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Struggling with launch from Steam, attempted mod with NAM 47
HeyJD posted a topic in SC4 Bugs & Technical Issues
Good day to you, First, I apologize for how frustrating this is for some of you. I'm equally frustrated. Hopefully, I can explain enough to share my challenges, which inevitably might be a multi pronged issue. I installed SimCity 4 December 25, 2023 from Steam. I have logged about 9.5 hours so far with only one crash playing in the tutorials. The money making tutorial after about an hour or few worth of play crashed yesterday. I didn't think much about it. However, I've become more curious about how to build a proper city. In as much, I learned via YouTube that there is something called a NAM 48 which would solve some crashing issues as well as improve options for game play. Eventually, I found the https://www.sc4nam.com/ website. I attempted to follow this step by step. I couldn't figure out how to find the compatibility as suggested from that site in the https://www.sc4nam.com/docs/getting-started/installation/#version-compatibility. However, I guessed that being I just installed it from Steam, It would be up to date. Now, I originally have had the game installed on a spinning 4TB hard drive - a secondary drive from my system boot drive. Steam has been installed on the OS boot drive which is solid state. As such, I thought going back and deleting all the files I could find and reinstalling this game on the 4TB hard drive would be fine. I had tried installing the NetworkAddonMod_Setup_Version47.bat file, which I couldn't seem to figure out the correct step to get it to execute with the SimCity 4.exe file. So I resorted to the NetworkAddonMod_Setup_Version47.jar file, which did seem to work. However, still, when I click play, not much else happens. The "play" icon in step goes to "stop." After a few moments, it returned to the green "play." I've attempted to" Verify the integrity of the files." The only thing which seemed to work was moving the game/installing the game to the boot/steam drive itself. However, I am afraid if these NAM files have caused failure with the game on my 4TB drive, will it cause failure on my main boot drive preventing me from playing the drive all together. I attempted adding various boot commands in the steam general "Advanced users may choose to enter their launch options" , i.e "-CPUCount:1 -CustomResolution:enabled -r1280x720x32". I tried my native resolution at 2560x1440x32. I tried part or none of these commands. I'm stumped. I'm asking for help to find remnants of the "4GB Patch" file, which I had downloaded from https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371. Additionally, I'm looking to remove the NAM 48 files the the .jar file and the .bat file installed. Ultimately, I would love to have some fun with this game. And I'd like to enjoy it without bugs, "CTD"s and other issues. Are there any details which would assist in my recovery here? As of right now, I've deleted everything I can search "SimCity" on both hard drives. But reinstalling this onto the secondary 4TB spinning hard drive does not work any longer as it once did. The game is off of my machine as far as I can tell.
