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Hi all and thanks Corina, Ulisse and Kel, much appreciated. I always use it also and love it. Thanks again

Hi Simtropolis Community, Just a quick question, is the IH missing $$$ jobs fix : IH_census_10_78_12_fixed still considered a recommended and/or useful addon? I read though a few guides on the forum and know that it use to be recommended but not sure if that still is the case. I checked certain posts like: -"Index of Useful SC4 Resources - Look Here First"- "SimCity 4 Ultimate Guide" and "Gameplay enhancement List - Index of mods to improve gameplay" - "IH missing $$$ jobs fix (update!)" which I believe might be from a few years ago " but did not see anything posted regarding that. Unless I missed it, if so i apologize. Any help is greatly appreciated. Hope everyone is well. Thanks in advance

Thank you RSC & Null. it's weird and I run the game in WindowMode=FullScreen. Thank you for your input and responses.

thank you CaptCity, its just one of those things. Like am i confused, going crazy or just never paid attention :)

Hi Simtropolis, I think I am losing my marbles. I noticed all of a sudden that my mouse pointer in game is now a circle. Picture is attached. I could have sworn it was a regular mouse pointer (arrow) before. Has anyone had this happen and if so and I am not losing my marbles, How can i change it? And I must note that everything works fine including the cursor in game and its just cosmetic. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read and respond if possible.

Thank you for your responses rsc204, Null 45, Lucario Boricua and again thank you for all the work Simtropolis and NAM put into the game. Much appreciated.

Thank you Null.

Oh and just for you to see I also attached a screenshot of the other city which is much bigger in population isn't effected at all. And all i did was cut and paste the Region File Folder in Documents - SimCity 4 File Folder for this other city. Maybe save file issue also. Thanks Lucario and take care.

Hi Lucario, Thank you for the response and suggestion and taking the time to help out. I unfortunately have those included.Here are the screenshots.Thank you for all your efforts. I will just sum this up as an anomaly or something. Thanks again.

Hi Lucario & Team, I am not sure if this is possible but maybe I could send/share my city tile (I have never shared before so I am not sure how). I started a new city and it seems to be happening again so I'm not sure if sending the file will be of help. Thank You in Advance.

Hi Lucario, Attached are the screenshots of the city. Let me know if these help or if you need anything else. One weird thing I can say is that the game save is Year 124 and the performance/standstill issue doesn't occur until year 126 and continues to happen every year after that. And you may be onto something. When I either dezone or bulldoze the whole city the problem goes away completely. Thank you for continuing to help I appreciate it.

Hi Simtropolis NAM Team, Just a quick follow up question to this. And I apologize in advance for rehashing this subject and only bring it up again as I am Attached to this CITY A current playthrough as I put more time and effort into it and would hope to keep using this city hopefully without the performance issue. I hope you understand. To try and make this as simple as possible I have two cities. City A Current Playthrough smaller population city Large City Tile - With sudden slow Performance drop/Standstill Issue. City B Previous Playthrough larger population city Large City Tile - Without sudden slow Performance drop/standstill issue. -Both Cities use the exact same x86Steam Installation File Folder and the same My Documents SimCity 4 File Folder which inside contains folders: HTTPCache Plugins (w NAM Version 48 Lite installed) London Region Map SimCity 4.cfg. All I am doing is cutting/pasting overwriting City B to City A in the London Region Map File Folder. I hope that makes sense. My Questions are: Why would the performance issue only occur in one city City A and not in City B with them using all the same identical files and folders NAM48 Lite Included? Maybe City A is corrupted from a save on quit error or something and doesn't play nice with NAM for some reason? Maybe there is something I can do to correct this issue? Any thoughts or feedback is greatly appreciated as always.

Wow I don't know how you guys do it. And sorry I didn't mean for you to explain in detail, but thank you it is much appreciated. Your details and explanation helps educate not only me but other gamer's too in understanding how the game and plugins in function. And that is what makes this website and community great. The game runs better with NAM installed and it is "an essential must have for the game". Thanks Again Lucario and Team for the excellent work!

Hi Lucario, Thank you very much for responding your efforts and help is greatly appreciated. I noticed you were also in the video with Ulisse Wolf. That makes person sense as it occurs on specific months. I assume removing the traffic simulator might have an negative impact on how NAM performs? Just asking although I am going to keep everything as is. Thank you very much to you, Ulisse and the rest of the Simtropolis and NAM team for making the game great and enjoyable. Much Appreciated.

**Edited to include the following to save the reader time: After submitting the post I realized that I should mention this in advance in an effort to save readers time from reading the entire post. This speed reduction/standstill seems to occur on a specific fully occupied large city tile and does not occur on the other medium/small city tiles in the same region. Is it possible that a city file could become corrupted to a point that the corruption/performance hit is only noticeable when this specific city tile is played in conjunction with the NAM plugin?** I do appreciate the work/effort everyone here does and I hate to point towards NAM being the potential cause. I could be wrong and hopefully am wrong as mentioned above this could all be potentially due to a Corrupted City Tile and not NAM at all. ------ Original Post: Hi All, for some reason with NAM Full or NAM Lite plugin installed I have continued to experience very slow performance and sometimes a total standstill during in game play. I do have the game installed and played in steam. The plugin is installed in the normal documents/SimCity 4/plugins folder. I play the game set with all the performance recommendations, graphics list, critical mods to install and AMD Radeon Settings per post: And to be sure that I didn't forget to do something I have even followed the step by step instructions per Ulisse Wolf's most recent video which I really appreciate and I thank him and everyone here at Simtropolis for their efforts in making the game enjoyable: During my various troubleshooting steps I have even ran the game with no plugins installed, sometimes with just maxis buildings plugins installed then with NAM installed or only with NAM installed to troubleshoot. I have even tried adjusting the steam launch options tweaks and still the same. I even have the correct ini texts edited, the plugins fix, the 4gb patch, everything known to us, all types of Radeon settings combinations. But despite my various efforts to correct these issues it does seem to be NAM related. Overtime I have done every type of performance combinations and none of them seem to help. Game works fine and fast without the NAM Lite or NAM Full installed. Once NAM is installed performance drops significantly sporadically throughout the in game months.One thing I will add and not sure if this makes any sense to somebody but for some reason the performance drop/pause becomes very noticeable during the specific months of April, August & November (not sure if this means anything or helps). The game/days will slow down and then completely stops to a complete standstill no matter what the speed is set too (turtle rhino cheetah i believe are the play speeds). Sometimes it takes almost 5 minutes for the dates to start cycling again just to have it slow down and stop all over again a few short months later. Has anyone else experienced anything like this before? Are there any type of NAM settings/adjustments that I can make that may help with this? Again I always use NAM lite and never change the default settings keeping them at lowest recommendations. But it doesn't matter what NAM Settings I put with NAM Lite or NAM Full install it continues to happen. Side note: I am very thankful to the Simtropolis Community and appreciate everything everyone does. I have played this game since it's release date and have even been a simtropolis subscriber since 2009. I have used many versions of NAM in the past but more specifically (recently last 4 years) with NAM version (45?) 46, 47, 48. I do appreciate the work/effort everyone here does and I hate to point towards NAM being the potential cause. I could be wrong and hopefully am wrong as mentioned above this could all be potentially due to a Corrupted City Tile and not NAM at all. Any help is greatly appreciated.