Trekker4747

Thanks, I've already ordered the system and the larger video cards didn't quite fit into the budget. I'm hoping the lack of VRAM, which I wanted more of, can be made up for by the system RAM. Maybe down the road I'll get a better video card and upgrade. But this one on its own already required me to get a bigger PSU, so I figured something about it must be good. Thanks for the help.

System I am getting, I think it should run the game fine, but wanting some "experienced" opinion on this system and how well it'll run Skylines with high(er) setting and using the various map-size mods (not the 81-tile one, just the 25-tile one) to have a large-sized map. Intel Core i7 6700 Quad-Core, 3.4 GHz 16 GB DDR4-2133 RAM 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Windows 10 OS, 2TB HDD, Integrated Sound, Yadda, Yadda.

I download the program from The Exchange but upon trying to install it it set off my anti-virus software which feels the program is malicious. Is it being overly protective or is their a problem with the latest available file?

No, EA, it's not "Homophobes" or "Whiny Madden Fans" that people hate you. Such notions are utterly ridiculous and pretty damn offensive, really. (And I say this as neither a "homophobe" or a "Whiny Madden Fan.") The problem is you utterly IGNORE what the people who buy your games want. For 10 years people have been saying what they'd like to see in the next SimCity game. You took these suggestions and utterly ignored every. Single. One. You produced a stripped-down game -you think a lesson would have been learned after "Societies"- that required an always-on connection. That was the load of it. But in of itself not bad but then you completely botched the launch by using servers powered by geriatric gerbils on rusty running wheels. You fail because you go for tossing any product out there to make a quick buck rather than doing your all to make the best game and best gaming experience possible. I could talk about the problems in Madden as well, but I'll pass as this isn't the time or place. But you need to learn and grow from your mistakes rather than blaming "homopobes" and "Whiny Madden Fans." Instead, blame yourself because GAME fans are tired of your BS.

Well Windows 7 is really called "Windows: Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone I'm Really Vista, Got Kind of a Bad-Rap There" so makes sense it work there as well. It's really a very, very, odd thing since -as I said- this account is usually hidden and there is ZERO reason to ever need it unless you're a super-user confident in everything you do on-line and in Windows or if you're using the computer as a "server' of sorts for a bunch of "dumb terminals" for user accounts. Certainly little reason why your average user would need the "true" Administrator account activated to operate NAM/TSCT so very likely it is, indeed, a programming bug.

You have to unlock the full Administrator profile, which is normally hidden. Open the Start Menu and type "cmd" into the search box (don't press enter.) The CMD program icon will appear, right-click on this and select "run as administrator," type this: net user administrator /active:yes at the c-prompt and hit enter. You should get a message that says the command completed successfully. Close the command prompt and log out of your current profile and there should now be a new Administrator user in the log-in screen (or available to use if you're using classic view.) Right now it's not password protected, click on it and a new desktop should appear. This one is going to be similar to how it was when you first ran Windows or a new account. Find the NAM/TSCT program in the Start Menu and should now be able to make the changes take hold. Interestingly, it's possible to right-click on the program icon and give specific permissions to user-accounts but this doesn't seem to work. Go ahead and go into Account Settings and password protect the Administrator account. There's almost no reason you should ever need to be in this account and you certainly shouldn't spend any meaningful time in it and you MOST certainly shouldn't websurf on it. It actually allows changes to be made to the computer without the UA controls, warning prompts or any other of the "protections" Windows has to prevent you from screwing things up. Passowrd protect it and only use if you need to make changes to TSCT or in those extreme cases where you try doing something and you get the "must be an administrator" prompt. (It's happened to me before plenty of times before learning about this hidden account I had no idea what it meant.) Really, after making the changes in TSCT you should probably re-deactivate this account (":/active:no" in the above instructions) but there is some degree of "use" here even if you don't go into TSCT very often. Just never, ever, really use this account unless you really have to in order to make a change and even then make sure you know for sure on the changes you're making and what you're doing. Seriously, there's no safe guards here so messing around too much would be like opening the hood of your car and just mixing all of the wires around to see what will happen. This is what I did and got it to make the changes in Windows Vista (can't speak for later versions of Windows.)

