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wasnt exactly sure where to post this. My questions is regarding ralphealninjas RCI ploppable final on th STEX, everything works fine except that when i plopp residentials the "?" which shows job transit never works. on the lot it ALWAYS says "Workers/Commuters: none" yet sims are living in it and they NEVER leave (aka none of my plopped RCI residentials buildings have gone abandon). when i plopp commercial buildings everything works. sims (growable residential buildings) can travel to these lots and work. is there a patch to fix this issue with sims living in plopped residential buildings having no jobs yet the building doesnt go abandon nor do the sims move out NOR does it give me the "no job" icon...

on my large map city with 25k population, industries and commercial... about 80% growable and 20% plopped, tons of trees and tons of flora. my city takes no longer then 20-30secs to save, i never counted it but i know it never takes like a min . Gateway laptop NV53 series Win 7 64bit home premium AMD athlon X2 II dual core M300 2.0Ghz 4Gb ram ATI Radeon Mobility 4200 HD with 256Mb dedicated. running SC4 in 1366x768x16 window mode, Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode and "run as admin" checked. latest updates/drivers for entire system and also running latest version of AMD's dual core optimizer. also my plugins folder is less then 500Mb so im not using that many plugins

the ploppable industries do product jobs, and growable residential sims do infact travel to them to work. the only thing the ploppable industries does not work is the freight truck trips.. when you query it it doesnt show the freight truck trip.....

if after years of playing someone didnt know how to do a diagonal road... then should probably play something else. you can do it without the shift key too, just drag your road uh, diagonally..

thats basically what i got too, my city is 27yrs old and i've only plopped a few residential buildings in certain areas that i wanted that area to look a certain way and though they never find work, they never abandon or nothing, the residents always stay. i wonder if it has to do with the fact that im using the super demand mod though??? in any case thanks for the infor.. i do believe that these plopped buildings also add to population, reason i say that is i had about 13,000 residents in my city and for the hell of it i went and started plopping a bunch of high rise residential buildings not only from the maxis library but from user created bats/lots and sure enough my population jumped to 18,000. i of course destroyed the buildings cause i was just experimenting with something at the time.. at least the commercial and industrial plopped buildings provided jobs and growable residentials sims actually do travel to them to work there!.

so odd, for some reason i always sore it worked back when the RCI plop mod was released.............at least my plopped residential buildings and houses dont go abandon (which is another thing i dont understand, how do they not go abandon if they can find a job?, i can be several years and the sims are still living in the house if it "?" it. oh well.

I got a bunch downloaded over at sc4devotion.com .. i couldnt find none on here. i have peanut farms, tobacco, mellows, corn, wheat.. etc..

Originally posted by: Askee I run with the following shortcut path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c START "high priority sc4" /high "C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -Introff -CustomResolution:enabled -r1440x900x32 -f So that's 1440x900 With no intro and it starts in high priority. My .exe is also modified so SC4 only uses the first CPU core, which seems to have mostly fixed the random CTD's, yay!quote> how did you modify the .exe file to have it only use one CPU core everytime it starts up? the only way i thought this can be done is after starting up simcity 4 then going into the tast manager etc... and i also dont understand the "high priority" part..

does anyone know how to get simcity 4 to be optimized and utilize just 1 core on a dual core laptop?

nevermind.. i figured it out. my native screen is 1366x768, no higher. i was running the game 1280x1024, that would explain why it couldnt do window mode. i'm just gonna try a customer resolution. now that i remember too, it was working before when i had it set to 1024x768.. it all makes sense now lol

can anyone tell me where this building is on the STEX or anywhere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe it use to be on the STEX years ago cause i remember downloading it like 5yrs ago, but i cannot find it for the life of me. [Merged into Can't Find it? Look here!]

anyone figure this out for windows 7 64bit? i have tried all suggestions and nothing works, it always goes to full screen no matter what!. i even tried multiple times deleting the short cut and redoing a new one and trying over and nothing works.

thats right, i started to build a city after i finally downloaded the modds i needed (NAM etc..) i built a T-intersection with some residents and industrials... well... sure enough after moments, i started to get houses being abandon, when i "?" it it said abandon due to poor commute time, im like WTF? i check the commute time chart and sure enough my commute was like less then 2 mins, but why did i start getting abandon houses and why was the commute "high" to the sims when they were only 2mins according to the chart? when i installed the NAM i think i selected the Z simulator since im also using the Rual highways so i couldnt use the "better pathfinding" etc. does anyone have any clue has to whats going on?

wow, you can so tell i havent played this game in 5 years LoL.. thanks for the help.

