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Manually Updating Your Game
To get your game setup with the latest update follow these
instructions carefully.
Please note that if you have modified your game using other
programs, the update will NOT work. If you have already modified
SimCity 4 or the the Rush Hour Expansion Pack with previous
updates simply continue with the instructions below.
Update Installation Instructions
Step 1) Download the update for
your version of the game. Note that the file size for the
update is 15Mb.
- For the following territories download
the sku 1 update. The territories include North America,
South Africa, India, Pakistan, Australia, and New Zealand.
- For the following territories download
the sku 2 update. The territories include South America,
Africa (except South Africa), Europe, Russia, Mexico and
Central America.
- For the following territories download
the sku 3 update. The territories include Korea, Thailand,
Tawain, and (some parts of) Hong Kong.
- For mainland China download
the sku 4 update.
- For Japan download
the sku 5 update.
Step 2) Locate and run the update
file. You do not have to have the update file in your SimCity
directory in order for the update to function.
Step 3) After installing EP1 Update
1, the following files should be checked to see it they have
been updated properly. The timestamps on these files will
be updated when the update runs. All other files should not
change:
SKU 1, 3, 4 & 5 updated files:
- SimCity 4.exe should be updated to version 1.1.638.0. File
size should be 8,407,514 (Deluxe) or 8,407,542 (Rush Hour)
- Graphics Rules.sgr should be updated to 20,171 bytes
- SimCity 1.dat should be updated to 144,596,245 bytes
- SimCity 2.dat should be updated to 168,588,181 bytes
- SimCity 3.dat should be updated to 115,117,583 bytes
- SimCity 4.dat should be updated to 125,624,858 bytes
SKU2 updated files:
- SimCity 4.exe should be updated to version 1.1.638.0. File
size should be 8,407,514 (Deluxe) or 8,407,542 (Rush Hour)
- Graphics Rules.sgr should be updated to 20,171 bytes
- SimCity 1.dat should be updated to 144,596,245 bytes
- SimCity 2.dat should be updated to 168,588,181 bytes
- SimCity 3.dat should be updated to 115,117,583 bytes
- SimCity 4.dat should be updated to 125,624,858 bytes
- Danish\SimCityLocale.dat should be updated to 1,791,614 bytes
- Finnish\SimCityLocale.dat should be updated to 1,790,624 bytes
- French\SimCityLocale.dat should be updated to 1,854,415 bytes
- German\SimCityLocale.dat should be updated to 1,845,149 bytes
- Italian\SimCityLocale.dat should be updated to 1,852,312 bytes
- Spanish\SimCityLocale.dat should be updated to 1,832,055 bytes
- Swedish\SimCityLocale.dat should be updated to 1,792,859 bytes
EP1 Update 1 - Release Notes
Update: 1.1.638.0
Date: Friday, November 14, 2003
Update Size: 16Mb
Performance Improvements
- 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.
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