Gamble

Hello there, I have another probleme: My ferrys do not work. They've got energy and water, they are connected to the road, I always build a parkinglot next to them... I tried ifferent altitudes, nothing. What's that all about? Gamble

One cities of my new region has a probleme: The big library was available but I didn't build it for a couple of years of ingame time. Now, it isn't available any longer. The conditions required are all still fullfilled but I can't select it in the menues. The button still exists, but it's grey. I have allready build plenty of small libraries, the city has more than 200.000 people and the ratings of the mayor are quite high. What's the fault? Is it plopable for a periode of time only?

I would like to post a request. I don't know how to do so, Englich isn't the nativ language of mine, you know? Well, let's try: I like to name streets and places. That for I use the signs. The letters written on the ground do look quite well. I can accept the colours used. The grey signs (standing around) are much to big, and awful grey. Primary I would like to use a smaller version. By the way, colours could be changed a bit. Many thanks for reading Gamble

Hallo everybody, here's another question I don't know the answer to: I restarted a projekt I started with long time ago. While watching the regionmap I suddenly realised an regionwide earthquake happening. Everything was shacking a bit. I was scared at first. I started several cities to watch the causes, but nothing was distroyed nowhere. All cities I took a look to where existing and working properly. What is this earthquake all about, what does it want to tell me? Is it a warning of global warming, or stuff like this? I allways offer masses of space to the industry, you know? Or is it a bug? If anybody has seen this before, please tell me what you think of this. Many thanks Gamble

O.K. i don't mind about that no longer. Many thanks to all of you. Gamble

Or does it mean, the mayor used some cheating? I did in that region (sorry). (I do not think cheats are necessary, but for testing and learning it' o.k., I believe.) Possible or not?

Well, yes, make backups. Not only for SimCity.

I think you are right. The Sims do not think of using the ferrys in my cities. I've checked the traffic data in game: There are more roads than people in nearly all the cities of mine at the moment. They all travel by underground (how strange is that), all cities have low streettraffic. The cities can afford the underground easyly, but in fact there is no more traffic to happen on streets an ferrys. I've decided to let my cities grow bigger at first. I'm going to check the ferrys later. No city of my new region is bigger than 60.000 people and all have plenty of roads, bridges and ferry terminals. Certainly you can dance on the streets of my cities at the moment. Highways all around, but no Sim with a car anywhere. At the moment traffic is solved by undergrond, mainly. Thank you all for advice Gamble

Why are the anchors keeping apear in grey? Doesn't it mean there's something wrong? I wouldn't mind if the Sims ain't like to use the ferrys, I'm going to build them anyway. May be they support traveling between the several citys the region got. See you later Gamble

Well, I've got several briges. Is that causing anything at all? The anchors are grey. I've checked that. Does this give you a hint to the probleme I certanly have? (certanly... is that written right? I'm not nativ)

Sims do produce plenty of garbage. That's right. When the probleme is allready caused, and litter is nearly everywhere, the garbage to energy havn't got enough strenth to handle that. Build about two or three of them, to please the sims in future, and sell the waste to any neighbor, till the graph reaches the bottom again. A couple of Waste to energy buildings by their own aren't strong enough to fix it by themselves.

Here's another hint. Tle LE doesn't like the colour-quality set to 32bits. You have to run the computer under 16bit quality. Check out the settings of your systeme. I had this probleme once before.

Hallo there, it's Gamble again, having a graphic-proplem now: After reinstalling windowsXP and reinstalling all software I have in one turn (I bought more RAM, and the system went badly), from now on the graphic crashes after playing SimCity for some houres. I've got RushHour, Traffic-Bonus, windowsXP incl. ServicePack2, the newest directX available at microsoft.de, and a computer that is supposed to manage to run the game fast (2.4Ghz, 1GBteRAM). By the way, the LotEditor crashes after secondes. At least, it seems to be the same probleme: The graphic changes in some white, blue and magenta trash. It even stays, when SimCity is aborded. When the computer is restarted the symboles on the desktop keep to be kidding, but the software underneeth works well (the LotEditior, if crashing, isn't causing the error on the desktop at all, only SimCity does so). When I start the game again, the city I played while the crash happend, still keeps having the probleme, the rest is doing good. The city has to be restarted and to be saved again, and everything is prepaired to wait for the next crash I just told you about. I started out to build a new city, several downloads are installed, but no builing is built, yet. I've learnd about downloaded files effecting each other, but what about a region with nothing in it? What could cause this problem? Is it microsoft-stuff, directX, or some hardware probleme? Did anybody have this probleme before? I seriously need help for this. The game is unplayable this way, and I only tried to make things better by buying more RAM and by getting the system to work smoother. Thank you for listening.

I've found the probleme the LotEditor had. The program doen't run under colourquality at 32bit. I've changed this thing at windows and it works, now. I think I was missunderstood. Maybe because I'm talking bad english. The computer did allready have problemes. That's why it got in hands of professionals. By the way I ordered more RAM and they gave me... half as much as I payed. I reclaimed. frndofyaweh, you are right to say that you have to check everything by yourself, even if professionals are at work. Can you tell me why SC4Tool is still kidding? The computer reclaimes a bad initialisation (0xc0000135) . What does this mean, basicly? My computerskill is low, you know? It's good not to feel alown with this kind of problemes. Gamble

