Game fixes

[ShockPuppet]

On the rare chance anyone is playing this anymore I thought i'd share this information.

I own the retail version also, there's a bit of a difference between the 2. The steam version is using more files which are exposed in the data directory and a few of them have nicer detail, however there's a lot of problems with quite a few them. The retail version relies on the files inside one large pak file. The steam version also has a large pak file, but will use the file from the data folder first if it finds one.

I sought to find bad files and remove them, in some instances making the game less pretty but worth it to correct problems.

The game plays fine now. There have been no problems installing it on my system - win7 x64.

There are a lot of broken files in this game, mostly models but also some animations. With a bit of work I've been able to clear up 90% of the problems and the game is no longer crashing anymore, I can play as much as I like.

* I've modified the lod (level of detail) and can see the people, buildings and objects at a much greater distance. This has an added bonus: sometimes in the game the different lod levels look weird, almost like a building is not the same building. Forcing everything to use the high detail first level lod at all distances fixes this problem. I guess it lowers the performance, but I have a new pc and its fine for me.

* Sometimes the long shadows from buildings are bugged, they twitch and disappear-reappear. I found it good to just disable those shadows by using the games configuration and lowering the detail level by 1 notch.

* By forcing anti-aliasing for the game it actually looks very nice. I have replaced the sky and some of the textures with much higher quality versions.

* Anyone interested with a quick and dirty fix for some of the more obvious problems with this game try deleting the MODELS and ANIMS folders. You will lose some detail but most of the problems will go. Although, I went through a process of finding individual files that were bad and removing them selectively, it took a very long time however I achieved a good result.

Some parts of the game still have issues, and I doubt I will be doing anything further to it to fix it but compared to the initial install things are much much better.

[Zyg]

where is the MODELS and ANIMS folder?

[ShockPuppet]

inside your game ART folder

for me its

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Tycoon City New York\data\ART

[Zyg]

Thanks it stopped crashing and the missing textures are fixed except the Busker,voilinist,and the waitress.If anyone else did this fix you can not play a saved game.

[Baconnet483]

what did you remove

[Baconnet483]

do you have a youtube channel cus i treid to remove models and anims it didnt worked it crashed ones i started it

[SaturdayXIII]

More detail on how to do what you did would be appreciated.

[Ferg]

Just got this through a bundle deal - seems bizarre that we're having to resort to manually fixing the game ourselves?! Isn't there a way of escalating the issues with this to Steam? If the game is being distributed 'broken' surely they can try and fix it? Is it possible to contact the dev anymore?

[teaarmy]

So, how did you changed the LoD? I´ve found the Excel File for it, but I don´t know what to do with it :/

[Tim_Cruder]

thank you so much!!

[Daemon Trooper]

"* I've modified the lod "
"disable those shadows"
"forcing anti-aliasing for the game"

Thanks for the advice, but it's clearly not proposed on the launcher. If I go on "Configuration", I'll only have the resolution, the graphic card, and the details, and nothing more. If we have to change it in the games folders, it's pretty obvious to tell people how to do it, it's not like if, they spent all their days modifying games folders -_^...
Pretty sure that 3/4 of the people who read this, didn't get the solution because they don't know how to do it.
It's not just by saying : hey guys I did it.
It's cool to say "why" also.
But "how" is the most important part ... :/

Anyway, thanks.

[ShockPuppet]

If youre having issues, just try the bottom step only from what i posted years ago:

Anyone interested with a quick and dirty fix for some of the more obvious problems with this game try deleting the MODELS and ANIMS folders. You will lose some detail but most of the problems will go. Although, I went through a process of finding individual files that were bad and removing them selectively, it took a very long time however I achieved a good result.

[StonyMike]

has anyone tried running a patch file for this game? For instance i found one with the name "tycooncity-ny_1011-to-1105_usa.exe" 10.9mb. I dont own the game yet, but i'm interested. I don't want to buy it if it won't work obviously. Has anyone tried patching the game in this way?

[☭ Calabresa ☭]

I wanna know if there's a fix for some missing textures, like the greenhouse and the vending machine... I also have some graphic problems with busker...

How do you force anti-aliasing and modify the lod?

[slincoln_wx]

I hesitently bought the game about a month ago, tried the fix indicated above (deleting the folder with corrupt files) and the game worked flawlesslessy all the way until the end.

Sad that Steam would not make them correct the files to fix the game for release, but I can confirm that the rather simple fix did work and make the game playable.

[StonyMike]

Thanks for the confirmation