nico511

I'm new to SC4 but I've put about 80 hours into the game over the past month or so, and I've played a decent amount of Cities Skylines. So far I am enjoying SC4 a lot more, because the traffic isn't ridiculously difficult to manage once you pass 25k lol. Anyways, in this city my advisor is whining about the avenues being "congested". This city is 60k in population with a 100K+ city in the tile directly above it. I'm using NAM. I really dislike highways (I'm not good at designing them efficiently), for the most part I have been building cities with just roads and streets. This city and the 100k city I put some extra planning into it and did a few avenues. I'm boring and I like grid cities but to combat congestion I put at least one bus stop in every square (at the intersections) and I have train lines running horizontally every 3-4 squares or so. (third picture) So at what point do I really NEED highways? I'm only getting a few congested spots here or there, I mean it is a city after all traffic is never going to be perfect right??

Positive update -- I troubleshooted with someone on the Discord and we figured out that it was the NAM download that was causing problems. It must've corrupted or something, and I was uninstalling/reinstalling the plugin using the same download. I got a fresh download from ModDB instead of Simtropolis and that solved the issue. Why the game wouldn't load with NAM after the computer was turned off for a week, I'll never know... Interestingly enough bhmantan, when I had tried what you suggested (uninstalling the plugin and reinstalling with just the bare minimum packages) it made SOME difference, as in the game made it to the city loading screen instead of being stuck on the Region screen. Though it still would never load. With a fresh ZIP file downloaded from ModDB the game loaded with all the components installed so it was definitely the mod/files causing issues and not my computer. So weird!!

This is interesting, as I am playing on an older laptop (maybe 7-8 years old?). It's possible. But what would be the cause for the game working one week ago, and suddenly not working with no files or computer settings touched?

I’m not entering for the first time, these are cities I had previously worked on seemingly not working out of nowhere. Like I mentioned, the game worked perfectly fine when I played a week ago and now it doesn’t. It would load in just a couple of minutes. I have let it sit for 10+ minutes with no progress. In fact I haven’t even used the computer at all since I last played and it started happening today when I started the computer again. I have the newest version of NAM. I did try uninstalling and reinstalling minus a few components from NAM to improve on load . Now it actually gets to the city loading screen but it still freezes. 10+ minutes later and nothing. I don’t have all those fixes installed but i’ll try that. I don’t see the reason why the game worked a week ago and now a week later with no changes it doesn’t, and NAM is the only issue. The game works fine without it.

Everything was working perfectly when I last played the game (~1.5 weeks ago) but now every time I open the game, the region loads time but when I try to load a city the game freezes (not responding). More specifically the in-game hourglass pops up before immediately going to my computer’s loading system and Not Responding. It stays stuck on the region screen. I have not touched any files or launch settings for this game since last playing. By all means it should work because nothing on my computer or the game files has changed or been touched. The only mods I have are NAM and PROG farms. When I remove NAM the game works perfectly. I have the 4GB patch and have repatched and freshly reinstalled the mod several times. Any ideas on what could’ve happened??