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  1. Hey there, I am just bamboozled by the same thing. The argument line in Lutris and inability to start my profile. Wouldn't it help if the profile would be set inside the confined wine system created by Lutris for SC4?

  2. sc4pac (Mod Manager)

    outdatedSIM reviewed memo's file in Tools

    The slick interface, blazing fast execution and unrivaled stability contribute to an amazing experience. The program does exactly what is advertised. I have 728 packages installed + terrain and GUI installed manually. The stability of the game is flawless. Automatic dependency resolution was unheard of and can only be compared to a well maintained major Linux distribution. Exceptional work, thank you!

  3. Turks and Caicos Beach V

    outdatedSIM commented on Barroco Hispano's file in Graphical Mods

    So to use I just sculpt terrain? Or is there a position in the submenus?

  4. Got a quick SC4 question?... Ask here!

    outdatedSIM replied to City_Slider's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion

    It's on another drive where I keep all hacked stuff, permissions look fine. You think some Windows Defender put it's hand on it?

  5. Got a quick SC4 question?... Ask here!

    outdatedSIM replied to City_Slider's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion

    For the life of me my region does not want to load upon game start, always getting Timbuktu. It's just Bananaland V2 renamed to my custom name, with same name put in region.ini in the Name = line. What am I doing wrong? Another annoyance is the game always asks about reconciliating edges although I always tick not to ask again. Cheers. EDIT: I tried qutting out to region and quitting game, did not help either

  6. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    Thanks, glad it is confirmed 👌. If any testing needed I've made profiles in sc4pac to do it.

  7. Got a quick SC4 question?... Ask here!

    outdatedSIM replied to City_Slider's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion

    Much thanks for your explanation. I am now running dgvoodoo and hw is on. The issue was I wrongly understood the SV instructions and refrained from using the Textures B .dat file. It's working now and I am so happy.

  8. Got a quick SC4 question?... Ask here!

    outdatedSIM replied to City_Slider's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion

    I am trying to figure out where to place the terrain mod Sudden Valley in the load order so that it doesn't CTD when opening a map for city. I am using sc4pac, but SV is not available there - I need to install it manually

  9. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    Hey, I went step by step and isolated the problem happening after installing CAM with sc4pac. I have no extra terrain, trees, water, just performance and game enhancements from Ultimate Guide + NAM. After installing CAM I get straight into beach placing crash. Did you manage to figure it out by any chance?

  10. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    Beach placing crash is back. Now I have only mods installed from SimCity 4 Ultimate Guide, even removed manually isntalled Sudden Valley that was manually insatlled. Question: Do I need to actively install anything from here: Ultimate Guide Dendency List ? Do I maybe need to install all of those? Or is sc4pac sourcing dependencies as needed? Attached is the Exception Report, can anyone tell the culprit? Thanks! SimCity Exception Report 2025.10.22 19.26.39.txt EDIT: Started from scratch, making backups and so far beaches work fine.
  11. How can I remove an unwanted profile from sc4pac?
  12. Finally it is clear. Thank you. @memo I am confident , that at least a shortened version of these instructions should be provided to users in the GUI as a pop up or anything. The concept of the main \UserDir and subdirectory \Plugins inside is not intuitive at all for someone trying to get into it. Great work with combining all the mod sources, the GUI and what's underneath! EDIT: Finally it is working. Thanks again!
  13. Hello, I've been trying to set up my profile for a long time now. @Ulisse Wolf and others were very kind to help me out on discord but it's still not working. Currently I am trying from scratch and put my profile in X:\GOG\SimCity 4 MOD\SimCity4\MAIN2025 The game is installed in X:\GOG\SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition\ Shortcut made manually from SimCity4.exe, Target: "X:\GOG\SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -UseDir:"G:\GOG\SimCity 4 MOD\SimCity4\MAIN2025\" Tried also: "X:\GOG\SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -UseDir:"G:\GOG\SimCity 4 MOD\SimCity4\MAIN2025" Installed only SC4GraphicOptions to test if it works. Dxwrapper set up, log ok, resolution set in GraphicOptions mod, intro set to false, loading game I see intro and low res. What could I be doing wrong? Also: Any suggestion for a simple mod that'll make me see if the profile works straight after booting the game to reduce troubleshooting workload will be helpful, thanks.
  14. Hi, I was installing the mods with SC4PAC following instructions how to create profiles. I created a profile MAIN and placed it in Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins\, so it's Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins\MAIN now. I install mods, but I have read here that DLL plugins should actually land in \Plugins, not in \Plugins\MAIN Question: What could I be doing wrong? Question 2: Do I have to manually move them to \Plugins as it is with the INI files - or should they be in \Plugins\MAIN? I have the impression that they are actually not working.

  15. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    @Ulisse Wolf much obliged, I will double check about the VC 2022, but they were working fine before I started fresh with sc4pac. I think I have my profile folders configured wrong in sc4pac, I asked in the respective thread already. But now my dlls do not land in \Plugins, but in the profile subfolder. Will see what answer I get there.

