Golfer76

I'm trying to make a bridge from an avenue that's fairly long. I can't get it right. I keep getting "unsuitable grade for construction". I can build one with a road, but I would prefer an avenue if that's possible. It should be. It gives me a list of bridges to choose from. Sometimes it says that it is acceptable but when I go to choose a bridge type, it says it can't do it, regardless of where the slider bar isI raised te land using the 24 lot raiser. I know the tallest bridges need to be 30m over the water. I'm not sure what's wrong. I've included pics to see if somebody can give me some advice. Thanks.

Not sure what version of NAM I have, but I'll check.

Thanks. No, I don't have the bridge height mod, or whatever it's called. I thought about the steepness of the edges, but like I said, I could build one with a single road. Maybe I'm wrong, but if that's it, it should be an issue for all of them. I thought about widening the land, but haven't tried it.

I've laid down a 6 lane avenue in my city. I want it to intersect another 6 lane avenue. I'm having trouble getting the intersection right. I'm not sure if I've got all the pieces, if I'm just not finding all of them, or if that's all there is. If you look at the image below, the transition lane looks weird due to the yellow lines on both sides. Also, the blank pieces have a yellow line on one side, so they won't look right, regardless of which way you turn them. So what I'm asking is, is this the only options available? Will I have to live with a yellow line out of place somewhere, or is there other options that I'm not seeing? The only pieces I have are the transition piece, turning lane piece, and blank piece. It seems to me like there should be more, but I don't know if there is or not. Thanks -After I looked at the pic some more, I realized there is a turning/straight lane option for the inside lane. I could do away with the turning lane and just use that. The blank piece would work great with that, with the yellow line on the inside. But what about the outside pieces? I'll either have a yellow line in the middle of the avenue or for one space on the outside. Maybe I'm being picky and I'll have to live with it. But if there's a solution, I'd rather do that.

Thanks Haljackey. That is a great video. It was very helpful to see it created. I should be able to finish mine now. Thanks.

Thanks Joe. I'll try that. I can't believe I looked at the lane transition for as long as I did and didn't realize it was backwards.

I've got some fairly large cities going in my region, well over 150,000 people. In both of them, I keep getting the message something like "Sims scout for offices". I don't remember exactly what it says, but it's something like that. I zone all three densities of commercial, using different sizes. I will even put some 4x4 and they start building almost immediately. If I click inside the thing from the adviser, it picks medium density. So I'm wondering what I'm missing. Is there a certain size I should zone for each building, 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, etc? I can get some fairly tall buildings, but either I'm doing something wrong, or just not zoning enough. Thanks.

I've built an elevated highway that runs over an avenue. Where they cross, they're both at an angle, so they make an X pattern, but line up nicely perpendicular. I'm trying to get ramps for the avenue and I can do that. That's not the problem. The problem is that it raises the ground under part of the avenue to lift it up closer to the highway. Before I click the mouse to use the ramps, it doesn't show the avenue raised up. But once I apply it, it doesn't matter what type of ramp I use, they're all the same. I'd prefer to have my avenue flat. Is there a technique that I'm not using? If it has to be like that, does it also happen for regular roads? Thanks

I'm not sure if you picked up on it or not, but the highway and avenue were both drawn diagonally. I tried it later drawing them straight up and down and side to side and didn't have this problem. If you draw them in a + pattern as opposed to an X pattern, it should work without raising the terrain.

I believe you're right. I tried it without anything being diagonal and it worked just fine. There was no raised avenue doing it that way. It doesn't make sense to me, since they're both diagonal and form a perpendicular line, just like drawing a normal cross pattern. But oh well. I guess I'll have to work around it then. Thanks for your help.

Does your computer have dual core processors? I've had this exact same problem. One thing I found that has worked so far is just using one core for the game. If you have a dual core processor, go Cntl+Alt+Delete and get the task manager open. Click on processes and find Sim City 4 on the list. Right click and go to Set Affinity. It will have all the processors listed with a check box. Uncheck them, so that only one is left checked. This should make it work better. Now, whenever you turn the game off, it will reset back to 2 processors. There is a program that you can download that is supposed to set it to one processor everytime you turn the game on. You can download it here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bang-dual-processing-buck,815.html. It's the THG Task Assignment Manager. Hope this helps.

