Duki

Hey everyone... Here's an update. The good news...the game works...the bad news, I have no idea how I fixed it. It is very likely it might have had something to do with the loading order, I pasted back my newly organized plugin folder, and after a few resets to my computer (yes...I got desperate, and put my trust in the unknown and unseen "maybe-if-I-reset-the-computer-it-will-just-fix-itself" faith)...and it worked. Metalpuritan: I had no controllers or any of the mods/plugins you mentioned in your post installed, but its very valuable that you mentioned that, will keep it in mind. I actually have organized my plugins by function AND author. The reason I have done that is for brown boxes, from the game I will be able to tell what kind of lot/function it should have, and be able to narrow down which file I need to look at. I have done this because sometimes in game I may not know who authored the plug in/mod that should be working.

Hello Simtropolis, Sadly, this is my first post on this amazing site... I am fairly new to the world of modding and plugins, but have a good idea of what's what and what's supposed to happen in theory...obviously not in practice. I've basically been spending the last week researching and reading up on all the wonderful customizations that I can enjoy, how to install them, how to run them...and all the wonderful potential of what can be done beyond just playing Sim City 4, and in anticipation of downloading tons of plugins and mods, I thought I would first clean up my plugins folder of the few downloads I did try...there weren't many at all, a few megabytes. This basically meant rearranging, creating a few folders within the plugins folder in a way that I can track what is going where, as I expected that not long from now I might have hundreds of new plugins. I arranged things by the type of category and lot/mod and sometimes by the person who made it. I had quite a few files land up in an "Unknown Files" folder I made within my plugins folder. Before I did all this I played the game for a few minutes to try and see what was and wasn't showing up and working in the game from what I already had, a few lots weren't showing up, so I shut the game down, rearranged the folders, removed 1 or 2 files I didn't want any longer and downloaded one or two dependencies that were missing...and tried the game again, except it doesn't work! I get the splash screen...then nothing. The icon in the task bar shows up while the splash is on screen and disappears when the splash disappears. I haven't changed my targets for the shortcut, I haven't modified or moved any mods (only mods I have running is NAM and the God Mode Terrain tools in Mayor Mode Mod...that's a lot of M's). Here is where it gets even stranger..."cautious me" decided to back up my plugins folder BEFORE I rearranged it, just in case something funny like this happens...so I pasted it back, and cut the newly arranged plugin folder somewhere else...and it still didn't work! So I have NO idea where to start fixing this problem. I would be very grateful for any help or suggestions as I am totally lost as to what to do. I have some technical details below...in case it's needed, but I am 99% certain that this isn't a hardware issue. Game Version: Sim City 4 Deluxe, Version 1.1.640.0 System: Running Windows 7 Premium, on an HP Pavilion DV6, 6GB of RAM, 64-bit system, Intel Core i5, CPU @ 2.50 Ghz. My sim city folders are based in a My Documents folder, it's always been that way, nothing has been mistakenly transferred to any of the Program Files. Thank you and looking forward to your feedback! Duki