Need help: Editing programs not working under Windows 7 64 bit

[0rion79 1]

Hi all. As you may guess from the title, I'm really down because none of the editing tools for SC4 that I've stored on my HD is working anymore. Before I had WinXP SP3, now Windows 7 64-bit.

I wished to did it because I wished to try to fix a mistake that I did with marras diagonal train stations, since long time ago I did messed up the pedestrians entrance side.

This is what happening with software:

SC4Tool ver 2.2.4 (I guess): I can't open any file, because whenever I click on the "open file icon", some line appears on the screen, like if you were scrolling down a web page, and the program freezes.

LeProp 1.62: can't open any of the dat files.

ILive reader: starting guide on this forum is no longer availeable and, when I open one of the files I need, nothing happens! No data to edit.

DatGen 4: tells me that "Unable to load the file D:\Documenti\SimCity 4\Plugins\Marrast diagonal train stations\mrrst_prs_dia_BILATERAL_approach.dat. It may be in use by another application, or may no longer exist"

O_o

Am I doing anything wrong? Is there any place where I may download the updated version of such files? Or is there anything better now?

Thank you so much!

[jacksunny 741]

Okay try this:

SC4Tool: Find where the .exe is located, right click and select properties. Go into the compatibility tab and under settings select disable desktop composition.

For the other programs try running them in Windows XP SP3 Compatibility. This can be done by right clicking their individual .exe files and selecting properties. Go into the compatibility tab and select the little box beside Run this program in compatibility mode for: Make sure Windows XP (Service Pack 3) is selected in the drop down box.

  Edited July 1, 2011 by jacksunny  

[z1 566]

First of all, make sure that you have the updated version of fshlib.dll for any SC4 programs that use that file. For SC4Tool, the compatibility settings you need are Windows XP SP3, and then the last three of the five Settings check boxes.

Ilive's Reader should work fine, with no compatibility settings. Are you using Version 0.9.3?

The same goes for LEProp. Do you have version 1.62?

[0rion79 1]

First of all, make sure that you have the updated version of fshlib.dll for any SC4 programs that use that file. For SC4Tool, the compatibility settings you need are Windows XP SP3, and then the last three of the five Settings check boxes.

Ilive's Reader should work fine, with no compatibility settings. Are you using Version 0.9.3?

The same goes for LEProp. Do you have version 1.62?

Thanks to all of you for the answers: they did help a lot! Now, I'm just wondering if the backup files that I've kept are corrupted, because even if SC4 Tool is working fine now, none of the programs that I own is able to open any of my backup files. I've also seen that most of them have a 0Kb size, which is suspicious even if the whole backup folder is around 1.6 giga! I wished to download the marrast diagonal train stations anew, but Simcitydevotion is down for maintenance.

Do you think that, if I'm succesful in fixing those files, may I merge them again in my previously dat-packed files?

[z1 566]

Now, I'm just wondering if the backup files that I've kept are corrupted, because even if SC4 Tool is working fine now, none of the programs that I own is able to open any of my backup files. I've also seen that most of them have a 0Kb size, which is suspicious even if the whole backup folder is around 1.6 giga! I wished to download the marrast diagonal train stations anew, but Simcitydevotion is down for maintenance.

Do you think that, if I'm succesful in fixing those files, may I merge them again in my previously dat-packed files?

You seem to have a corrupted file system. You need to run chkdsk on it. Right click on your hard drive in Explorer, select Properties, select the Tools tab, and click on Check Now. You need to check "Automatically fix file system errors." When you're done, if your files aren't fixed, you'll need to download them again. Once you verify that they work, you can add them to your previously dat-packed files (assuming that those are OK). You might also want to consider backups of your files so that this doesn't happen again.

I would also recommend checking in the Event Viewer for disk errors. If you're getting any, you need a new hard drive, and that would take precedence over anything else.

[0rion79 1]

I've checked and those fiels were just corrupted. I've re-downloaded the marrast and re-packed them and Datpacker was good enough to correctlty update all files.

Now I remember that long time ago I did loose part of my backup files by mistake and those train stations were by bad luck just among the corrupted ones. Too bad: things now are going fine, thanks for your help!!