Kazan

my drivers are all fine it was the SecuDisk DRM crap or whatever it was called not getting along with my SATA DVD Rom - used to work fine with my PATA drive i had to replace.

Ok, so I freshly installed Sim City 4 and got the update for my region off the EA website. Both before applying the patch, and after - sim city 4 won't start up. I click on its short cut, or directly on its .exe file in the apps folder and nothing happens UAC disabled tried running as admin tried running in XP SP2 compat mode tried running as admin in XP SP2 compat mode... nothing works.

yeah right now i'm trying to get cleaned up from a XP to Vista upgrade (<3 being a computer science student.. site licenses for all microsoft software)

it would be nice to know what is on there to know what are the "important" packages (other than NAM, SimoleonRH for us $-lazies, PEG's stuff)

I'm a college student living off my loans and I don't have any money to spare to fork out to get these disks, anyway I can get a list of their contents so I can assemble it myself from the downloads pages?

oh and don't forget the modern pebble bed reactor type developed by germany - if the cooling system goes off the reaction naturally tones down and it's literally impossible to have a criticality excursion (a meltdown)

arg... it crashed while saving and I lost my last hour or two worth of work on that city well i'll just start over clean

i'm having a problem with unemployment in my biggest city - they build large residential buildsing, and once in a while comercial and industrial demand spike, but then they just fall right back below zero i have a sea port, airport, just got the advanced research center, I have positive cash flow, good schools (including a private) the university, population ~60k is thins something i'm going to have to work on suburbs to fix?

ok it helped some - but i'm still looking for a tutorial on how to get my city to grow and have demand for more than agriculture, low density housing, and normal industry with almost no comercial

Ok, so I longed for the age old days of playing Sim City (last I played was SC2k!) so I acquired a copy of SC4.. my how things have changed (it's also nice not to have the cheat codes memorized - never could resist the impulse to cheat in SC2k once i had them memorized) anyway . I'm just learning how to use SC4 - anyone have a really excellent guide - i'm using the Fairview region and I have two of the large city areas filled with small cities (with lots of agriculture zone) but i'm just not getting demand for higher comercial of industry - just low density everything. I'm running positive monthly balances and I have good education, health and fire in all of them. Any tips? oh yeah... and anyone have a nice compilation pack of essential downloads on here - buildings, plugins, etc