Trying to come back

[felipea6 5]

Long time ago I played this game, was in sale at GOG, purchased... very excited to play again.

Followed all this tutorial, thanks Ulisses and Lucario. 

End up trying to install NAM and CAM. I believe I did it correctly, installed all dependencies. 

Mainly everything from the tutorial is deployed to: my \Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition\Plugins

and everything related to CAM and NAM to: \Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins

First question is this correct? do we have 2 different folders for plugins? or should I centralize everything to the plugin folder under (x86)?

I noticed I can't start the game properly because I can't deploy a power station, it simply doesn't show the menu item, or better, a submenu item.

Log of the submenu dll says:

Submenus DLL 1.1.5
02:33:12 Installed the Duplicate/Missing Menu Icons fix.
02:33:12 Installed the Submenus patch.
02:33:16 Installed the Exemplar Patching feature.
02:33:19 Loaded 16 Exemplar patches targeting, in total, 44 Exemplar files.
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x984E5034: submenu-plop-R$$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xA7FF7CF0: submenu-plop-CO$$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x62D82695: submenu-plop-Id
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x11BF1CA9: submenu-plop-CS$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xDEFFD960: submenu-modular-parks
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x83E040BB: submenu-signage
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xBB531946: submenu-embankment
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x954E20FE: submenu-plop-Iht
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xC220B7D8: submenu-plop-Ia
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x68B3E5FD: submenu-plop-Im
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xF034265C: submenu-fillers
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x84D42CD6: submenu-waterfront
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x8BA49621: submenu-military
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xDD5DC0E7: submenu-watercraft
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xD013F32D: submenu-misc-power
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x9F83F133: submenu-plop-R$$$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x93DADFE9: submenu-plop-R$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x1CD18678: submenu-seawall
02:40:09 Initialized 53 submenus (18 empty, 0 not reachable).

not sure what could be missing of if there is a compreheensive list of all dependencies that I should go through and add. I also noticed Ulisses graphic is beautiful where, mine is a little crapy even with reshade, and Im using a very good gpu (AMD 7900xtx) is there something else I can do to enhance graphics? playing in 1920x1080.

Thanks for any help you could provide, I just want to play this amazing game and build my cities with all the upgrades from this years of development from this fantastic community!

 

 

[CorinaMarie 29,898]

On 8/7/2025 at 3:17 AM, felipea6 said:

02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xD013F32D: submenu-misc-power

I'm way too far behind on the powerful new features, but this log entry sort of makes me think there's a discrepancy between the sub-menu DLL and the data in the exemplars of the power plants. That's just a guess tho.

If you remove the sub menu DLL temporarily, do you then see the power plants in their normal place?

[felipea6 5]

that worked, I removed everything related to submenus.... some of the icons are missing, but who cares Im enjoying a lot... 

so many things to try...

[CorinaMarie 29,898]

21 hours ago, felipea6 said:

that worked,

It sounds like it only worked inasmuch as we know there is something off kilter with your sub-menus. This was merely a test to help isolate where the trouble was. For instance, if a custom power plant didn't show up without any other mods or DLLs then we'd know it was related to that lot itself.  

[Ulisse Wolf 4,462]

On 07/08/2025 at 9:17 AM, felipea6 said:

Long time ago I played this game, was in sale at GOG, purchased... very excited to play again.

Followed all this tutorial, thanks Ulisses and Lucario. 

End up trying to install NAM and CAM. I believe I did it correctly, installed all dependencies. 

Mainly everything from the tutorial is deployed to: my \Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition\Plugins

and everything related to CAM and NAM to: \Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins

First question is this correct? do we have 2 different folders for plugins? or should I centralize everything to the plugin folder under (x86)?

I noticed I can't start the game properly because I can't deploy a power station, it simply doesn't show the menu item, or better, a submenu item.

Log of the submenu dll says:

Submenus DLL 1.1.5
02:33:12 Installed the Duplicate/Missing Menu Icons fix.
02:33:12 Installed the Submenus patch.
02:33:16 Installed the Exemplar Patching feature.
02:33:19 Loaded 16 Exemplar patches targeting, in total, 44 Exemplar files.
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x984E5034: submenu-plop-R$$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xA7FF7CF0: submenu-plop-CO$$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x62D82695: submenu-plop-Id
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x11BF1CA9: submenu-plop-CS$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xDEFFD960: submenu-modular-parks
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x83E040BB: submenu-signage
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xBB531946: submenu-embankment
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x954E20FE: submenu-plop-Iht
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xC220B7D8: submenu-plop-Ia
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x68B3E5FD: submenu-plop-Im
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xF034265C: submenu-fillers
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x84D42CD6: submenu-waterfront
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x8BA49621: submenu-military
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xDD5DC0E7: submenu-watercraft
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0xD013F32D: submenu-misc-power
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x9F83F133: submenu-plop-R$$$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x93DADFE9: submenu-plop-R$
02:40:09 Hiding empty submenu with Button ID 0x1CD18678: submenu-seawall
02:40:09 Initialized 53 submenus (18 empty, 0 not reachable).

not sure what could be missing of if there is a compreheensive list of all dependencies that I should go through and add. I also noticed Ulisses graphic is beautiful where, mine is a little crapy even with reshade, and Im using a very good gpu (AMD 7900xtx) is there something else I can do to enhance graphics? playing in 1920x1080.

Thanks for any help you could provide, I just want to play this amazing game and build my cities with all the upgrades from this years of development from this fantastic community!

 

 

For graphics see this tutorial where Reshade configuration is included

For the log submenu:

From what I can see submenus have been hidden because you don't have content that goes to fill those submenus so DLL goes and hides these empty submenus. The behavior is normal

For the installation of mods.

Currently all mods should be installed in Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins except for some mods like dgvoodoo 2 which requires a completely different procedure. So I recommend you read all the readme.

If you have too many doubts or fear in this case I suggest you leave the manual installation alone and use SC4Pac to install the mods and dependencies automatically