomly crashes
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By Railattack10, November 10, 2020
- problem
- crash
- (and 1 more)
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  crash
  
  ctd
- 45 Replies
- 7,203 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 27
Grid showing all lots abandoned
By jcohen, February 15
- bug
- abandonment
- 28 Replies
- 378 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 25
Installing SimCity 4 on Ubuntu
By adamoteentitans, September 19, 2018
- install
- ubuntu
- (and 1 more)
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  install
  
  ubuntu
  
  linux
- 29 Replies
- 3,930 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 25
Maxis Renewal missing base texture
By Doni98, February 22
- maxis renewal
- bug
- (and 2 more)
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  bug
  
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  missing
- 1 Reply
- 56 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 22
Base texture dependencies missing
By Doni98, February 19
- dependency
- texture
- (and 4 more)
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  texture
  
  bug
  
  simcity 4
  
  dependencies
  
  industrial revolution
- 4 Replies
- 123 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 22
[SOLVED] SC4 laggy / stuttering on Linux with Bottles
By Han Solo, February 16
- linux
- bottles
- (and 2 more)
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  linux
  
  bottles
  
  wine
  
  solved
- 2 Replies
- 89 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 16
PC crashed, Fresh Windows install, Installed SimCity 4, won't load [Solved]
By Lazarou Monkey Terror, February 14
- reinstallation
- 6 Replies
- 118 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 15
Not Loading Plugins, Regions & dgVoodoo
By Taz the Mystic, February 14
- plugins
- 2 Replies
- 101 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 15
SimCity 4 Deluxe for Windows 11
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By daderic888, January 6
- simcity 4
- gog
- (and 1 more)
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  simcity 4
  
  gog
  
  windows 11
- 72 Replies
- 1,609 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 15
Constantly excessive residential demand
By durbancic, February 14
- demand
- traffic
- (and 1 more)
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  demand
  
  traffic
  
  residential
- 6 Replies
- 172 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 14
Bus lighting bug
By Doni98, January 28
- simcity 4
- bus
- (and 2 more)
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  simcity 4
  
  bus
  
  lighting
  
  bug
- 3 Replies
- 148 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 9
Stream Crashing
By mattr, February 5
- windows
- stream
- (and 1 more)
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  stream
  
  crashing
- 2 Replies
- 81 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 5
Full screen resolution
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By elavery, February 7, 2019
- screen
- resolution
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  screen
  
  resolution
  
  help
  
  simcity 4
- 48 Replies
- 18,179 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 30
Crash to Desktop? Look here first.
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By tjh876, August 12, 2010
- crash
- ctd
- 264 Replies
- 40,989 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 27
4 GB patch / sc4pac
By fritzfarlig, January 22
- 4 gb patch / sc4pac
- 4 Replies
- 167 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 22

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  By mitsos · Posted: 1 hour ago
  
  Thank you Kergelen. No i didn't use water, you can build brigdes where there is a certain height between the two sides of the cliff.
- I'm so confused
  
