Can't see highway when clicking on it

[LightSkinnedPisces 71]

I recently went to ground highway or elevated highway and its just a square, when  I scroll thru them it doesn't scroll it just shows a square. roads worked but highway wouldn't 

[rsc204 21,808]

I'm sorry but it's not entirely clear what you are having problems with. Do you mean that the highway menu does not contain the correct items? Or something to do with trying to draw such networks? 

[LightSkinnedPisces 71]

basically when I to go highways and click on it usually there will be the highway and then u scroll thru them to the one u want but when I click on it its just a white square. that's it. it wouldn't let me take a pic tho

[rsc204 21,808]

Sounds to me like it's a problem with an icon of some sort. As a test, can you temporarily remove the Network Addon Mod and z___NAM folders out of Plugins, to somewhere they won't load when starting SC4. Then run the game, but use a blank city for test purposes, can you scroll properly through the highway menu now. Of course any NAM additions will be gone, but we're just checking here if the problem exists in your NAM install or other 3rd party plugins.

If the menu's during this test work just fine, it strikes me you must be missing the icons for the NAM alterations/additions for highway. If they still show problems, then you have some custom plugin that has either a missing or faulty (corrupted) icon.

Having no icon for just one item in a menu can cause a large area to be unselectable.

[LightSkinnedPisces 71]

so how do I temporarily move them somewhere where they wont load when starting SC4?

[LightSkinnedPisces 71]

its also in other sections such as residential, industrial, etc , electricity, etc so its not just the highways...also all roads section is not icon just a square so you can't scroll thru or see what u have

[rsc204 21,808]

3 hours ago, LightSkinnedPisces said:

so how do I temporarily move them somewhere where they wont load when starting SC4?

SC4 only loads files inside the Plugins folder where all your addons and mods should reside. For example, you could move these folders to the desktop.

1 hour ago, LightSkinnedPisces said:

its also in other sections

Well NAM certainly doesn't affect Res, Ind etc. Thing is, the icons there are part of the base game and as such, it shouldn't be possible for them to go missing. File corruption is always a possibility, but that's not hugely likely.

At this point I need to ask if you've changed anything, prior to the changes in game. You state in your first post it had been working, I'm just now wondering if this isn't a graphics issue of some kind? Note Windows Update can and will install new Graphics Drivers without prompting you. It's possible a driver update has caused problems. Did all the menus start suffering the problem at the same time?