mattdc

hi, sorry for the late response, as you can imagine i've been busy over christmas and havn't been on the pc. anyway. i tested the transfer speed to-and-from my pc to the vista pc with a couple of different files and the transfer speed is only about 3.50mb/s.

on the xp computer the game itself takes 5-10 seconds to load, a region takes about 3 and a moderate city takes 10-20. indeed thats what surprises me the most, the regions i'm using for lan have no cities in. one entire region in 360Kb and the other is 22mb. i think i'll delete them and start fresh

your right again, yeah it took ages. loading a region might take 5 mins and loading a new city takes a few minutes. i realise its bound to be slower, but i dont understand why its being as slow as it is over the network, as both computers are quite fast and network transfer speed it pretty good. although, the game is a bit of a cpu hogger. even on the region screen. even so.. i blame the vista pc lol how do you find the loading speed and game performance over the network?

no need to apologise. i really appreciate all your help. for some reason it created the link in the windows\system32 folder. anyway, i moved it out and put it in C:\users\VistaUser\Documents\SimCity 4\. the link seems to work fine. when i click it it opens the xpusers regions folder. but now when i load the game it just hangs on startup. any ideas?

ok, thanks again seespotsplat ive done as you said and the link was created, according to command prompt. do i need to do something else? in game i cant see the shared regions from the xp computer on the vista computer. i've tried running the game on the user i normally use. which as far as i know the link was created for. i also tried running the game as the administrator. but no luck. any suggestions? thanks again for all your help so far. Matt

Ok SeeSpotPlat thanks for your second reply im having problems i have shared the regions folder on the XP pc. so its at \\xpcomputer\Regions and have 'alowed users to change my files' successfully tested by creating a folder from the vista pc. on the vista computer im typeing in command prompt. ive tried various commands and it just gives me 'you do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation' ive tried; mklink C:\Documents and Settings\vistacomputer\My Documents\SimCity 4 "\\xpcomputer\Regions" mklink C:\Documents and Settings\vistacomputer\My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions "\\xpcomputer\Regions" mklink /D Regions "\\xpcompter\Regions" am i supposed to type the command into cmd? can you type in exactly what i should type assuming the vista pc is called 'vista' the user being called 'vistauser'and the xp comuter being called 'xp' and the user being called 'xpuser'. many thanks, Matt

thanks Mcduell and SeeSpotSplat for your ideas. they both sound quite promising. i'll give them a try and get back to you soon. the only problem is that i only have vista running on 1 of the computers. mine is running xp.

Originally posted by: tungston The region folder in the progam folder is a backup for the default regions.quote> if you try what i mentioned above, the game will save new regions and citys to this folder. allowing you to use it like a the normal directory in the documents folder

thanks for the reply. there is one thing you can do. if you move/delete the simcity folder from "my documents" and make a file with no extension with the same name (SimCity 4), the game will create a new save game folder in the sim city directory where it is installed (eg: program files/maxis/sim city 4/regions) the game will then use this as your normal save and load directory. i have tried this and it works. maybe you can elaborate on this? perhaps there some way the files could be redirected some other way? as its not impossible to change the location. so if theres is some way to choose or force it otherwise, i just dont know how to. thanks, Matt

Hi all, i'm wondering how this can be done. i assume it must be possible in one way or another. i would like to do it so the region is in a network drive so 2 computers can access it. then each have its own city. i dont intend to try and have the 2 computers access the same city as obviously that would just crash it or make some sort of error. any help on this subject would be greaty appriciated. thanks, Matt