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Game just completely broken and no buttons are loading
By Jake1702, January 7
- simcity 4
- menus
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  menus
  
  missing
- 3 Replies
- 120 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 14
Polution negate bad
By PIPICécé, December 19, 2025
- polution
- 6 Replies
- 119 Views
- PIPICécé
- December 21, 2025
Does My Snow Look Correct?

By Robotica, December 11, 2013
- 0 Replies
- 118 Views
- Robotica
- December 11, 2013
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
SimCity 4 could not install Direct Draw
By Lost At Sea, June 7
- direct draw
- crash
- 3 Replies
- 117 Views
- Null 45
- June 7
User interface editor problem
By PIPICécé, June 1, 2025
- tools
- 0 Replies
- 116 Views
- PIPICécé
- June 1, 2025
Missing fire trucks

By larry459714, May 4, 2013
- 2 Replies
- 115 Views
- Cyclone Boom
- May 4, 2013
Game crashes when loading any tile
By KristopherVector, October 31, 2025
- simcity 4
- 2 Replies
- 115 Views
- Digicoma
- November 2, 2025
Problem with vista

By teo928, May 21, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 113 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 21, 2013
Neighbor deal problem

By teomares, December 28, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 113 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- December 28, 2013
Red green blue squares on lots (part 2)
By MstrFox1982, June 25, 2025
- bug
- squares
- (and 2 more)
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  bug
  
  squares
  
  missing
  
  dependencies
- 0 Replies
- 112 Views
- MstrFox1982
- June 25, 2025
R/C $$$

By svachon, November 8, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 111 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- November 8, 2013
Editing family props
By PIPICécé, June 9, 2025
- properties
- 1 Reply
- 110 Views
- PIPICécé
- June 9, 2025
Game Killing Bug
By Ablivinati, April 15, 2013
- bug
- deletes
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  city
- 1 Reply
- 109 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- April 15, 2013
No named props

By B.C builder, April 27, 2013
- 0 Replies
- 107 Views
- B.C builder
- April 27, 2013
IRM mod missing texture [Solved]
By utora2, January 4
- t wrecks
- bsc textures
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  bsc textures
  
  bsc props
- 2 Replies
- 107 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 7
Strange graphics clipping glitch
By Vitoria90, January 2
- graphics
- visual
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  visual
  
  clipping
  
  transparency
- 9 Replies
- 106 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 2
No night lights

By Mayor Gaetan, September 3, 2012
- 1 Reply
- 105 Views
- art128
- September 5, 2012
Sound effects are gone, everything else is fine
By HazardDefined, January 8
- problem
- simcity 4
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  simcity 4
  
  gameplay
  
  error
  
  sound
  
  effects
- 2 Replies
- 102 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 12
Not Loading Plugins, Regions & dgVoodoo
By Taz the Mystic, February 14
- plugins
- 2 Replies
- 101 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 15
Messed up
By charlesakinney, November 16, 2025
- no landscape
- 0 Replies
- 100 Views
- charlesakinney
- November 16, 2025
Restoration issues of Region Backup
By Digicoma, November 9, 2025
- regions
- city tiles
- (and 2 more)
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  regions
  
  city tiles
  
  backup
  
  restoration
- 2 Replies
- 99 Views
- Digicoma
- November 9, 2025
City load crashes
By MstrFox1982, June 29
- mod
- cleaner
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  cleaner
  
  bug
  
  sim city 4
- 3 Replies
- 99 Views
- Propfam
- Yesterday at 02:55 AM
Crash when dragging
By Skieriver, June 27
- crash
- ctd
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  ctd
  
  drag
- 1 Reply
- 98 Views
- rsc204
- July 3
Farm field
By PIPICécé, July 2, 2025
- fields
- 1 Reply
- 98 Views
- PIPICécé
- July 3, 2025
I need help!

By MladenNinkovic, January 18, 2014
- 0 Replies
- 95 Views
- MladenNinkovic
- January 18, 2014
CTD after new city is loaded
By cpt.sparrow, June 8
- ctd
- 2 Replies
- 92 Views
- cpt.sparrow
- June 8
Texture for Zero7 building missing
By PIPICécé, December 6, 2025
- textures
- 2 Replies
- 92 Views
- PIPICécé
- December 7, 2025
[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
Stream Crashing
By mattr, February 5
- windows
- stream
- (and 1 more)
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  windows
  
  stream
  
  crashing
- 2 Replies
- 81 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 5

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- Need help with sc4pac
  
  By NeveroddoreveN · Posted: 13 minutes ago
  
  Hey there, CorinaMarie! Thanks for your response! How do I find and download NAM Lite? As for the other downloads you mentioned - Terrain, Rock, Beach, Water and Side Water - I am hoping I can find those on sc4pac. And I am supposing the Age Degradation mod would be nice. What did you mean by "managing cities and regional play"? I totally get running a city, and from what I gather, when you said "regional play", the player can link up multiple cities to interact. Am I correct on this? It's been a LONG time since I have played SimCity (the classic version, quite a while back), so I am pretty much starting out fresh, and am so excited to dive right into SimCity 4 Deluxe!! Oh, and what did you mean when you asked if I am game player or a city painter? I am not sure what you mean. Please explain!! Thanks so much for your help!! If there is anything else you can recommend for a newbie (me), please let me know!!
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- Akasaka Prince Hotel relot question
  
  By Foo · Posted: 18 minutes ago
  
  Hiya! I've been relotting KS_JPN buildings and I've hit a small snag with Akasaka Prince Hotel. Since this is a transit enabled lot I copied all the values from the original landmark lot to my PIM-X generated new lot (I did the same with building descriptor values). The original lot's first transit switch is falsely oriented and the automata despawns when entering the lot. After I changed the direction in the lot editor it's fine (after in-game testing), the automata doesn't despawn. Since I want to make a landmark with jobs (like the original lot has) I am wondering about the best practices regarding these values and updating TE Lots. So, my questions for the more knowledgeable among you are: Should I keep this lot as a TE Lot since the direction of the network going through is South to East and not one of the cardinal directions (North-South or West-East) that the other topics on this theme mentioned? Are the values of 0 for Transit Switch Entry Cost and Transit Switch Entry Capacity correct for a lot that is transit enabled but only serves as a visually pleasing path for automata to go through and not a real transit switch for traffic to use? Are the "Ride Train" values in the building descriptor okay? Do they matter for "eye candy" TE Lots or should they be switched and if, to what? Original lot on the left, relot on the right This is the original lot in the Lot editor with the wrong orientation Values copied from the Lot Values in the descriptor Properly oriented switches in the Lot Editor
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  Support for SC4pac will be added later. It doesn't exist yet, but it will be included later or will be included in the CAM Manual.

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