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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Sim City 4: No-Nonsense Metropolis
 
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odiv
Jan 12, 2003

 Looks that way, yeah:

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All of these packs include NAM and the other basic fixes detailed later in this post: if you want to play and not mess with mods, simply take your pick, unpack it, drop it in your plugins folder and enjoy.

Thanks very much for this. Great OP! I just installed NAM by myself, but I think I'll replace it with the Old-Fashioned pack.

I bought a boxed copy of this a few years ago in a garage sale and hearing so much about SimCity lately had finally convinced me to install it. I've only really played the original though I did buy 2000 from GoG.

odiv fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Mar 8, 2013

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odiv
Jan 12, 2003

 Hm... I had the Network Addon Mod in the actual Program Files directory in Plugins. I deleted that and extracted the Old Fashioned pack into Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins and am just getting a black screen now instead of a game launch. :(

I'll move the pack out and try to launch and see if that's it.

edit: maybe it's the hardware mode? I'll try deleting the terrainmods dir next.

odiv fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Mar 9, 2013

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odiv
Jan 12, 2003

*PUNCH* posted:

Give it a minute or two. OldFashioned has 6700 files the game needs to load; the screen will be black while they're loading. It's annoying, I know!

I'm contemplating DATpacking the next version to prevent this, though people seem to enjoy the moddability. For the record, I'm going to release the next one when a new stable NAM release is out - with any luck, NAM 32.
Wow, you weren't kidding. I waited it out and it loaded after a solid 4 minutes. At least I know what the issue is.

I can just go ahead and DATpack it myself, I'm guessing.

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odiv
Jan 12, 2003

 Bah. I can't get the Old Fashioned pack to work. Either hardware or software with and without the terrainmods directory, I get sent to desktop.

If I have only NAM installed I can use either hardware or software. I guess I'll try Grand Fromage's or maybe just throw in what's considered "essential" by myself.

edit: Hey! Grand Fromage's pack works! Now to figure out how to play. I tried to make a highway to start and I'm confused as hell.

odiv fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Mar 11, 2013

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odiv
Jan 12, 2003

ImPureAwesome posted:

I'm having issues with the OldFashioned pack as well.

Game starts just fine, but it crashes when it tries to load into a city plot.

Yeah, I ended up just giving up on Old Fashioned.

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