Captain Bong

Cheers - I remember seeing that before, but I neglected to bookmark it. Have done so now.

I have the IH fix already, but the others are new to me. Thanks - will check 'em out.

Sweet - looks like that did the trick for all of them. Thanks again - I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to think of checking on GitHub. It's all starting to come together! And it looks like I picked an excellent time to get back into the game Who'd have thought SimCity 4 would be entering a golden age 20+ years after release? Now, if I can just get the hang of highway junctions... And I guess I might have to install that slope mod too... Are there any other "essentials" I've overlooked?

I confess I did not - in my defence, I'm suffering from documentation overload from the NAM and other things! I installed that C++ whatever-the-hell Redistributable thing and now I see text files are being created in the Plugins folder - and the camera mod at least is now working. So thank you both, and my apologies! I have to get on with some non-gaming stuff for a bit, so I'll test the other DLL mods later and report back.

Suspect you missed it, but I'm playing via BootCamp, so in Windows 10 (just on Mac hardware).

Hey there. OK! So, I recently got back into the game (having played a bit back in the day), thanks largely to a YouTube channel called Rob's Red Hot Spot. Getting things set up properly, navigating the NAM etc has been/continues to be a challenge (talk about a steep learning curve!), especially since I'm a Mac user playing via BootCamp, and I find the whole Windows environment... counter-intuitive, let's say. Also, YouTube guides to mods/features are typically years out of date. And, uh, the search functionality here seems... well, it appears to be useless. But, I was doing OK - or I thought I was. Now, however, I've discovered I can't get DLL mods to work. I've just downloaded/installed three - Submenus, 3D Camera and Region Thumbnail Fix - and no dice. It's as if they're not actually in my Plugins folder. And yes, I have the required 1.1.641.0 version of the game (from GOG). Oddly, I previously installed two other DLL mods - SC4DBPFLoading and SC4Fix - and I know the latter at least is working, as the taskbar icon says "SC4Fix r7". So, I don't get it. My guess would be that another mod is causing a conflict, so here's what I currently have in Documents/SimCity 4/Plugins (I'd love to take a screenshot, but trying to figure out how to get a screenshot out of that bloody Clipboard thing had me wanting to throw my laptop at the wall): Maxis Original NBVC garbage (a folder I created to move some SC4Lot files out of the top directory) NBVC_GarbageProps Network Addon Mod Nuclear plants (again, I created this to clean things up a bit - it contains three DAT files from a Nuclear Plants mod) PEGPROD (contains four subfolders, _Resource, CDK3, MODs and Refuse Relocation Kit) submenus (contains submenu-essentials.dat and some subfolders, also containing DAT files) Cap Lifter.dat IH_census_10_78_12.dat Locales.dat Mayor_Sign_Menu.dat memo.3dcamera.dll memo.submenus.dll memo.thumbnail-fix.dll OperaHouse.dat SaveWarning_Disable_Exit_Quit.dat SC4DBPFLoading.dll SC4Fix.dll UI_Compact.dat Maybe there's something glaringly obvious to seasoned mod users or even just the average Windows 10 user that I'm overlooking. I'd appreciate some advice! (I also encountered another issue when experimenting with the NAM's Flexible Underpasses yesterday - which I suspect is entirely unrelated, but you never know. I found that when deleting subway-based roads, I couldn't always get every tile to delete, and then, when modifying the terrain, I'd get a crash to desktop. Since I'd saved after creating the test underpasses, I wound up having to vaporise the city to resolve the problem! No biggie, since I hadn't got that far with it, but still.)