Hi Bluesence, like the others said, it takes time... I mean the sims have tr grow up. At first they are all sick and stupid, but they are young and ready to learn. It takes about 60 or 80 Years to be able to let sims live in skyscrapers. Sims have to get old to earn much money, like in real life. Various old sims can afford various expansive buildings. The young fellows do not. First industry makes the money. Later commercial even makes more of it. Just always remember, don't get blamed of the early raising of your income. For example, if you do not need enough energy to use a large powerplant, you can't buy one and lower the money to maintain. The same about water. Keep good neighbours, and sell them what you can't consume yourself. And let the time go by, as said before. If you do change cities often, it's need to be said, that selling goods to the neighbours brings more money with every year the deal is hold up. Never set a deal to zero, just to the smallest hights available. That's no cheat, is it? Highways are expensive. Use them sparely and late in time. As anybody's mayor ever died before? See ya Gamble

Here I am. I've got no idea which brand my videocard is made by. I've got a Geforce4. The RAM was insalled by professionals, not by myself. I even wouldn't know what to do, might be easy, but I never tried and don't want to break the computer. This means, finaly I can't tell whether anyboby has touched things you shouldn't touch. All other things are doing fine, like photos, chess, internet, expacting everything concerning SimCity4. What do you think, 391MB plugins-folder... ... much to big, or suiteable for the game? Are there limits and frontiers to care about? I will try out to use the LotEditor with less pluged in. Gonna see what comes out. By the way, I found out, SC4Tool is kidding either, today. It can't start because of an incorrect initialistion0xc0000135). What's that all about? Is anti-aliasing an option included in SimCity, or windows? The words anti and alias are similar in german, but the word Antialiassen doen't exist, I will keep on finding out. So long Gamble

Yes, at least it's possible that the graphic-card runs to it's final gate. Don't know, seriously. What about different downloaded buildings, patches, props and stuff like that causing this thing, is it an easly solution, is it crap, at least? I will try out changing the plugins-folder to use the LotEditor, like you said. What about setting the LotEditor using a different folder then SimCity reads out while starting? Is there a file setting this? Would be easier than changing the folders hundreds of times, wouldn't it? It's nasty much work to change all this all the time, I think. And at least: What is anti-aliasing? I'm german, you know? I checked my books, nothing was found. Please discripe a bit, or even give me the germen translation, please. It's something about gameoptions, and so on? Thank you for listening Gamble

Yes, here are some informations about the computer as it is now: It's a Pentium4 2.4Ghz with 1.0GB RAM, windowsXP version 2002, ServicePack2, directX, DVD-dirve + DVD-burner The game: SimCity4, RushHour, Traffic-Bonus UPDATE_SKU_1-5 simcity4_patch1_build242_euro The options: (translated freely, I'm runnig german language) Graphic effects high Cars & Sims high Shadows low Loadingspeed high Texturequality high details high no fog/clowds and no coloured cursor 32 Bit Quality 1280x1024 Graphicmodus: Hardware no sound, no musik The plugin-folder fills several MB, got NAM, the darkbluish-water-patch and plenty of buildings, mods and addons installed, I found on this page. All by all about 320MB. The game used to run, even when using all the plugins. Only the loteditor crashed sometimes (mostly when scrolling through the file- or proplists for long). The system had problemes running other software, so windows got reinstalled. The computer had 512MB RAM only, so I ordered another 512MB. After reinstalling SimCity, at first nothing went right as long as no sound-equipment was installed. I've fixed that. The graphic-probleme is the only one remaining, I hope. The loteditor shows up the probleme the most heavyest way. The program starts, it keeps some minutes to find all lots available. The loadinglist appears. After about three seconds the graphic crashes: Everything shows up as a chaos in white and magenta, and you can't read a line anymore. SimCity holds out one or more houres before crashing, obviously in the same way. The graphic keeps looking that way after ending the programs. The symboles on the desktop do not show up correctly. When SimCity itselve has caused the error, the symboles on desktop even keep kidding when the computer got resarted, but everything is working. When I save a city after crashing, it's needed to load the city I crashed in one more time, and to save it again. Otherwise only this city remains to be showen incorrectly and vague, it looks like me needing glasses, you know. By now, more and more MegaBases are becomming uploaded, here. Are they able to cause problemes like this, perhaps if the old files are not replaced completly? I had no problemes running SimCity even with about 320MB of data filling the plugin-folder, it was working slowly but made no mistakes. You should never change a running system, but I did. As far as all other software isn't effected I suppose the game or the loteditor causes the probleme. For example the chess-software I've got is doing well. What else can I explain, to make you see the probleme? I'm no expert in computer-stuff, just an user. Hope it' usefull, see you later... Gamble

Well, I made it. My hardware wasn't allready finished to be installed completly. I had no sound, and that has broken the game. Isn't it silly? Well, to your file: Flags ----- hardwareDriver = false That sounds cruel, doen't it? Strings ------- sglDriverName = Software sglDriverVersion = 1.0 I would advice to use directX, it's free. Download at microsoft.de or .com.

So: I installed ServicePack2 and the newest directX. Nothing changed. It still don't work. Here's my

I use to do so, too. The MS-photo-pig must be translated by the landscape designer, and by the way it gives you a first impression of what the landscape will look like finally.

I did not have ServicePac2 before, I just took a look, I still haven't got it now. I never had such a problem before, and never noticed the file shown up above. Now, I've found it and it seems to be exacly the same on my computer. I do not have the skill to understand it at all. I'll check whether the ServicePac brings any advance and come back. See Ya

Well...at least I just wanted to pose the same problem. I have done some deinsatalaions on my computer, and after that it started out doing bad things like crashing, or taking houres to get started. The computer got to a workshop and is repaired now. I was running an ould version of windowsXP so I feld free ordering the brand new version. It was preinstalled when I got the computer back. I`ve insalled SimCity4 and RushHour... ...and the problem began. SimCity itself allowes to start the region but not the cities, RushHour, when installed, even not gets the region started. Before the computer got repaired and updated the game worked, the freshest versin of WindowsXP fails. What`s the problem? Systemstuff, Microsoftstuff??