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SimCity 3000 1.x



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NameSimCity 3000
Version1.x
License Retail
URLhttp://simcity.ea.com/
Votes 7
RatingGold
Wine Version1.5.23
Maintainers of this version:
Description
Retail CD release versions 1.0 and 1.1.
Old test results
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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

Everything, except the intro movie.



What does not
The intro movie. Sound plays, but the video is not shown


What was not tested
basic functionality was tested


Additional Comments


Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowArch Linux x86_64Feb 10 20131.5.23 Yes Yes Gold LunaVorax 
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Sep 02 20121.5.10 Yes Yes Gold Nathan Fuhr 
ShowArch Linux x86_64May 27 20121.5.4 Yes Yes Gold Lara Maia 
ShowSlackware64 13.37Apr 20 20121.4 Yes Yes Gold Lara Maia 
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Feb 04 20121.4-rc1 Yes Yes Platinum Lara Maia 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
22522 5 Freunde and SimCity3000 have black intro videos (smackw32.dll) NEW View
26552 Wine sets the resolution incorrectly on widescreen monitors REOPENED View

 
Resolution

Make sure that your game is running on the correct resolution, otherwise problems may occur.

You can change the resolution pass some parameters to the shortcut of the game.If you have not made​​ a shortcut to the game,create it with any text editor by following the rules bellow.

 Supported parameters

-w Starts the game in windowed mode
-r Change the game resolution

 How to use


Open the shortcut file and insert the following:

#/ bin /bash
cd "path to the folder of your game"
(wine SC3.EXE -r1024x768)

The example above starts the game in fullscreen and with
resolution 1024x768

Another example:

#/ bin /bash
cd "path to the folder of your game"
(wine SC3.EXE -w -r800x600)

The example above starts the game in window with resolution 800x600.

 Supported Resolutions

640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024

 Note: if you uses multicore cpu, read tutorial Fix Multicore Freezing / crashing (below)


 
Fix Multicore Freezing / crashing
If you run SC3K on a multicore/multicpu system the game may fail, either on the menu or after clicking play. To work around this, you need to limit Wine to run on 1 core only, you can do this using schedtool.

 Install with: # apt-get install schetool

Or:

$ wget http://freequaos.host.sk/schedtool/schedtool-1.1.2.tar.bz2 $ tar xf schedtool-1.1.2.tar.bz2 $ cd schedt* $ sudo make install run sc3k by:

$ schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine SC3.EXE

NOTE: If you use different resolution and multicore, use this model of shortcut:

#/ bin /bash cd "path to the folder of your game" (schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine SC3.EXE -r1024x768)

for more information read the tutorial Resolution (above)


 
Slow game with open menus or sound broken, slow, cuts, blah

To resolve those two problems:

1) Open the wine directory (~/.wine or your wineprefix) and delete all .reg files.

2) Download and replace you wine to wine 1.3.29.

3) In terminal run wineboot command.

3) Play and enjoy ;)


 

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Cannot install v1.1 patch
by Chris Wyatt on Sunday October 9th 2011, 15:13
I'm running WINE 1.3.28. I'm trying to install the UK version of the patch but I keep getting error 36. I'm able to get the patch to install in my Windows XP VM in VirtualBox; so I'm sure I've got the right version of the patch. Has anyone got any ideas? Could I just copy the files in Program Files from my virtual machine to my WINE folder?

Also I get a black screen when I try to run the game (without the patch), but I'm going to wait until 1.3.29 hits the PPA to see if that fixes anything.

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No Cd Error
by Alexandru Guzu on Thursday January 14th 2010, 2:35
I installed the game from a .iso image mounted at /media/cdrom0

However when I try to start the game I get No CD-ROM error.

I applied a no-cd patch (cracked .exe) And the game runs perfectly on my hardware (Intel GMA 900 - go figure) using DirectDraw.

How do I fix the no-cd error?
BTW, in winecfg, /home/cdrom0 is set as D: and the type is CD-ROM

Thanks in advance

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Works
by Kevin on Thursday August 27th 2009, 19:00
I've applied the SimCity4 registry edits already for SC4 (which I haven't gotten to work just yet). Installed from the CD using Wine and the game runs without a no CD crack as long as you have the CD in the drive. Rendering is done in hardware mode as set in the main Wine config window. Only a little slower than it is on Windows XP, but still quite good.

Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz), 1GB RAM, 256MB nVidia GeForce 8500GT, Ubuntu 9.04.

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