railroad bug

[secretformula]

It is a good idea, I organized all my plugins this past weekend, and then susiquently dat packed them. It makes my game run 2x faster. Another thing I would recommend is putting all props and textures into the program files/maxis/sim city deluxe/plugins folder, as due to the load order these will load first.

[x-ten]

please give me link to programs for clean sc4 plugins folders and datapacker

[Rady]

will depart the game?

What do you mean by that?

You should REALLY clean up and organize your plugins folder!!! I organized the folder in that way that I have the creator name (e.g. Simgoober, SFBT, ...) as the first level in the plugins directory. Underneath each creator's folder there go the plugins, each one organized in a seperate folder again.



This way it's much easier to find certain plugins later on.

[x-ten]

it will take about 5-6 hours

2,1 GB plugins after organized

[kassarc16]

Another good program is DoubleKiller (Website here). It's good at finding and removing duplicate files for you.

[Rady]

please give me link to programs for clean sc4 plugins folders and datapacker

Cleanitol to check for dependencies or files that are outdated:
http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=97
For this tool to use a cleanitol file needs to be provided by the creator of the custom stuff you downloaded

Datpacker to pack your plugins
http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=26

Donwload & Installation Catalogue to organize and manage your plugins
http://docrorlach.webng.com/sc4t_dic_main.html#topofpage
This tool will give you enhanced means to install & manage your plugins

[x-ten]

datpacker
MFC71.dll not found

and thanks very much for doublekiller

What need to do to work startup manager? He write error that my sc4 not install.

[Rady]

datpacker
MFC71.dll not found

I discovered that all of the dll's mentioned in the readme need to be in the windows\system32 directory. Open your explorer and search your local drives for the mfc71.dll. I foudn it in the \ahead\lib directory. I just copied it to the windows\system32 directory and that was it.

[x-ten]

thanks for help. after download and added mfc71.dll to datpacker directory. he sucsessfully startes

why in my plugins folder bee a 2.13 gb of plugins but after using datpacker was to 3.4???

[bob56]

If i'm right, DATPacker does not delete the unDATPacked files. You need to either

A: (recommended) go through the folder and move the original files to another spot outside of SC4, (in case you need to recover them later)

B: (Not recommended, if you do this you will not be able to recover the originals, especially since only certain things can be DATpacked):Delete the originals.

If I'm wrong please correct this.

Hope this helps!

-Grif

[x-ten]

now in my folder 16 dat files

and another problem



how to run startup manager?

[Andreas]

The SUM reads the SC4 installation path from the registry. It might be missing in your case, so you'll either have to reinstall the game, or add the path manually. It should be located in HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Maxis\SimCity 4\, stored in a text string called "Install Dir".

[x-ten]

So end of tree bug, after reorganized
Thank you, bob56

[Rady]

why in my plugins folder bee a 2.13 gb of plugins but after using datpacker was to 3.4???

Just one more thought: If you gonna use

> Wouanagain's Dat Packer and the
> Download & Install Cataloogue (DIC) by DocRorlach

this will provide an easy way to switch between the packed and unpacke state of your plugins: The DIC has a "swap" option that changes your plugin structure. 'Cause if you want to add more plugins later and keep your folders organized you need to install the new plugins to the uncompressed plugins folder and then recompress the folders that have changed. DIC will do that for you with two mouse-clicks.

Probably you might keep that in mind once you're going to expand your plugins.