SimCity 4 Deluxe Water Turned Black - Need Help!

[JaggedSmile 1]

I have a glitch in my SimCity 4 Deluxe game where the top of the water has turned black. I have installed a number of  Mods & Bats, (as shown below) but followed the instructions within the readme files. However I must have missed something that is causing this conflict. I'm hoping that someone with this knowledge can help direct me to where I can fix this problem

Update:

I notice now that if I go into a new region the water is default blue. I can then go into the "Create a City" and the water is still default blue. If I save before or when I exit that city the water surface is black but if I don't save the water remains default blue.

Please if anyone knows what may be causing this I would greatly appreciate your help.

Thank You

Here is a snapshot of the effect

Below is all the information pertaining to the configuration of my computer and the game.

Game Played

SimCity 4 Deluxe

Latest Update (From EA Site)

SKU 2 - Update - Retail to Patch 1 (B638)

Computer Specs

CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.01 GHZ

RAM - 2.00 GB

Video Card - GeForce 8800 GT Alpha Dog Edition w/512MB

Page File - Available - 3271 MB Used: 667 MB

Recently Installed Mods/Lots/Bats

BSC Cnut Mega Prop Pack	BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol01
BSC Flag Pack 1	BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol02
BSC MEGA Props RT Vol 01	BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol03
BSC Newman Inc Coal Mine V2	BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol04
BSC Prop Pack Cycledogg No 1	BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol05
BSC DAE Dirt Track Texture Pack	BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol06
BSC Essentials	BSC MEGA Props - SG Vol 01
BSC Mega Props DAE Vol01	BSC Props Jeronij Vol 02 Trees
BSC Park Brickworks Market	BSC Props Jeronij Vol 03 Trees Seasonal Woods
BSC Parks Amphitheatre Set	Dusktrooper Road Bridge
BSC Parks Base Set V2	DuskTrooper Trees One Plopable
BSC Parks Caliban Mother Russia	DuskTrooper Trees Pack ONE
BSC Parks Ripptides Parks	Plopable Maxis Flora Pack
BSC Parks Simgoober Bridges	Residential And Rural Diagonal Walls Set V1
BSC Parks Sunken Plazas	Avenue Roundabout Subway Station
DEDWD Sunken Plazas Mall Set	Avenue Roundabouts SUB And BUS
DEDWD Sunken Plazas Mayan Plaza	Chiba Port Tower V2.0
DEDWD Sunken Plazas Tree Plaza	Japanese Seasonal Diagonal Parks
DEDWD Sunken Plazas Tree Plaza2	Japanese Walls Set
BSC Parks V2 Gardeners Compound	JPN Rice Fields
Caliban Lots BSC	Mas71_JRP-CoreLotPack
DEDWD Aussie Windmill	Mas71_JRP-PROP Pack Vol01
DEDWD IHT Pharmaceuticals	Mas71_JRP-PROP Pack Vol02
BSC Parks V2 Wall Set	Mas71_JRP-PROP Pack Vol03
JPN Sunken Parks	Mas71_JRP-PROP Pack Vol04
MAS71 PropPack Vol01	Mas71_JRP-PROP Pack Vol05
MAS71 PropPack Vol02 (Parks)	Mas71_JRP-AddonLotPack01
MAS71 PropPack Vol03	Mas71_JRP-AddonLotPack02
MAS71 Walls Pack 2	Kleine Mietshaeuser Pack
MAS71 Walls Pack 2 - Highwalls	Large Urban Clinic
MAS71 Walls Pack 2 - Walls Texture's Addon 01	Peter Ustinov Memorial Gazebo
Marrast Emb Set	SFBT Rural Power Lines
Marrast Embankments BSC	SNM Security Fences
Marrast MEGA Pack Vol01	Suburban Clinic
NDEX Atlantia Tower	Urban Clinic
NDEX Greywood Lofts	Urban Clinic - New Urban Clinic
NDEX Riddle Me This Nightclub	Warsaw Ujazdowskie Avenue 18
OneWay Railroad Crossings Mod	BSC Irrigation Canal Set
PEG God Mode Pine Trees Mod	BSC MEGA Props SG Vol 01
PEG Mayor Mode Pine Trees Mod	Chuck E Cheese
PEG MTP Mountain Theme Pack	Larger High School
PEG MTP Mountain Theme Pack	Hole Digging Lots
PEG MTP Random Woods	NAM_April_2008
PEG Pine Trail Head	NHP Hole Digging Lots
PEG Pine Trail Rail Crossing	BSC Texture Pack jeroni Vol01
PEG Pine Trails V305	BSC Textures Mega Pack Vol. 1
PEG Random Forest	BSC Textures Vol 01
PEG Stream Kit II V205	BSC Textures Vol 02
NDEX Texture Set Volume 1	DEDWD Master Dependency List v102

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tungston

[TV-VCR 15]

Some of those items in that list I've never heard of before. Did you possibly install a water mod?

If you did but that's not what it should look like, or you didn't, check to see you have all of the dependencies, and that Simcity loads the mod at the appropriate time (if you have a water mod). If you have a terrain mod (and a water mod), try putting the water mod in the terrain mod's folder. If you have a terrain mod that came with a water mod, and you have your own water mod, they may be conflicting. Try removing one. If you do have a water mod and those suggestions don't work, trying adding zzzz_ at the begging of the filename of the water mod's file.

If you don't have a water mod, just download one and install it, and see what that does. If none of that works, it's likely a graphical problem or files may possibly be corrupt.

[SC4BOY 21]

I believe these are caused by MAS71's new items.. you might want to follow his threads if you choose to use his downloads.. especially those he points out are experimental

Of course it could be other things as TV-VCR suggested

[JaggedSmile 1]

@ SC4BOY & TV-VCR

Thank you both for your responses. It was in fact a Water Mod. And it was two of MAS71's files. Both were beta files.

For future reference to others in case this happens for anyone else

These are the names of the files

JRP_Transparent Water Beta.dat

JRP_WaterMod_Beta.dat

The pack that  had these files within them is as follows.

JRP AddonLotPack2.zip

I have since removed only those two files from the Addon Pack and everything is back to normal.

Next time I will have to take better note of where beta files go when they are extracted and check those first.

Again thank you for your replies. They were greatly appreciated

[CaptCity 4,941]

I've been 'fiddlin' around with Mas's JRP lots and noticed the new water texture. The JRP_WaterMod_Beta.dat file's purpose is to change the game's water to a texture matching that of the water used by the JRP. The JRP_Transparent Water Beta.dat adds three transition pieces to the game to be used to transition from the JRP water to the game's water when connecting to river or coast.

Both of these files are optional as mentioned in the Readme, and are not required to use the JRP lots. Even though they are Beta files, they seem to function as intended. Just a few thoughts...

[FinalTable 1]

@ SC4BOY & TV-VCR

Thank you both for your responses. It was in fact a Water Mod. And it was two of MAS71's files. Both were beta files.

For future reference to others in case this happens for anyone else

These are the names of the files

JRP_Transparent Water Beta.dat

JRP_WaterMod_Beta.dat

The pack that  had these files within them is as follows.

JRP AddonLotPack2.zip

I have since removed only those two files from the Addon Pack and everything is back to normal.

Next time I will have to take better note of where beta files go when they are extracted and check those first.

Again thank you for your replies. They were greatly appreciated

I had the same problem, thanks for your post, and the help. I took out both beta files and everything is back to normal.