I've had a problem ever since I started playing the game. I'll play it for awhile and then it suddenly closes and I lose everything since my last save. Sometimes it goes for quiet awhile, but other times it's just in a few minutes. The past several times I've turned the game on, it's been about 10 minutes. My IT guy at work said without looking at it, it sounded like the video card. My computer is 2 years old and has a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card. I had to buy a video card for my last computer, while playing SC3000. I bought a NVIDIA 3DFusion video card and it seemed to work ok. But I don't remember what model the card is. So I'm wondering which of these I should use, or should I get another one? But first, I guess the question is, is it even my video card, or some other problem? I just reformatted my computer last week, so it shouldn't be cluttered with junk. I think I have 1GB of Ram and 235GB of hard drive space. So any advice would be helpful. Thanks.

I'm trying to get the Beet Farm Version 1 by pmiller19574 and I can't get the dependencies and stuff for it. I've put it in my plugin folder and it shows up on my game, with a big box around it. Whenever I click the link, it says that the file is currently not available. It says that for every link and I've tried it on different computers. So if anybody could help me find them, or just tell me that I'm out of luck and I should delete it, I would appreciate it. https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=11608

Thanks. That's a great page. I found 3 out of 5. Hopefully that will be enough to work.

Ok, I have no idea what you just said. I followed up until turn off AA and AF. I never saw anything that looked like that.

I found an other website some people having the same problem. They suggested that having a dual core processor (which I have) could be part of the issue. One guy said that he turned off the hyperthreading in the BIOS and played for almost 5 days solid and it didn't crash on him. So I'm going to try that and see what happens. Thanks for your help.

Well I have the NAM, but the problem you described isn't something that I do. For instance, last night, I was changing a lot of my one-way roads into just plain roads. I did that for like 5-10 minutes and it shut down. Also, sometimes when I'm looking at one area of the city and click on the map in the lower left corner of the screen to pan to another part of the city, everything is displayed very badly. The roads don't show up and the buildings are not there. It takes it a few seconds to catch up and show everything the way it's supposed to. So I don't know.

If you add in a custom building that has jobs listed with it, does that job total go toward your demand or is it just a number? For instance, I downloaded a Wal Mart and it has around 500 jobs. Does that mean that the workforce went up by 500, or so, or is that just to make it more attractive? Could it have 10,000 jobs associated with it and it have the same affect as having just 50 jobs, if this makes any sense at all?

I'm using the file for farm fences created by suico and I just don't get it. I downloaded the files and the dependecy and can't find it. It says that it's at the end of my park menu, but at the end of my park menu is something I downloaded that is written in Spanish. It looks like different textures and nothing like fences. Am I just missing something? I just don't get it. If you download something that has a dependency and that file has dependencies, do you have to download all of those for it to work? I've been using the STEX for awhile, but I'm still not totally clear on it all. Here's a link to the farm fences: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=4585 Thanks.

Well that's my point. I did download the Castle set, but I still can't find them. Oh well. I'll keep looking. Thanks.

I have this same problem with some of mine. I have no solution, but I would like to know the answer also.

I had to reformat my computer and I saved my region files and a lot of my downloads from STEX, but when I loaded the game for the first time since I reformatted it, it said I'm missing some plugin packs and I don't know what that is or where to get them. It says that I'm missing: Plugin Pack 1975899782 Plugin Pack 170194510 If anybody could help me please, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Yes, I think you might be right. I was going to download those files, but I completely forgot about it. I'll have to do that and then see what happens in the game. Thanks.

Well I tried to put as much from my plugin folder on a disc as I could, but I couldn't get it all on there. So I just figured "forget it" and moved on. But when I loaded the game last night for the first time since, I got those messages. I did notice some things had huge boxes on them, like it was a giftwrapped present. But what really got me was that there was one on the air force base. It's the one from the installation disc, so it shouldn't be bothered. I don't have very much at all as far as a region, so I was thinking that I'll just delete it and start over. I actually would like to change some things, so I guess that's what I'll do. Thanks anyway, though.