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So, it's a different game than what we've come to expect from SimCity. But I'm playing and enjoying it. It's not going to occupy a lot of my time. The thing about this game and others like it is resisting the urge to make a bunch of in app purchases. The games are really cleverly designed. You wouldn't shell out $10 for this game on the front end. But over time you might slowly shell out that much and more with in app purchases. The way the game is designed is to make it easy to play and build a city and get it going...then hit you with things you need in app purchases to get around. Oh, have a nice city? Guess what? Now you need fire stations. And schools. And police. More or less all at once. Very clever from a business perspective.

What is the large building in this picture  Love your town!

Thanks!

I love these buildings. Every one of them. Question: I use the buildingplop cheat a lot, and I can't ever find them...any idea what file name they appear under?

This is fantastic.  I'd also like to know where you got the waterline pieces.

Same problem as shown here I presume... Rerun the NAM installer and be sure to check the cooler color texture for the elevated rail alternate implementation in the custom installation. This will wipe out your current NAM folder, and the faulty warm color texture file Yep. That was it. I haven't played this game in a while. Is there a link to a manual for the new NAM? I'm struggling with bridges and highways, etc.

I have a question about the elevated rail. I installed the new NAM and since that time my elevated rail is strangely multicolored. Is anyone else experiencing this? I may be unrelated. If so, anyone know what it might be?

I might have gotten it! Reading around the web, I saw that someone had a problem with Simcity when their soundcard was not plugged in. Checking my soundcard, I saw that no device was plugged in. So, I plugged in external speakers and....voila!!! Haven't actually tried gameplay yet. But it's letting me load regions now.

I'm going to try the last suggestion. Pretty frustrating, because I've done everything I've done on other machines and it's just not working.

Well, it's Timbuktu that the game crashes on. It's frustrating, because I've gotten this game to work on another computer with Windows 7.

Just FYI, if you've purchased the Simcity Deluxe pack that has the other games in it, those discs don't work. I've been through that. The best way to get a working version of the game these days is download it.

Okay, figured out how to change command line options. Nice to get rid of that intro. Heh. Now the game crashes when I try to load a region At leasst we're narrowing things down!

I actually downloaded and installed a new copy. It looks like I'm okay on the drivers. Not sure where to check the graphics control. How do I change the command line options?

ive been through that thread. Didn't find anything helpful. Anyone know how to handle the access violation error code I'm getting?

Okay, so I'm having problems, too. So I have an HP laptop. Recently purchased. I downloaded SC4 Deluxe off Amazon and it runs fine. But I don't like running the game on a laptop. I just purchased a new HP desktop, Windows 7, 6 GB RAM, 2.8GHz The game crashes at the EA Logo. By the way, it's not letting me install that update! Here's the exception report: xception time: 05/04/2012, at 01:08:35. Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION. Current thread ID: 2848 (0x00000b20). 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: 1.1.641.0 System version: Windows NT 5.0 System memory: 1024 Megabytes total, 1024 Megabytes free. Exception module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe. Exception address: 0x00876c03. Section:Offset: 0x01:0x0046fc03. Registers EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00cd8114 EDX: 00000b20 ESI: 00cd9414 EDI: 00cd9414 CS:EIP: 0023:00876c03 SS:ESP: 002b:0018f9e4 EBP:0018fa3c DS:002b ES:002b FS:0053 GS:002b Flags: 00010202 Loaded Modules Address Size Module Path ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x00400000 8159232 SimCity 4.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe 0x77780000 1572864 ntdll.dll C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll 0x76b30000 1114112 kernel32.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\kernel32.dll 0x768a0000 286720 KERNELBASE.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll 0x762d0000 655360 ADVAPI32.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\ADVAPI32.dll 0x763e0000 704512 msvcrt.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\msvcrt.dll 0x75120000 102400 sechost.dll C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll 0x76040000 983040 RPCRT4.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\RPCRT4.dll 0x74e60000 393216 SspiCli.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\SspiCli.dll 0x74e50000 49152 CRYPTBASE.dll C:\Windows\syswow64\CRYPTBASE.dll 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Yeah, I'd love to have that stadium. Love the big building in the last picture, too. But if the elevators were ever out of order you'd have to sedate me and carry me down those stairs.

Really beautiful gardens. That's lots of work. I'm also curious as to who's playing the role of the queen to be.

Thanks for the link Evillions. The city I'm building now is based on the map of Buffalo, and it's sort of a Buffalo/Detroitish kind of city. It's not all bad, there's some pride left by the riverfront, but there's lots of space downtown. I like to go sometimes to Bing Maps and browse those cities on the bird's eye map view. What really catches your eye is all the parking lots and open spaces. Not a lot of city journals based on cities like that.

Very well done. One thing I don't often see in city journals are the razed spaces and urban prairie. I really like the cement with grass growing in between. Where could I find that? I'm doing a beat-down rust belt city and could sure use those.

I hate to ask--but what are the two skyscrapers in the 3rd pic down? Great city, btw.