Game won't start - HELP!! (For Mac)

[sleibman 3]

Hey all,

Been a member on here for well over a decdae or more (though using a new account) and recently started playing SimCity 4 again after about a 10 year hiatus. I've been using it allmost daily for a month now (steam copy, on a mac) and suddenly, my game wont start correctly. It launches in silence and without the "EA games" and "aspyr" launch windows and then dumps me into a blank region with no labels and no labels when i click on anything. When I try to open a lot the game crashes, however I am able to quit out of the game when in the region. I know Mac support is limited but anyone have any ideas of what could be going on? Been researching for awhile to no avail.

 

Best,

Sam

[Spongebob7 0]

same problem here, it seems that some plugin files are causing the game to crash. You might need to remove some of your plugin files

[c4bl3fl4m3 405]

That's classic behavior for the Too Many Files/Folders Bug. Check out the first entry in this: 

 

[sleibman 3]

Thank you all, I figured it out and it was the plugins, had to go one by one and find and remove the bad file. Thanks!!

[c4bl3fl4m3 405]

On 5/23/2020 at 5:36 PM, sleibman said:

Thank you all, I figured it out and it was the plugins, had to go one by one and find and remove the bad file. Thanks!!

Which file did you find to be bad? Because I've never seen this problem caused by a bad file (rather, simply too MANY files), and if there is a bad file that can cause this as well, then I need to update the Troubleshooting 101 document.