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What is the scan tab in the NAM installer for? If you click "scan", and if you get a list of files afterwards, you get a "delete" option. Is there a way to reduce number of the files NAM installs after you have installed the game and NAM? This might reduce the load time. I don't need all of those options.
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I tried to run SimCity 4 with Boot Camp. This was the Steam version of SimCity 4 using 32-bit Windows 7—but 64-bit Mac OS Sierra. That may have been a problem, I don't know. If you bought the Mac version, you can download the Windows version for free. I tried running it with NAM and without, but it didn't seem matter. The problems must be in the game, maybe how it interacts with the graphics card. Unlike Windows, Mac users usually don't upgrade drivers. I couldn't load my cities, the big ones that were crashing, but I could start over, beginning with the tutorials. I found the biggest annoyance was the resolution. Although the Mac version filled my screen, playing at any resolution, the Windows version was limited to versions which narrowed the screen, with large black boxes on each side. I can run the Mac version until I reach around 40,000 people. That's when the crashing begins. At that point I have to start a new city in a new tile. These comments pertain to NAM 37 and NAM 38, which was recently released and which I installed on both the Mac version and Windows boot camp version. NAM seemed to work better on the Mac. But the Mac version of SimCity 4 still has some quirks, such as 1) Fireman are always unhappy. I keep getting messages about them at the bottom of the screen. I maxed out their pay and created more stations, but still they complain and the message never goes away. 2) At some point you get a helicopter for your large medical center. The audio is loud and annoying, and sometimes it never goes away no matter where you are on the map. I tried flying the helicopter far away from the map but the sound was still there. I had to turn off the audio. 3) Another audio problem: I think it's the train sound or tracks or streets being laid down. A loud grinding sound. Occasionally it will remain on and continue even after the streets and track have been laid down. You can't turn off this sound either. I dislike the birds near the garbage, and I wish I could turn them off, but at least I can move away from them. 4) Indestructible buildings. Well, I thought they were. I discovered if you place a larger item on them, like a passenger station, then bulldoze the station, both objects will disappear. Sometimes. Sometimes stations are the indestructible object, and placing a station onto a station doesn't work. A stranded station still registers visiting passengers. 5) Disable the auto align edge option. Otherwise the game will devastate your city. 6) There seems to be a lag when you place a new water pump. Plenty of pipes, everything blue, pumps say they are powered—except the buildings quickly go dark because they aren't getting water. When things go bad in SimCity, they go bad quickly. Your city will be devastated, and it's almost like starting over. My solution is to create a new water pump and let it run briefly before bulldozing the old one.
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Hi there, After many years of working off my old rush hour cd-rom I had a re-install and purchased Deluxe on Steam since I couldn't find all the original CDs... Cut to yesterday trying to place all my many modds, etc into the new plugins folder, every time I open the game it gives me a blank region (instead of Timbuktu) and all the text is missing from the settings menu, regions menu, all text. I tried isolating different modds (yes, it took me many hours!!) and still no luck. Hoping someone else using a Mac running Yosemite has seen this problem and maybe has some suggestions. I cringe at the thought of trying to reload all my old files and unzip every single thing... Anyone have any suggestions or know of a particular modd that could be causing this... anything?? Please and thank you!
