Shortsonfire79

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This was an amazingly in depth tutorial. So many steps just for a sunken highway though, crazy! I assume this won't be answered, since it says to PM CrazyChicken, but I'll just throw this out here: How would you go about doing angles and turns for your highway? Great work!

Alright, updated my game, ran the game, and still, it crashed the same tile. [code]Exception time: 07/22/2011, at 06:13:58. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 3648 (0x00000e40). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.638.0 System version: Windows NT 6.1 System memory: 4096 Megabytes total, 4096 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x0050bd60. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x00104d60. Registers EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 0018fc5c ESI: 0c913874 EDI: 00000000 CS:EIP: 0023:0050bd60[/code] It didn't quite get to 1.640 though, I got it from SC4 devotion Thanks gentlemen.

Oh, didn't know this was still going. I have nightlight, actually. I stay on day time, but I have it for sure. I read that overwhelmed thing before I started downloading all the plugins and stuff, it was a great thread! I don't understand why updating it now would affect it. It worked for a week before now, without the update you mention. I don't recall adding any new ploppables. I know I have a power station that looks like a giant pink flower (its quite common, I've seen it around). And I recently (a day or two before the crash) added a car-pedestrian ferry, which is standard in the game. I have the two first airports, both stock. What I DID recently add though, was the convention center. The standard one. That was the last thing that I added. I've also come to realize I can't delete the city tile. Well, I can. Since I can't load the city, I can't use the detonator thing to blow up the city. So I would have to delete the city from the region view, which would leave a black city spot. Then I would have to import a blank city tile from another reloaded region. I'm just going to leave it like that.... I think. Thank you gentlemen.

It didn't work. Oh well, thanks for everything. Should I leave the CPUCount:1 there, or remove it? Thanks Jacksunny.

Thanks Jacksunny. When I load the city, it now lasts for about 2 seconds, and the city is in play mode, but nothing is clickable at the moment... I moved all the plugins to a separate folder, and all there was was a popup that said that there were two files missing or something, I couldn't read it quick enough. Heres the exception report: [code]Exception time: 07/19/2011, at 12:13:09. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 4696 (0x00001258). Version information: Application/module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe Application/module version name: SimCity 4 Application/module version: 1.1.610.0 System version: Windows NT 6.1 System memory: 4096 Megabytes total, 4096 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x0050bb50. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x00104b50. Registers EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 0018f8b8 ESI: 0af4e4f4 EDI: 00000000 CS:EIP: 0023:0050bb50[/code] and here is the dxdiag thing. On a side note, I imported the region to my macbook pro, where I also have sc4 deluxe installed, and the other city tiles work fine, where this city causes my game to crash. I think its just because something got screwed up with the city tile, possibly a faulty save or something...

Okay, seeing as my post was moved to the bugs section, I read the pinned thread here. So I'll be trying to update this post as best as possible ASAP. Unfortunately, that thread is from 2005, so the link that has solutions to crashing doesn't lead anywhere. Still don't know the specs of my computer, I'll try to figure out how to get that soon though. I'm running SC4 deluxe, with NAM, and a whole bunch of other plugins. (no more than 20) Like I said before, I've been playing for a week, where the first day I installed all the plugins/mods/bats that I wanted, and since then, SC4 has been running smoothly. I haven't installed anything new (yet) and seeing as this crashing thing is a problem, I may not at all. When my city loads, I get about 3-5 seconds of gameplay, before the screen blacks out, and brings me to my desktop. This actually started happening on my second city too, but I got about a half hour of (unsaved) gameplay in. Where would I be able to get this exception report? I assume plugins are not the problem, but later today, I will remove them all and see if that helps. (hopefully it doesn't screw up my game though. XD)

So as of last night, the main city that I play in has started crashing virtually right after it loads. I'd suspect its my computer, but the computer is brand new (about 1 month old) so it couldn't be that. I turned down all the graphics to low, and turned off clouds, waves, and UI translucency, (which make the game quite terrible to look at) and it still crashes. I've tried loading a new region, and importing the city, and it still happens. So its just that single city tile. I wouldn't blame it on downloaded content, as I've been playing SC4 for about a week without problems now. Its the biggest city I've ever made (pop just over 100k) and I'd really appreciate not having to delete it/start over. And the city itself isn't 'good' enough for me to just let it go on its own. If you need any other information, I'd be happy to provide it, though if you need comp specs, you'll have to point me to where I can find them, I'm playing on a PC, though my regular computer is a Mac, so I'm not that well versed in Win7 operations anymore. Thanks for the help, if you can provide any.

Not true. Low and medium wealth Sims are quite happy to use the monorail. And the monorail is much faster than el rail (especially if you have the NAM); you'll get a lot of use out of it if you put in enough stations. Fantastic. Great to know. When A Nonny Moose says to avoid commuter loops, does that mean that there should only be one connection to another city? I don't understand what hes getting at. Thanks.

I did this with a couple of my cities, but recently I heard that they're expensive for your sims and only the wealthy will use it. so I've started the process of replacing them with elevated rails. Connected with bus-sub-el rail stations, this is fairly efficient...as far as I know. Goodluck

Thanks Jj. I know this isn't the place for introductions and whatnot..so I'll keep this short. I've downloaded the NAM, but that was way too hardcore for me...I wasn't using many of the things, and the 'high' rails and roads and stuff were giving me a headache...so I removed it. (some of the things were nice..but it was easier to just give all of it up...) I spent a good while working on this... I'm working on making my own region right now, and hopefully I'll have a city dedicated for a port...and a PC to run the military ships (my Mac doesn't support it. D:)

I have always loved ships...space ships, naval military ships, large cruise liners...etc... After playing the Sim City series for nearly 8 years ( I think?) I have never brought any of my cities to the level of skyscrapers (fail..I know). Recently, last week, I was pointed in this direction from a friend, and have since downloaded many many plugins. This thread has really inspired me to step up my game and make large seaports (and eventually get a skyscraper..) so keep the amazingness flowing, and maybe some of you could post up some plugins you use? I have a handful of PEG's and SOMY's, but my rapid downloading has given me many things that I have no idea what does what, so if you feel like being kind, I wouldn't mind at all! First post on this forum by the way. In the most important thread of course.