Originally posted by: Rionescu If they complain of commute time, it could mean that there aren't enough jobs. That's why you'll never see abandoned due to unemployment.quote> aaahhhh, i think that might be it. when i started this little town i didnt put any industrial zones now that i think about it, i layed down just R's and C's, i was going for something different thats why lol. im using the latest version of the Super demand mod. i was just kinda shocked that the sims just didnt cross the street to work at the shopping centers that i had layed down, yet if you "?" the shopping center it would be like "jobs: 256/300" and i didnt even have 300 sims in my town LOL! figure that one. was it because these sims needed to work in industrials and now commercial?

i have had zero problems running SC4 on my new gateway laptop . running windows 7 64bit version. maybe it had to do with the process i took to install it? updated EVERYTHING on the laptop first including any and all possible drivers and windows update. installed SC4 reboot put SC4 in compatiblity mode for windows XP service pack 3 and also put a check for "run as administrator" installed SC4 update reboot installed rush hour reboot installed rush hour update then finally SC4RH. runs flawless. if for whatever reason after installing anything if a pop up comes up afterwards from windows saying "this program did not install correctly. reinstall using recommending settings" make sure to always select this. i did put it in window mode and i did like it that way but i had to change the resolution of the game cause my taskbar was over lapping the bottom portion of the game so i couldnt see nor click the options button on the bottom when your in your city. so far i've played the game about 3 times for about 10mins each, just to test it out. now i finally got the essential mods i needed so im going to test it again, but so far so good.

Havent been on here in over 5yrs but I've wanted to get back into SC4!. i use to run SC4+RH on my old computer with Windows XP home, Intel Celeron 1.7Ghz, 256MB ram with a Intel 845G graphic chip(64mb video ram). I know horrible specs, but the game was playable to a certain extent, i had almost everything on high and it looked great (i would just avoid scrolling and would point and click to where i wanted to go) My question now is I am going to get a new computer (finally) and im aiming at a Laptop. Im wondering how well SC4 will run on a Gateway with Windows 7 Home Prem, AMD Athlon 2 dual core M300 2.0Ghz, 4GB ram with a Mobility ATI Radeon HD 4200 (256MB delicated video ram). ... these specs are well beyond the required specs for SC4, HOWEVER i tried running SC4 on my wifes laptop the other day (applied all upates to game, windows and drivers) and it was almost unplayable, somewhat worst then what i remember from my older 1.7ghz celeron computer. Her laptop specs are: Windows Vista Home basic, 1GB ram, Intel Celeron M 1.6Ghz, Intel 945G graphic chip, i would have thought with her laptop the game would have run smoother then my older computer but it wasnt the case. I posted this over at techical but didnt get much help. Please help. thanks

you mean as i add modds and fill my plug ins folder? lol. i already know which ones to download and its not that many. i'll have a total of about 25 add ons in my plug in folder. but dont jinx it

Im hoping the good folks at simtropolis can lend me a hand, I last was on here like 5yrs ago and was a huge SC4 player, i was there when modding first started and remember the release of ralphealninjas RCI ploppables final which was huge!!!! I really want to get back intoSC4 and even going to pick up a new laptop, however after 5yrs this website has undergone massive changes!! of course "searching" still yields no or wrong results. My question to the community is: What Modds, Addons etc. do i need!? the only one i know to get is the NAM (and the NAM essential i think?). but i've seen pics of other peoples cities that are simply beyond amazing!!! highway systems that i never seen before! i think its called rural something rather.. but i have (for the last few days) tried desperately to find what Modds and Addons I would need, is there anyway someone can point me in the right direction or provided the links? i dont care about the Building addons but i do want all or most of what is consider to be "a must have" , for example is raphealninjas RCI ploppables final still around cause i want that too! and i remember modds to increase industrial jobs and increase demand.. etc..etc.. I wish i would have writen down all these modds i had 5yrs ago LoL! the work that you have done with modds and addons are simply beyond this world, i also seen someones cities where the ground texture and mountains looked AMAZING!!!!!!! and whats up with Trees that change during the season? HOLY F! thats amazing!. big thanks in advance p.s. i still see dirk has my Sears Tower still up, cant believe the amount of downloads, wow.

dude, holy crap!!! i picked up the AMD gateway last night, stayed up until 4am doing all updates on everything!! defrags and system scans and the whole nine basically, uninstall certain things etc..etc..etc.. i installed SC4, updated it, installed RH, updated it and ran that baby, wow!!! the difference between this and my wifes laptop is MASSIVE! ... i opened up one of the tutorial cities and just started using god tool to plop as many trees as i could, scrolling WAS SMOOTH!!!!, im running it on the 3rd resolution with all settings at high except for shadows(med) and building draw speed(med).. i cant believe how well its running, i mean yea its only amedium size map but it still had a small city in it and i had tons of trees with the shadows on, at this setting my wifes computer was given me 2 frames per second when scrolling. very pleased with this computer.. now to spend the next 2 days downloading add-ons and modds LOL.

thanks no it wasnt Blank RCI lots.. it was the RCI ploppable lots, he made all 560 lots that come out of the box of SC4 ploppable(they show up on the landmarks menu in order) .. it was a very very long list hahaha, i remember having it before. the lots were 100% fully functional. it was great. i will check those other ones out too, just wish they were organized slightly better