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I just finished making my first region in the SC4Terraformer, but I have a few questions. I read through the entire Read-Me and most of this thread, but I have not found answers yet. I also searched within this topic and on Google with no luck. The first issue was addressed on the first page of this topic by prince_of_sims, but I want to know if there is another way. I want to make all of the lots large, but I don't know when you specify how many lots you want to have. I've tried just making the config.bmp all blue, but it gives me an error when I try to load my region: "It seems that the config.bmp does not match the savegames present in the region folder" I know it's because I changed the color to all blue, but what do I have to do to the rest of the region to make it all match up? The other thing is how do I make the region have standard region texture colors when I load it in SC4? The colors are great for SC4TF, but I don't like how they look in SC4. EDIT: Never mind that first part. I figured out how to get it done. I just exported the map of the region I had made and then made a new region with the 16 large lots. Then I just imported the map of my terraformed region and all was well. I still can't figure out the color thing, though.

Hey guys, I fixed it! I just minimize the game after I go in and set the affinity to only one processor and it works fine.

It does it in software mode as well. I've found another application that has the same problem, so you are right about it not being SC4 related. My drivers must be screwed up somehow. I'll go look into a solution. Thanks for the replies guys.

That might explain it. I manually changed it to hardware rendering when I turned up the options, so that could be the thing. I'll go change it back to software and report back with what happens. EDIT: Changing to software rendering mode did not help. It just decreased my FPS and turned off some stuff like clouds and other effects. The camera jutter was still there. I figured if I couldn't make a FRAPS video then I could just use my digital camera to film the screen. It came out well. You can clearly see what I'm talking about if you watch it. I'll add a link in just a moment. EDIT:

When I go into region view and move the camera around, it doesn't move smoothly. It's hard to describe, but picture the camera moving a few inches, then instantly skipping back an inch and moving over a few more inches, then instantly skipping back an inch, et cetera. While in region mode I have pretty high FPS (in the 70s). I wanted to make a video with FRAPS so you could see the problem, but when I start recording the FPS drops to 30 and the camera jutter goes away. It also doesn't do it in my cities, where the FPS stays around 30. That makes me think this is an FPS related problem. I'm running Vanilla SC4 with no patchs. I had SC4 fully patched and had this problem, so I uninstalled and reinstalled without patching and the problem persists. My system specs (although I think they are irrelevant since SC4 used to run perfectly on this same machine): AMD Opteron 165 ASRock 939Dual Sata II 2GB Corsair XMS ATI Radeon X850 XT PE Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 600GB Maxtor HDDs (2x 300GB) I have the latest DX9 (9.0c June 2007) I have the latest ATI drivers (Omega catalyst 7.4. I know 7.5 is the newest, but 7.4 is the newest Omega) I don't remember having this problem before now. I just started playing SC4 again and it was there when I went in. I would really like to get this fixed, so if you have any ideas I may not hae though of then please tell me. Thank you. P.S. Sorry, forgot to say that I have tried other games (S.T.A.L.K.E.R., StarCraft, and Counter Strike) and I have no graphical issues with any of those. EDIT: When I went back into the game after writing this (the game was minimized) I saw a huge cloud wall. I made a video of it and put it on youtube, so I'll link you to that in a bit. The video will also help you see the stutter I'm talking about. Just after 3 seconds you can see the camera stutter like I was talking about. I believe the cloud wall and the stuttering are related graphical issues just because they are both in region mode and it would be pretty coincidental if they were not related. Here is the video:

I was looking for the rush hour expansion on eBay today and I saw this while I was at it. It's the Mac version of deluxe. I have no idea why I made my first post in the Mac forum when I don't even have a Mac.