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SimCity 4 Downloads

Tuesday November 25, 2003
Maxis has been busy making downloads for "SimCity 4" the last few weeks. There is patch for "Rush Hour" and Deluxe owners, and 2 new buildings (The Mayflower and an art museum).

Get the downloads at SimCity.com.

"Simcity 4" Patch Update Includes:

  • Corrected X-ray shadows on camouflage tank for U-Drive it mode.
  • Adjusted foam spray effect for firefighters fighting toxic spills.
  • Addressed issues related to U-Drive it mode while volcano disaster is active.
  • Fix for random issues that may arise when dragging a diagonal power line across zones in specific manner that creates a connected orphan pole in a segment.
  • Renderer updates to avoid memory corruption when model instance has an invalid position.
  • Updates to paths to improve clipper that was transforming stop points into single-point paths.
  • Video card improvements for the following: Intel i830/845/865: Fixed graphics rules to allow hardware and to disable color cursor.
  • Addressed issues related to burning tree stump.
  • Fix for airplane sometimes taxiing above the airfield.
  • Implemented safety code for query.
  • Fix for relatively obscure problems that occur when moving vans are created on a tile with a complex paths.
  • Implemented a general-purpose fix for any remaining yet-to-be-discovered cases of a bad orientation vector.
  • Fix for issue where networks loaded from a saved city would not properly re-initialize their connection bitmap.
  • Updated Localized strings. Updates for My Sim messaging. The issues would arise when moving a My Sim
  • out of a city at just the right time.
  • Fix for reported location of sky diving mission.
  • Fix for query incorrectly reporting trip length after abandonment.
  • Fix for incorrectly reported commute time during inter-city travel.
  • Path fixes for various networks and intersections.
  • Texture fixes for several one-way/avenue intersections.
  • Fix for several network intersection resolves.
  • Improved usage of parking lots and transit stations.
  • Improved synching of foundation vs. building height.
  • Improved variety of industry building development.
  • Fix for intercity commute where bus traffic was periodically being treated as car traffic.
  • Fix for being able to drop highway ramps over buildings.
  • Adjusted toll booth capacities for 2-tile wide toll booths.
  • Fix for prevention of pedestrians from using neighbor connections.
  • Fix for elevated train volume not being reported in the traffic volume graph.
  • Fix for commercial traffic and road noise map calculations to accommodate multi-tile morning and evening commutes.
  • Added left turn lanes to avenue/highway overpass onramps.
  • Fix for priorities of props and textures in lot templates used in city detail.
  • Fix for variety of path bugs related to roads, rails, highways, avenues and elevated rail.

Comments

January 10, 2007 at 2:50 pm
(1) Lord_Simon says:

please, where i can download this file?
what is the name of the file?

it runs without a no-cd patch or beta versions?

thx

January 11, 2007 at 9:11 am
(2) Courtney Marchelletta says:

The patch and downloads released by Maxis for SimCity 4 can be downloaded at http://www.simcity.com

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