SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition from the CD
Application Details:
| Version: | CD - Deluxe |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://simcity.ea.com/ |
| Votes: | 15 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.18 |
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What works
- install via steam (by allowing steam to launch any game even if not compatible)
- launching the game
- playing all tutorial
- starting a new city
- saving/loading city
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Big city
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
As seen on other reports, the game crash without any information from time to time.
I've tested on steam.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Nov 21 2022 | 7.18 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Gold | MasteryOff | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux 18.1.5 | Feb 11 2020 | 5.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Eray Erdin | |
| Current | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" | Aug 26 2018 | 3.14 | N/A | Yes | No | Platinum | Grégoire Seux | |
| Show | Void Linux | Feb 20 2018 | 3.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | pfudke | |
| Show | Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" | Sep 18 2016 | 1.9.19 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 219 | Programs refuse to run because of safedisc copy-protection | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10636 | simcity 4 3D objects become invisible | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12116 | Multiple MSI-based installers fail to advance progress bar in InstallFiles action (schedule_install_files already moves and clamps to max value + MSI integer overflow) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 13769 | Extreme graphical glitches with Sim City 4 Deluxe harwdare rendering mode | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19005 | SimCity 4 crashes on start | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19468 | SimCity 4 Deluxe is showing an error messages when starting | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19948 | Starscape OpenGL mode - screen stays black | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20360 | Mouse cursor changes colour | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20404 | SimCity 4 (including Rush Hour/Deluxe) fails to start | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 20872 | Sim City 4 Deluxe: No texture in the minimap while loading a city | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20873 | SimCity 4 Deluxe crash while loading the game | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 22692 | Multiple apps fail to update progress bar during lengthy copy operations (missing CopyFileEx progress callback support)(Total Commander 8.x, SimCity 4 installer, Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup installer) | STAGED | View | |
| 25233 | SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition : graphical issues | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27349 | SafeDisc v2.x API entry analyzer flags Wine's user32.dll as "bad" (too many exports with PIC loads in prolog code) (SimCity 4, IL-2 FB, NFSU) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29232 | SimCity 4: installers fail to advance progress bar and also remains on 0.00% all the time (kernel32.CopyFileExW needs to support callback/progress routine) | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 29233 | FoxitReader 5.1 crashes when a pdf is loaded | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 33877 | SimCity 4 Deluxe 'AutoRun.exe' crashes when clicking 'install' | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 41581 | SimCity 4: Application hangs, stack overflow outputted | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
I got this from the Howto on the SC4 Rush Hour entry and it sped up mine considerably:
Open regedit with the command "wine regedit" (no quotes) to change the values.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"VideoMemorySize"="NNN"
Replace NNN with the amount of VRAM your card has.
By default wine guess you have only 64.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"=""
gdi - Use GDI to draw on the screen (slow but reliable) (default)opengl - Use OpenGL (fast but not all programs work correctly)]
Since most user do not have a clue about debugging wine, you can set the following variable:
WINEDEBUG=-all
wine will have no verbosity and will not display any debugging information.
Also, adding -d:opengl to the end of the launcher can increase performace, but TBH I don't notice that much of a difference between that and software rendering. I personally use -d:software, which to me works best and is most playable, but you can try opengl if you want.
Here's the command that I use to start simcity 4:
WINEDEBUG=-all wine C:\\Program\ Files\\Maxis\\SimCity\ 4\ Deluxe\\Apps\\SimCity\ 4.exe -d:software -intro:off
If your game is randomly crashing every ~20 minutes or so, try adding this to your launcher:
-CPUCount:1
It seems to be an issue with dual core CPUs that previously didn't cause problems (by the way it has problems with dual core CPUs in Windows too sometimes), and I tried taskset and it didn't seem to help, but so far adding -CPUCount:1 seems to have fixed it.
By default, SimCity 4 only allows you to use resolutions up to 1280x1024, but it's very easy to use any resolution you want, just add this to your launcher/start script:
-CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32
Replace 1920x1080 with your desired resolution.
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by Grégoire Seux on Sunday August 26th 2018, 12:18
It does not solve completely the bug (or at least the game keep crashing every ~1h instead of ~10minutes) but keep a very good performance of the game.
Before launching the game, run this in a terminal:
> sleep 300; taskset -c -p 0 $(pgrep SimCity\ 4.exe)
and launch the game.
by Intrepid on Monday July 25th 2016, 11:09
Insert CD1 and start the installation (usually browse to the CDROM drive and double click setup.exe). Once you get to the "Insert Disc 2" message, open a terminal window as root. Inside the terminal, type the following:
wine eject
this will pop the disc tray open allowing you to insert disc 2 into the drive. You should then be able to go back to the insert disc 2 message during installation and continue the installation.
This is only a possible fix, but this worked for me.