  16. sc4pac (Mod Manager)

    outdatedSIM commented on memo's file in Tools

    Hi memo, I wanted to name my profile MAIN. So I created a directory \My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins\MAIN. During installation of sc4pac I read to choose a separate folder for each profile, so I did not take \My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins, instead I took \My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins\MAIN - is this correct? Now in Dashboard I see: Is this fine like that? My DLL plugins are not being installed in \Plugins, but in \Plugins\MAIN currently.
  17. Hello, I am yet to find an answer to the question, where should I actually place my Profile folder? Should it be in Documets\Sim Cuty 4\Plugins, game installation directory \Plugins, somewhere else, or does not matter?

  18. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    @Ulisse Wolf thanks for the video. I am watching and can you explain: 1. The mods shown in the video, like GraphicOptions, they are available in SC4PAC. But they don't work correctly when installed from there 2. Should I set my SC4PAC profile in game's installation directory Plugins, or in Documents? 3. Should I install all the mods from the video manually, not using SC4PAC? Thanks.

  19. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    Thank you for looking at the file, removing the opera fix. How can I tell if I'm running in hw rendering? I am using dxwrapper and SC4GraphicsOptions. However the latter works only partially, which is weird. It gives the desired resolution (3440x1440), but does not make the game intro disappear, doesn't do fullscreen (need to -f in desktop shortcut), nor does it create any log file. EDIT: Also I am now getting this outside of the map, maybe it will give some more ligt on the rendering question:
  20. Thank you for helping out. I was searching for documentation like this, yet I did not find any on my own. I will go through it as it will probably answer many more questions.
  21. Hi, I tried this as well. It currently is too. But the quesion is: should it be deleted from the mod folder My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins\MAIN\150-mods\null-45.sc4-graphics-options.1.3.1.sc4pac\ ? For now it is in both places, as the other INIs of other mods, as that is how I understand the SC4PAC instruction: to copy it, perdiod. INI file attached. It does currently not change to fullscreen, unless I put "-f" in the desktop shortcut. Same goes for no-intro, it's not working. It does set the resolution however. No log file is being created. SC4GraphicsOptions.ini
  22. Hello. One instruction is not entirely clear to me, example: "into the root directory of your Plugins folder [...]" - I did, and the game intro showed still despite me having set the intro to "false". For instance I added the -intro:off parameter to my desktop shortcut however, game intro doesn't show. This makes me suspect, that the INIs have to go to the Profile root folder, not Plugins root folder. Or another possibility: I have it all in my Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins instead of game's installation directory. Maybe that is the issue? Any advise appreciated, cheers! EDIT: I tested with the INIs inside root Profile folder, same story. EnableIntroVideo=false in SC4GraphicsOptions.ini does not disable the game intro as well. When I still had my game modded manually it worked. EDIT 2: it did not work in games's install folder Plugins, now it started to read the settings off the Profile's 150 folder directly instead of main Plugins folder as advised in the SC4PAC message. So is there a lack of clarity in the SC4PAC message that should say "move the file" instead of "copy the file"? How can I make the plugins actually work with the manager?

  23. Is There a Good Seaport Mod for SC4?

    outdatedSIM replied to Omnius's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion

    I will probably wait, will take some patience till my game works as intended. Currently with NAM, CAM and the CDK3 files all installed via sc4pac I get CTD when placing beaches and tryna figure out why. So before I seriously roll with a city this needs fixing. I'll be checking under your link.

  24. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    Hi, I am trying to find any documentation or guide that would explain SC4PAC, for instane "Add to Plugins explicitly" and the star system. I am not touching any of it. Just when installing a plugin I need to click the button so it installs. But then some of the stars are "explicit" in the list, some are grey. I don't understand the mechanics here. https://pastebin.com/yTME2cVN - this is my current situation as in exported json file. Question: As I am new here (but extensive experience with using hundreds of mods in TES games and many other games), I do not yet understand the language I think. If by maxis beach - you mean the standard/vanilla beach, the answer is: I did not actively install any beach mod, besides potential changes made by sudden valley or any other mods I installed with SC4PAC like NAM, CAM and the rest I've mentioned. EDIT: or maybe would you recommend I follow ... And use CAM, ofc no SPAM then and I install the mods from there? EDIT 2: If it helps: I tried placing maxis seaport and it works fine

  25. Placing Beaches causes CTD's

    outdatedSIM replied to PlutonianEmpire's topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues

    I get the crash too. I am totally new and green. I installed SC4PAC, NAM, CAM, CDK3 files, optimization, graphic, CPU and QOL DLLs. Ended up with 62 plugins. Game starts fine on Bananaland-V2 region. Building roands and govermental stuff was fine, zoning too. On placing beach it's CTD. I have Maxis Prop Names and Query Fix installed.
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