gwyned

Date: 6/16/2005 4:15:32 AM Author: Daeley when I first read you PM on this I thought 'huh? that can't be it...' but if you say your testing proves it... man... that's one weird bug I'm completely confused now To everybody: please test this!  If the mod doesn't work, try the Maxis shortcut icon. If the mod works for you, backup and delete the popfile.dat and BSCfields.dat files and run the game with a self-created link, and please report here. well I would be glad in a way if that's it... at least we'd have found the bug... even though it is confusing... thank you Pheonix Rising for investigating so hard into this quote> This has gotta be the strangest thing I have encountered yet with this game...but I can also verify that this worked. I had to reinstall the game in order to get my original shortcut back (I usually just delete them and make my own), but amazingly enough, as soon as I got done with the reinstall and opened my first city, the window popped up and the file was written. Amazing! Great troubleshooting!!

I am having trouble with the new CSX Farm Sweet Lelanie. Despite carefully checking all the listed dependencies in the Readme, I seem to be missing the main farmhouse, as shown. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//lot.jpg align=baseline border=1>

Date: 5/28/2005 3:08:42 AM Author: Daeley hmm... might be getting closer... gwyned do you also have Simcity 4 Deluxe? If so, we have a pattern here just one more question about files... can you tell me where all the simcity_x.dat files are? (x going from 1 to 5) are they also in a subfolder or in the main folder? quote> Sorry to disappoint your theory...but I do not have SC4 Deluxe...I bought the original and the expansion separately. As far as the simcity_x.dat files, they all reside in the main default Simcity 4 directory.

Date: 5/27/2005 6:50:37 PM Author: Daeley no I'm not writing to the registry I'm just writing to a small text file... and I'm not quite sure what a complete reinstaal could do, if anything. I'd say only do this if you really want to do it yourself, because I personally don't think it will matter much... as a sidenote, where is Simcity installed? just C:program filesMaxis? and do you run the .exe from the main directory (or with a link, that's the same) or did you place it somewhere else? It's very important that the .exe is in a path that has Apps as a subfolder. I am using the default installation directories for Simcity 4. I also directly access the .exe file from the Apps subfolder. Good luck, and thanks for all your help!

Date: 5/27/2005 2:39:38 AM Author: Daeley well I will not get into technical details... but comes down to this: The Regional Tracking Mod will write the information it needs to certain files it creates himself (I like to call these 'simcity cookies'). I haven't seen any problems about this with anyone, but if you do not see those files, it may be possible the mod is unable to create them. If this is the case, the problem probably lies not with the mod (or with simcity for that matter) but is probably a case of restricted access. My guess is somewehre in your settings you are giving programs limited write access over your harddrive. Are you on a computer with multiple users? If so, is someone else of them very computer-savvy? It's possible he/she fuzzled a bit with the user priorities and controls if so. I will ask a bit around about this... I would like to get to the bottom of it AFAIK, this should not be an issue in my case. I am running under Windows 98 SE, with only one user (myself) who has full, unlimited access. Other games seem to be able to write files anywhere on the hard drive just fine (save games, etc.). Especially since I recently reformatted the drive and fully reinstalled, I am almost certain that no special tweaks exist over access granted to programs... Unless, of course, your program tries to write to the registry... Hmm... Gwyned

Date: 5/26/2005 3:48:01 PM Author: Daeley the uploaded file is basically the same as guinessmonkey posted... I'm guessing the problem must be somewhere else... as long as you have th BSC_essentials_OG.dat file I don't see where it could be though... can you check your program files simcity folder (the one with the simcity4.exe file) and look for a folder called Apps. Please tell me if there are two files called 'BSCfields.dat' and 'popfile.dat'. These files should be automatically created but they are required for the mod to function properly. Perhaps if they're not there you have some sort of write-protection mecanism that disables LUA from writing there... I am having the same difficulties as Pauld. Basic, one word city names without apostrophes. Although I have the latest version of both the BSC Essentials file and your Regional Tracking Mod, but have never seen hide nor hair of the popup. Interestingly enough, I also do NOT have BSCfields.dat or popfile.dat. Any ideas? Gwyned