RMIP Lighting

[Teddybear999 1]

I know what your going to say, 'not another question about night lights. If i had a pound, etc! etc!'.

Well yes it is. You see my problem is the buildings in my airport just refuse to light up at night, and not just  the RMIP ones either it's all of them. I have downloaded and installed the EP1 and Bat updates, also alli dependancies are up to date according to cleanitol. I've ran the sim for 6 months in day time mode before switching to night mode and still nothing. What am I doing wrong? 

Regards

Teddybear

[jim 546 43]

Is it just these buildings? If you haven't tried any other buildings that need the update, download some and check for nightlights. If they don't work, then you may have downloaded the wrong region update. If they work and it's just these, make sure that you give the buildings power (or else how will the lights work? ).  Also, check that your Simcity 4 Version is 1.1.640.0.

[Teddybear999 1]

Firstly I appologize for posting the message in the wrong part of the forum. Secondly, I was up till the wee hours this morning trying to solve this puzzle. In the end, I am back to square one and now have no hair on my head. I followed your suggestions and this is where we are at to date. I reinstalled SC4 DE a total of 4 times and at each occasion this is what happened when i installed the different SKU files after a reinstall. The night Bat file was installed after each step:

SKU 1 altered files = SimCity_1,2,3,4 & 5.dat SC4 version 1.1.638.0 (1.1.640.0 after bat install)

SKU 2 altered files = SimCity_2,3 & 4.dat SC4 version 1.1.610.0

SKU 3 altered files = SimCity_4 & 5.dat SC4 version 1.1.610.0

SKU 4 altered files = SimCity_5.dat SC4 version 1.1.610.0

SKU 5 altered files = NONE SC4 version 1.1.610.0

Just for good measure and for test purposes I downloaded Clocktower2 which needs the latest nightlights Bat to work at night. This was placed right next to the power station and road. One further point, when I installed SKU_1, all the files checked out correctly for the number of bytes but, when I installed the nightlights Bat, SimCity_1.dat dropped from 144mb to 141mb. I don't know if this means anything.

Hope this helps to put you in the picture.

Regards

Teddybear

[jim 546 43]

Whilst I think, I have a quick question: Are you using any modifiers such as CD-cracks? If you are using such modifications, the patches will not fully update your game.

[Teddybear999 1]

No, no cd cracks.

[jim 546 43]

To clarify, did the Clocktower nightlights work? (Sorry, but I didn't see that in your previous post). You may try running the game with a simplified plugins list. Try loading with only the RMIP and ACB Terminals in your Plugins folder.

[Teddybear999 1]

My sincere appologies for not replying sooner. But the only thing I could think of was to go right back to the drawing board as it were. So I deleted everything from my system to do with SC4 and reinstalled it from scratch, tested it then updated it. I then installed the plugins one at a time and tested each one. Thats why it's taken me so long to reply.

After all that hard work it's payed off, because everything is working as it should. Nightlights and everything. Heaven knows what was wrong in the first place. Probaly some missing file or other, and just to prove it works I've included a picture of my fictional International Airport fully lit. When it's complete I will of course post some pictures of it for you to comment on.

Many many thanks for all your help in this matter and I hope you didn't get too many sleepless night over it. Thanks again.

Regards

Teddybear