  By darkscaryforest · Posted: 2 hours ago
  
  I'm a new player. This game just feels like a black box to me most of the time. When I have a problem or am successful at something, I only have concepts of the what or the how instead of solid knowledge of what is happening. I appreciate anyone who can help me understand more about the game with my current problems. I have NAM installed as well as various fixes (including hi-tech fix, opera house fix). No CAM mod installed. I've started my first region. I built a city in one of the small squares. I completely covered it with a mix of residential, commercial, and industrial zones. It looks fairly successful at first glance since I have 120k sims, a large surplus of money, high education/healthcare/desirability, and traffic is under control by having bus stops and a subway along with the roads. The problem is I have massive swathes of high-wealth, high density residential areas without jobs. Interspersed in these areas were buildings abandoned "due to commute time", but I suspect what that really means is "abandoned due to infinite commute time" aka no jobs. (Can anyone confirm if that's a real thing?) I wanted to say the issue was that I have high density residential stuff and low density industrial/commercial? I honestly don't know. What I mean is I mouse over a resident building and see spots for an insane 3000 people, where as I mouse over the biggest high-tech building I can find and it has like 100 jobs. Is it the case that way more of your land will be commercial and industry? I was kind of hoping I'd get very large workplaces too. I don't see how else I could raise the pop further otherwise. Since I was out of land to build more stuff...I knew one way to fix this was to go to a neighboring region and build commercial/industry there. So I did...and it sort of worked? Maybe? I could build a few sections of hi-tech and commercial before the demand zeroed out next door. Then I would reload the main city, quit, then reload the neighbor and low and behold a little more would magically build. I repeated this like 30 times and now 1/3 of the neighbor city is filled with hi-tech/high wealth commercial with 0 residents. I can't tell if I just exploiting a bug here on accident or if you're supposed to reload repeatedly like this. In main city, there are still a few places with no jobs, but I wanted to say that it worked and they are commuting. However, then I noticed a NEW problem. Now, almost all of my existing hi-tech and commercial in the first city are abandoned due to low demand. These places were fine before. I'm assuming this is because of the neighboring region. I don't understand..I thought I was just filling in the jobs that were missing? Yet somehow I have supplanted jobs in the first city... Was I wrong in thinking that I was filling in the missing jobs by building in a neighboring region? Maybe jobs are like pollution...trapped in the same city square Maybe my issue is about this magical, nebulous growth stage I've heard about? Like if I go off and make 3 other 100k cities, and then reload my first one sky scrapers could pop up and solve these density problems? I feel I don't have great control over this stuff. I just kind of float on vibes.
  Thanks for any help. Like I've said I've watched tutorials but it really feels like there's a lot of black magic here.
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  By bhmantan · Posted: 3 hours ago
  
  Rural and urban showcases
- Two WinTextEdits for one Query
  
  By Kel9509 · Posted: 4 hours ago
  
  @Urban Vibravant, I'll try to help you. Not only have I used that real subway station many times, I often went to Midtown Comics prior to COVID and have occasionally gone back with the kid in order to browse their extensive selection of toys on their second floor. And your buildings are awesome so they deserve their own awesome query. I recall a thread where you were asking if a growable building could act as a subway. Irrespective if that works or not (I'm not sure if it would), there's no reason why a query cannot display something that appears to be a secondary named item within. I think the issue is that your secondary window for the subway station part of the query is using the "iid=IGZWinTextEdit id=0x00001000" property to display the name of the building twice, which because it's relying on a variable will always display what that variable is, no matter how many times. The variable is 0x00001000, and that is the building name, and if you rename one it will revert back to the "correct" variable from the building exemplar. What might work is hard-coding that secondary name into your custom query so it displays what it's supposed to display. It will be static, but it will appear as you want. Similar coding was done in the secondary windows for the Census Repository, where the name of the building "Census Repository Vault" is shown, but then other elements below are hard-coded as LTEXT or plain text entries: "City Budget Overview", "Residential Capacity", "Commercial Job Supply", and "Industrial Job Supply." Those cannot be edited, but they shouldn't be because the query should display things as they are. If you want the name to be editable, I'm not sure how to do that. But certainly if you hard-code the secondary name into the query, it will display properly just as it does for the Census Repository. Aside from that, your query is light-years ahead of anything I ever could've done. It is a fantastic piece of art. You are very, very skilled and frankly I am super impressed. I'm also very glad to help you out because your buildings and your efforts are top-notch and above all, I love a good custom query (and hence, no need to split off this thread from the original but that's a minor matter).
- Two WinTextEdits for one Query
  
  By Null 45 · Posted: 6 hours ago
  
  The Lua extensions DLL wouldn't cover something like this. So basically a building that happens to have a built-in transit station? SC4 only supports one building per lot, so the WinTextEdit field is used for the main building. Internally the custom name property is stored as the item name. While my Query Tool UI Extensions DLL adds additional features to the query dialog, it is not set up for this kind of custom dialog editing.
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