Datpacked water tower freezes game

[thingfishs]

I have a CC water tower which, when datpacked, causing the freezing of the game. I noticed on two consecutive freezes that the same icon was highlighted (though I didn't actually select it). The item was the riveted metal water tower by jmyers from his Aquifer Water Tower set: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1469
I threw away my datpacked folder and loaded the game again with all my plugins. When un-datpacked all (including the towers) worked fine. I tried to datpack my plugins again (with only the riveted metal tower included from the set, as it's my favourite) but when accessing the water menu the game once again froze. Any ideas?

[RippleJet]

Which version of DatPacker are you running?

[thingfishs]

file version: 2008.0.0.0

[RippleJet]

Hmm, too bad...

The reason I asked, was that the Anniversary Edition has a bug ("Nasty Side Effect Bug"), which came from it sorting the files.
UI files are known to cause havoc if reordered and placed after each other in a dat file...

Thus, till wouanagaine returns and sees this, I can only recommend you not to datpack files having custom queries,
most notably files called "essentials", such as "BSC Essentials.dat", "NDEX Global Essentials.dat", etc.

[thingfishs]

OK, thanks Ripplejet

[thingfishs]

It appears the jmyers tank was a red herring after all. Just now my game has frozen again when accessing the water menu (with no jmyers tanks in my plugins folder, datpacked or otherwise) This time the mill water tower by onlyplace4 is highlighted. Underneath that is a SOMY tower that is also a recent addition... I will keep trying to find the source of the water problem.

[jmyers2043]

Hello Thingfishs

Thank you for sending the link to this thread. I didn't notice it yesterday when browsing through the messages.

I hope you update the thread when you narrow it down further. 

the riveted metal tower ... my favourite

Thank you. That means a lot. It's my favorite too.

- Jim

[bgsnck]

Hello. Though this is my first post, I have something to add here. I have same problem with two of bripizza stations - http://www.bripizza.net/sc4/cgi-bin/lime/lime.cgi?staA and http://www.bripizza.net/sc4/cgi-bin/lime/lime.cgi?staplus . Both hang up game, if I dat pack files inside zip on mouseovering icon in menu. I checked this with clean plugins, except for cam datpacked into simcity1.dat and modified simcitylocale.dat to show kanjis. i also found it is safe to dat pack and use DAMN with hiding to plop them.
Hope that helps.

[RippleJet]

modified simcitylocale.dat to show kanjis.

SimCityLocal.dat or fonts.ini (within SimCity_1.dat)?

Ja tervetuloa! Aina hauska nähdä kotiväkeä!

[bgsnck]

SimCityLocal.dat or fonts.ini (within SimCity_1.dat)?

Ja tervetuloa! Aina hauska nähdä kotiväkeä!

SimCityLocale.DAT inside English folder. I followed ebina's guide.
Paljon kiitoksia!

[thingfishs]

update: So far it looks like I've found the problem, but I'm wary about saying that now.
The aforementioned Somy water tower, which I didn't specifically download but was part of an apartment set of theirs: http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/somy000/ (it's the item in the first photo), seems to be the culprit.
With it out of my plugins and the jmyers tower back in and datpacked, I am able to access the water menu again
I'll let you know if there's any further issues...

[BarbyW]

I checked the water tower and it has Japanese characters in the Item Description and Item Name. If you can change those two items to English in Reader and try again it might be a useful exercise.

[thingfishs]

I changed the item & description names for both the water tower LOT & desc files, and have datpacked them, along with the jmyers tanks and everything else.. The result? Success, thanks Barby
So a big lesson learnt, I'll know to look for such issues now.

[BarbyW]

Glad to hear that worked, thingfishs. I shall be putting those lots through SC4PIM for posting to the LEX shortly.

[xxdita]

bgsnk, I've checked the EN (BriPizza) files, and found the same issue as with SOMY's, Japanese characters in the Item Name & Item Description. And the same fix would apply.

[BarbyW]

I have updated SOMY's Danchi apartments and posted them to the LEX.

[Une_ame]

What will we do without Barby   




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