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Title: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: deecee on December 25, 2009, 09:24:02 AM
okay - i opened my city and this snow is creeping across the whole thing!  i only have two cities in this region and the other city doesn't have this problem.  it starts at the top left and is going diagonally across the screen.  recently i have installed two additional gigs of memory - which hasn't caused any problems anywhere else.  could that be the culprit or is it something else?  take a look and let me know.  thanks!  DeeCee

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Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: CasperVg on December 25, 2009, 09:25:00 AM
There's an easter egg in the game that makes snow appear on high altitudes on Christmas day. That could be culprit :)
Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: mightygoose on December 25, 2009, 11:34:34 AM
lol - yup that christmas snow chestnut....
Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: thingfishs on December 25, 2009, 08:03:42 PM
I remember the first time this happened to me, maybe three Christmases ago, and I was pretty worried myself until I figured out what was going on. :)
(for those that don't know you can make this happen deliberately by changing your computer date to the 25th of Dec)
Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: Haljackey on December 26, 2009, 02:32:26 PM
I have yet to play SC4 on Christmas...

I really wanted to do so yesterday but I forgot.  Ah well, I could trick my PC into thinking its Dec 25, but that's too much effort lol
Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: Andreas on December 26, 2009, 03:05:51 PM
Well, you can always use the "snow" cheat from the Extra Cheats DLL. ;)
Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: MandelSoft on December 27, 2009, 01:34:31 AM
I didn't have snow on the 25th. Maybe because I have the dutch version. Too bad :(
Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: tag_one on December 27, 2009, 02:40:27 AM
That's odd, I've the Dutch version as well and I do get the snow.
Title: Re: Help! Snow Invading My City - Screenshot Included
Post by: Andreas on December 27, 2009, 03:52:32 AM
The Maxis snow will only appear at a certain height - if you were using an all-flat Dutch map, the altitude probably was too low. ;)