danny30

Hi guys, it's been a while since I,ve been on here. I'm just getting back into sim city 4 again now and carrying on where I left off and trying to download some more things for my city. I know this is a really silly question, but when I try to search for specific things that I need for my city, e.g theme park e.t.c using the search function on St Exchange, I don't get any downloads, just topics relating to the subject. Basically how do I search for specific bats? It's weird because I never had an issue with this previously, so either the options have changed, or more likely I am going mad.

Ah okay, what a suprise. what should I do now to fget things back to normal?

Hi all, well I did say that I would be back. Now I am encountering yet another issue. This time when I go to load my region, my main city tile is totally blank however it is showing the population at 670,000 and all the other financial and job stats are still there. It is working and when I click and load the city however. Why would it not be showing on regions view?

Okay thank you. Wouldn't it be quicker to just delete the folder though?

I've already installed that folder though. Can I now delete it?

Quick question, I don't use most of the NAM pieces and have the NAM folder that comes with the download in my plugin section full of transpirt pieces that I don't intend to use e.g rail/road pieces' and many others. Basically can I delete these to free up more space in my plugins?

Update: well I decided to uninstall SC4 and then reinstall it. I uploaded Nam again which took me to the same links as before to update to 1.1.640 and thankfully it has now finally updated. I seem to always come across difficulties with this game, nothing is ever simple. Thanks for the guidance everyone! I'm sure I'll be back on here in the near future with yet another issue (hopefully not).

Okay, do I firstly need to uninstal Nam from my plug in folder before reinstalling SC4, or do I just install the latest Nam over my existing version? I don't want the re installation to affect my existing cities.

Thanks, I can't remember those options when I first installed NAM though, is there any other way without re-installing?

Hi, I am trying to update to version 1.1.640 to enable nightlighting. I initially installed the North American EP1 update by mistake but I then downloaded the European Version (sku2). It said not installed due to duplicate files but did continue and complete the download saying "congragulations, your patch has been updated". I have checked my SkuData folder and it shows that the sku2_European data file is there. I then installed the SC4Update.bat file however when I check the version of the game it still says version 1.1.680 (The game is legitimate). What can I do to get version 1.1.640?

Thanks for all the help guys. I swear, everywhere I go on my laptop I see Sim City documents and files. I will just leave them and try and move them to a separate folder to clean everything up.

Thanks again Nonny. Can I not just copy the regions folder? Also I have lots of City - New City (52).sc4 and SimCity Exception Minidump 2015.02.05 13.05.29.mdmp in my documents folder taking up a lot of space. Can I delete these?

Hi Guys, I managed to get my cities back. I looked through my sim city folders and found another version of my regions folder, this contained my cities on, so I copy and pasted the new york region into my documents/sim city main folder and I now have my cities back. I still don't quite understand what happened, how my regions folder ended up where it did, and how my cities got deleted in the first place. Thank you very much guys, I think I might just have given up on sim city if I couldn't get the cities back. Btw, what is the easiest and safest way to back up my cities? don't want to risk this happening again.

I did copy and paste the regions folder in my my documents/simcity/regionsfolder to my desktop before I followed your steps. Would a system restore work maybe? Also looking at both my regions folder, I can still see multiple files with my Cities name on it. Should these not be gone if I have restored the original regions?

I have made a copy of my Regions folder on my desktop. I have the new york region in both plugin folders and when I load the game I have access to the new york region but my city has disappeared. Please tell me that there is a way to get my city back!