This has the advantage of having a standard structure to the installation, and without using their Galaxy platform, there's a direct link to download (so the game can run standalone without anything like the Origin client). So while Origin might be viable for SC13 or other games which were specifically designed for the platform, in the case of SC4 as a legacy game which EA no longer fully supports, it's probably worth keeping clear of buying it directly from them.Īt this point if you're interested in purchasing SC4 from a digital retailer, I would highly recommend GOG. There's more info in this blog post, which also goes into detail about even the fully patched version being reverted to the borked version in some cases. Then worst still since the executable is layered with their DRM, it's completely unpatchable to do this manually. Since Origin messes around with installation paths, it does make it all more confusing than it ought to be.Īs a word of caution about the Origin version of SC4, as I briefly alluded to in my earlier reply, the regular retailed edition (if not redeemed from a CD key) comes unpatched. Don't worry about mixing them up though, and we can keep this topic here if you're fine with that. Right, so I'm afraid being a completely different game, SC13 isn't compatible with SC4 custom content. Once found, attach that file to a reply, we can then see it's contents and help you further.Īlso, you will find a further file " SimCity 4.ini" in the same location, that would also be useful.
#ORIGIN SIMCITY 4 MODS WINDOWS#
The * part will be the name of your computer, so varies, but using an asterisk Windows will find any matches for the rest. In Windows file explorer, search all hard disks (not Optical Media or others) for the filename " *-config-log.txt". So the very first thing we need to establish is what is going on, to do that, we need to find a Log File, which will tell us. Or, settings from the installer have created them elsewhere. Your computer is preventing these folders from being created. If you don't have these, only 2 possibilities exist:Īll of a sudden out of nowhere, and after 15 years, EA have changed things (seems unlikely). SC4 does always create a special folder in Documents called SimCity 4, within which are subfolders, Plugins and Regions. Question 1) Are you sure it's SC4 you are using, not the reboot of SimCity from 2013, named just SimCity? Of course you may have both, but everything you are talking about says SimCIty to me.
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