onerinconhill

So I downloaded the Steam version of SC4 since Origin had a deal for $2 code, and I keep having a strange issue with the game. I downloaded the game, installed the NAM, and everything was fine. Then, I added about 300 plugins and dependencies to the plugins folder, and I got an error where the game would start, the EA logo wouldn't show up but I'd get the Maxis and SC4 logo, and then when the regions screen shows up it's blank and shaking, but if you click on the regions tab, its all blanked out and the game crashes. I went through all the plugins to determine which one would be causing the issue, and it worked again when I deleted the NAM files. I tried downloading a few other plugins and the issue would random occur for different ones, but now the NAM causes it to crash every time. Is the amount of files in the NAM and other plugins causing this to happen? I read about people needing the Jdatpacker but I only saw it as a result for something called Aspyr (I can download it but doing the JDK runtime and figuring out how it all works is not my first choice) The strange thing is in the regions folder, the game creates multiple blank regions and tries to duplicate the Timbuktu region as well every time this happens, so I delete the duplicates before relaunching it. I made sure any duplicates of the mods were deleted, although I do have the hole digging lots and it looks like the newest NAM has them as well so maybe a custom installation without those things might prevent this from happening...the wineskin wrapper installation is a bit difficult to get to work properly however. Anyone had any of these issues, or any thoughts? I know the origin copies for windows had lots of errors, but I downloaded a steam version and just used an origin key, so I figured my version wouldn't have any of those issues.

So I downloaded the Steam version of SC4 since Origin had a deal for $2 code, and I keep having a strange issue with the game. I downloaded the game, installed the NAM, and everything was fine. Then, I added about 300 plugins and dependencies to the plugins folder, and I got an error where the game would start, the EA logo wouldn't show up but I'd get the Maxis and SC4 logo, and then when the regions screen shows up it's blank and shaking, but if you click on the regions tab, its all blanked out and the game crashes. I went through all the plugins to determine which one would be causing the issue, and it worked again when I deleted the NAM files. I tried downloading a few other plugins and the issue would random occur for different ones, but now the NAM causes it to crash every time. Is the amount of files in the NAM and other plugins causing this to happen? I read about people needing the Jdatpacker but I only saw it as a result for something called Aspyr (I can download it but doing the JDK runtime and figuring out how it all works is not my first choice) The strange thing is in the regions folder, the game creates multiple blank regions and tries to duplicate the Timbuktu region as well every time this happens, so I delete the duplicates before relaunching it. I made sure any duplicates of the mods were deleted, although I do have the hole digging lots and it looks like the newest NAM has them as well so maybe a custom installation without those things might prevent this from happening...the wineskin wrapper installation is a bit difficult to get to work properly however. Anyone had any of these issues, or any thoughts? I know the origin copies for windows had lots of errors, but I downloaded a steam version and just used an origin key, so I figured my version wouldn't have any of those issues. Thanks!