Well, good thing I'm the only user of my computer, then, and thus an Administrator. Ok, apparently you have to run it as a FULL Administrator, which is sort of dumb. So I found a way to unlock the (usually hidden) Administrator option, get into NAM and make the changes which it allowed to take hold. What a crock. Is there not a way to do this under a regular account with Administrator privileges?

So no updates, suggestions, hints, help?

Same here, checking background processes is one of the first things I did and still got the messages. Also waited a few minutes for things to "settle down" and for everything to get on the same page. Still get the error message.

I'm having a problem with the latest version of NAM's companion program "Traffic Simulator Configuration Tool." I didn't have this problem with a previous version and just recently upgraded. TSCT Version: 1.3.3 (1715), Simulator Version 2.4.1. When I installed the upgrade it auto-ran and I made the changes I wanted to made, saved, and exited the program and then ran SC4. Well, some of the changes I made were... extreme. I charge Sims to drive on tiles of roads/rails rationalizing it as akin to a "personal property/licensing tax" on vehicles. Anyway, in old TSCT I had these figures set at a fraction of a cent. When I re-entered the values I mis-entered my figures by a factor of 10-100. Instead of charging fractions of a cent I was charging whole cents. City income skyrocketed well over city expenditures. Too much. So I exit Sim City, go back into TSCT to fix things and when I go to save I get an error dialogue box telling me I cannot save because Sim City 4 is currently running. It is not. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

My computer surpasses the minimum requirements (but not quite meets the recommended requirements). The only thing I'm "behind" on is really the memory which I'm at 3.5GB (I have 4GB installed, but 32-Bit OS and all.) The game is sort of... choppy running. Not really smooth on moving the camera or placing things. The graphics settings are pretty much at medium settings (silly, considering my video card surpasses the requirements) any thoughts/suggestions?

s Once I managed to get in to play and really dig into it I'm a but more ready to make some say on this game. I'm still really, really, disappointed in it on many levels. That said: 1. The game doesn't seem to be running to well. I've got middling graphics settings even tough my new graphics card should surpass the requirements. I have double the recommended RAM. The only issue is possibly not having the newest processor but it's a quad-core which I would think should be able to do what needs to be done to run this game well. It's likely it's not, but I dunno. The game installed and it seems to think it can play but it's a bit "choppy at times. (Issues on playing over a cloud instead of locally?) 2. Although after some play I've not quire filled up too much of the map I can already see the restraints on the horizon and I really wish there was a mini-map to quick-click to a location in the city to get too. 3. I hate having too much open space. In SC4 you could easily fill in open spaces with parks, grass plots and even trees to give the city a more complete and filled look. Here? There's just a lot of random stuff laying around in fields of openness. 4. It's hard to tell what Sims want. I've got some with protesting that there's too much disease (yeah, I agree. Being a mortal being susceptible to disease sucks. Deal with it) they have a clinic with an ambulance bays and a patient room expansion. You've got all the hospital you need right now. There's just a lot "missing" in this game. Which, again, is just a shame. I see myself still playing SC4 for some time to come.

Is there anyway to turn off the "motion blur" that occurs when moving the camera? It's pretty distracting, giving me motion SICKNESS and am pretty sure is causing some lag.

No, sorry, you release a product it should work right out of the box. Sure, I can see bugs and issues cropping up that need to be fixed down the road but the person who just paid for your product should be able to sit down and use it right away. This is like saying you buy a new car and they tow it to you on a flat-bed truck, drop it off and leave. Wow! You have a new car! So you get it in it, try to start it and then it doesn't start. Turns out the company forgot to put a starter in the engine. Oh well, should have waited to buy the car until the company knew the problems they have with it. No. Sorry. I should have been able to buy this game, install it, and played it right away. Not have to wait to be able to play it because EA sucks at life.

Really, if individual city sizes can't be too big due to hardware limitations (make sure we cans each, individual Sim walk from point A to point B, that's important!) than at least, I dunno can we make a city directly adjacent to a previous one like in previous versions of regional play and have the cities interact?