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Perfect pathfinding helps the commute problems a bit, but to really enable cross-city commuting, I find that I really need the 10x commute. The NAM install doesn't let me install both, so I was wondering if there is a way. Thanks.

I have two large tile cities next to each other. One is $ residents suburb, the other is dirty industrial. The distance between the establishments are just over 1/2 of the large tile size, so I didn't think it would be a problem for commuters. They are connected via a ground highway. I develop them both switching between them, but neither of them develop past 10-20 buildings. Some of these have the no job signs, so I check my Ind city and shows no demand for more Ind. In my R city I see the demand for R$ (2000) but no dirty Ind. And my new R zoned areas don't develop. I zone Ind in my R city and they don't develop at all (no demand). I'm stuck. Why are my cities not developing? It's odd that there is demand for something that doesn't actually develop. Is the commute distance too far away?

I reinstalled it twice. Oddly, this time it doesn't run the second time but in a different way: the bridge image splashscreen just sits there and the cpu uses 50% (since I have dual cpu) doing nothing. I have to end the process. I didn't install ANY plugins or patches.

I'm having this odd problem where if I quit SC4 and try to run it again, it won't run. I get a "sc4 encountered a problem and needs to close" error. The error signature I get says "ModName: ~df394b.tmp". I don't know what this file is and searching for it doesn't turn up any results. Any suggestions for a fix? As a temporary workaround, rebooting the PC seems to "reset" it. But if I try to run it twice, it fails on the second try.

Thanks everyone. The STEX does indeed have some amazing buildings. This shall be a whole new Sim City for me.

When I used to play SC4 a few yrs ago, I noticed some annoying problems Maxis would not fix (traffic, overcrowded elementary school, rewards not always being received, hospital related problem, etc). Did they ever fix these issues, and if not what are some good user created mods that fix these problems? I don't want any unrealistic modifications, just those that fix things and maybe add the much-needed building/infrastructures of some kind. I read NAM was great for traffic. Any other suggestions?