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Are you running a different version of Rush Hour to the original SimCity?

By Compromise, March 5, 2006
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- hawkpride147
- August 18, 2007
2560x1440

By ChookWoods, August 12, 2012
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- A Nonny Moose
- August 17, 2012
Critical Disk Maintenance Items

By A Nonny Moose, May 6, 2007
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- 4,780 Views
- tungston
- May 30, 2008
Sim City 4 and RH Vista Compatibility

By razor_303, June 8, 2007
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- 4,719 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- June 10, 2007
Water won't travel through pipes
By ReshiramLover, April 17, 2017
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- igdent
- July 17, 2020
Night Lights patch 1.1.641

By MilitantRadical, August 6, 2011
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- 4,621 Views
- CaptCity
- August 18, 2011
Official Maxis Props
By chimeran, July 20, 2012
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- 9 Replies
- 4,596 Views
- catty-cb
- October 21, 2014
[Solved] Error whenever attempting to save city
By jiffy427, September 21, 2021
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- 16 Replies
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- duggie35
- October 14, 2022
Crashes to Desktop
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By jsimcity4, November 22, 2012
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- 4,518 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- December 13, 2013
Saving City Error
By Starcade, September 24, 2017
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- saving
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- 9 Replies
- 4,507 Views
- Sniffeh
- February 27, 2023
Windows 8 & Sim City 4: Aspect Ratio changes? = smaller game display. HELP!
By skipmac05, January 6, 2013
- windows 8
- sim city 4
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  sim city 4
  
  aspect ratio
  
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- 5 Replies
- 4,502 Views
- Paddywolf
- December 19, 2013
.dat files

By day2d, April 9, 2012
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- 4,487 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- April 10, 2012
What's the "cardIdentity" string for Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
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By sct_0, June 27, 2019
- simcity 4
- nvidia
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- 32 Replies
- 4,452 Views
- Raymond7cn
- October 29, 2019
City borders dont line up in Region view

By phillycheese415, February 19, 2009
- 7 Replies
- 4,448 Views
- gio10469
- February 21, 2009
SimCity 4 does not want to run on the GPU
By Wiotbilu, March 12, 2020
- gpu
- graphics
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- 8 Replies
- 4,441 Views
- Wiotbilu
- March 21, 2020
Trying to run SC4 on Linux
By art128, March 6, 2024
- simcity 4
- linux
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  linux
  
  proton
  
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  play on linux
  
  wine
- 14 Replies
- 4,393 Views
- catty-cb
- March 11, 2024
SimCity on a Netbook?

By John Kirby, September 26, 2009
- 19 Replies
- 4,381 Views
- jason leo
- March 19, 2013
Deleted Timbuktu region by mistake...any way to get it back???

By D3v1ant0n3, February 12, 2010
- 3 Replies
- 4,380 Views
- tungston
- February 13, 2010
Commands to run Simcity 4
By huzman, May 5, 2017
- simcity 4
- command line
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  custom resolution
- 6 Replies
- 4,319 Views
- huzman
- May 6, 2017
SimCity not running on mordern hardware?
By Pakistani890, November 16, 2021
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- 22 Replies
- 4,308 Views
- Propfam
- December 10, 2024
Sim City's 4 automatic display settings

By intel16, January 7, 2010
- 2 Replies
- 4,307 Views
- intel16
- January 7, 2010
Fixed ALL issues with Windows 7/Intel Graphics Compatibility!
By bluemonkey, October 21, 2014
- windows 7
- intel graphics
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  intel graphics
  
  graphics bug
  
  graphics
  
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- 12 Replies
- 4,295 Views
- CorinaMarie
- January 3, 2017
GMAXLOC envrionment variable not found

By JakeMD, May 20, 2007
- 20 Replies
- 4,281 Views
- Glenni
- January 17, 2018
Running SC4 on Windows 10
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By Miss Cuddly, February 14, 2019
- windows 10
- help
- 68 Replies
- 4,211 Views
- Duco
- April 23, 2019
Renderer better for Hardware or Software
By VitroOliveira, May 12, 2018
- renderer
- hardware
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  software
  
  options
- 8 Replies
- 4,162 Views
- CorinaMarie
- February 19, 2022
Scrolling issue.

By WVJimbo, September 9, 2011
- 6 Replies
- 4,154 Views
- emperordaniel
- September 16, 2011
Anyone got Steam SC4 working with Proton in Linux yet?
By Leo_the_robot, October 2, 2019
- SC4
- linux
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  linux
  
  proton
  
  penguin
  
  help
- 17 Replies
- 4,136 Views
- Leo_the_robot
- October 8, 2019
Can't build university

By Jleon11, November 25, 2009
- 6 Replies
- 4,134 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- October 12, 2010
SC4-PIM-X not loading
By KonstantinII, June 12, 2013
- pim-x
- error
- 16 Replies
- 4,132 Views
- AP
- March 18, 2022
[Solved] Updated to Windows 10... crash after 10 seconds - No Audio Bug
By Josh6, June 12, 2020
- crash
- bugs
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  bugs
  
  windows 10
  
  solved
- 6 Replies
- 4,125 Views
- rsc204
- June 13, 2020

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  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.
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  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.
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- 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).
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  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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