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Are you using "Hardware Rendering" under the Graphics Options?

Are there any mods that stop the tree growth cycles? I hate it when entire forests suddenly disappear. They grow to their max height and then go back to the 'sapling' stage. I just want them to grow to max height and make sure they stay there permanently.

Slow down. You are all going too fast. You make unwarranted assumptions. The dump tells a lot of stories. The machine is adequate and the game is valid. The gentleman is running the downloaded game (1,1,641) so he would have to probably redownload it. It is important not to put your situation on top of the query. I would: 1. rename the plugins folder to plugins.old 2. start the game and pick a different region 3. run a city long enough to ensure whether a crash will occur. If no crash occurs, further investigation is merited. One should not take a sledge hammer to an ant. It may truly be necessary to identify the missing plugins in the city in question, and if they cannot be found to abandon that city. However, while everyone makes his own decisions on this, backups are always necessary. Computers are not immortal, nor are their components, and especially disk media, including CD/DVD's. I backup everything monthly, and if I have been using the game heavily, I backup the user section as needed. My backups are on an external HDD and I have a second HDD which is mostly off line as a backup of my backup. If nothing else, you can make backups to rewritable DVDs. But DVDs are cheap compared to the work you have to do to recover, so write your game folder (only the one in your documents area) to a DVD once a week. Don't be picky. Write the whole thing. You only need to keep the current one and the previous two. Ah its the downloaded version. I see. Thanks for pointing that out.

How about a little please and thank you? I honestly have no idea where I got them. Those are some of the many thousands of plugins I've had for 7+ years. I would just try searching the STEX or SC4Devotion LEX for "triangle parks." If I remember correctly that is their in-game name. So I'm sure a quick search would pull them up. EDIT: OK, my curiosity got the best of me. I did a quick search and wasn't able to find the ones I have but did find They are the same size just look different. Thanks for your comments everyone else! New update coming soon, as I have just FINISHED college!! Got lots of time on my hands now! Jason Congratulations

Where did you get the traingle parks?

Make sure Plugins folder is empty. Uninstall again. Then reinstall Sim City 4 + Sim City 4 Rush Hour. Then apply all the patches. SHUT DOWN computer. Wait a while then turn your computer back on. (From personal experience the computer needs to "re-compose" itself). Now run the game again. I know it is a pain to do this all over again, but does the game work at least? And in the options tab, is the game running on "software"? Can you at least put the graphics options on "Low" and remove "shadows", "waves" etc.? Does it work?

Sorry for the big pictures. But some of the spruces in the picture are back again to the "sapling" stage after being fully grown for some time. Anyway I think the more correct term is tree life span. They actually die after some time. I think that these trees are from CP (correct me if I am wrong). Does anyone know how to make the trees grow to "adult" and then make them live forever?

Nice bus! Where did you get that?

Yes I updated but to CP's 2012 version but that's not it. I am not sure if it has anything to do with that prop pack. Note: I had a look again and I'll post a pic if it happens again. I'm not sure who's tree pack it is (It's pretty old and there might be an updated version somewhere). It's just the pine trees that suddenly reset to "sapling" stage and regrow after a while. All other trees are "adults" or grow to "adult" stage and stay there permanently.

It's not trees on lots. It's the Mayor Mode Ploppable (MMP) trees. I think it's CP's trees. But Im not sure.

I dont use the defaults. No problems with the seasonal trees. But some uploaders still include trees with growth cycles. It takes decades to grow to full height and then resets to "seed" stage then grows back. I just want them to grow to full height then just stay there forever.

The problem (thankfully) is not as bad as SC3K where the entire city abandons after nearly everyone in the city dies of old age. If you dont want to demolish property especially if its a big skyscraper you can always lower health funding and it will kill off the older population. (This is just a game! In real life you would be in jail forever. If you feel guilty about this, go hug your grandparents after.)

Where did you get all these amazing W2W buildings? Some are from xannepan/Porkissimo but how about the rest?

One of the most realistic landfills ever. Where did you get the warehouses and the seawalls? Very realistic. 5/5

Where did you get the people, cars, and trees?

Water mods, Rock Mods, NAM, RHW, realistic trees, great BATS and all those hours people put into them. I mean look at this: http://www.simtropol...d-pine-forests/ (Yan007, Corsica). Can EA do a better job than what the SC4 community has done... for free?Can EA truly convince us that there are real incentives to buying an SC5?

It's possible to have night lights during the day. I have done it a few times but by accident. How do you do it? I sometimes just reload a city and nightlights are on during the day. It's really beautiful. (To Moderators: I searched around the forums and didn't get anything. If there's a topic on this already, just put this post there. Thanks)

Yes... as long as you dont touch the day night switch. But newly constructed buildings won't have night lights, even if you reload. Not sure what causes it to happen but it's the most beautiful glitch I have seen. If I have time I might post some pics of my downtown and industrial areas with night lights during the day.