NAM 32 Crashing at City Startup

[DiscGolfer947 0]

Title explains is all.  I've just recently got back into the game (found Haljakey's "Building A City From Scratch" videos) and have gotten myself a bunch of mods, like I had before.  As it is right now I have a perfectly stable (as stable as SC4 can be) game without NAM 32 in my plugins, but when I put NAM 32 into my plugins folder I crash every time I try to load up a city tile (unincorporated cities as well).  I've tried different installs with more and less of the content installed, I've tried emptying my plugins of everything except NAM...I've tried everything I can think of and am at a completely loss on what could possibly be causing my issue.  

I don't know what kind of things are needed to diagnose what could be causing the issues but if someone can let me know I will get them up in the post as soon as I can.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

First, did you notice that NAM 32 is so large that it is doubly packed.  You have to run the first exe to unpack the installer, then run the installer to set up the NAM.

 

What operating system are you running?

[DiscGolfer947 0]

I'm nearly 100 percent certain I unpacked it correctly, I've gotten previous versions of NAM to work with no issues in the past.  But, the fact that you ask my OS makes me realize that the issue may lie there.  I'm running on Win 8.1.  That never crossed my mind because I've never had an issue with Win 7 programs running on Win 8. 

[DiscGolfer947 0]

And running the game in compatibility mode for Win 7 makes it work. WOO!

 

Man, I feel dumb now.

[DiscGolfer947 0]

But now ShiftWindow doesn't work on the SC4 window. ARGH!

 

edit: It works again, I'm a happy human right about now

  Edited August 18, 2014 by DiscGolfer947  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Don't feel bad.  MS people cast pearls out with their versions as if they were of some value, but they also have a habit of tossing the baby out with the bath water.  I believe they are trying to make a PC look like a touch tablet without many fixes in the NT kernel.  It must be getting pretty organic by now.  Time for a rewrite.  Someone should send them the Minix text book.

[DiscGolfer947 0]

Haha.  I actually like Win 8 quite a bit. I definitely a few gripes about it but it's superbly fast and snappy as well as very light.  I usually boot all the way to desktop in well under half the time I did with Win 7 and idling at desktop the OS only takes up about half as much RAM...the extra frames in games is really nice as well.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, it is nice that they removed some of the bloat, but in doing so they broke several things.  All operating systems should be lean and mean.  Unfortunately development shops (Ubuntu is included in this) lose sight of this principle while trying to be everything to everybody with the result that the base system grows without thought.

 

When I was chair of the features committee of a large user group, we managed to get our shirt in a knot on behalf of a couple of users who objected to the removal of JCL to support magnetic tape libraries that had been out of fashion for twenty years.  It was an amusing situation, but the developer sprang it on us in the middle of the meeting.  O/S development can be nasty at times.