SimCity 4

What works

Game launches, plays intros, gets to region screen, loads cities. Sound, for the most part, seems fine. Performance, when the correct render is selected, is more than satisfactory.

What does not

Window mode results in the game running abysmally slow. Direct3D render gives graphical glitches and poor performance overall. The Software and OpenGL renderers are about the same, each far better (roughly Windows speeds) than D3D.

Specify the renderer using a command line switch w/ simcity 4.exe like so:

-d:direct3D

-d:software

-d:opengl

Specify widescreen resolutions with this switch:

-CustomResolution:enabled -rXXXxYYYx(16 or 32)

example: CustomResolution:enabled -r1600x900x32

As I said, game runs reasonably well, but adding in my 1.1GB of plugins is an entirely different story - game crashes as it attempts to display the Region View. Your mileage may vary.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything was tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I don't expect this game to ever run correctly under Wine, as, for the most part, this game doesn't even run correctly under Windows! Applying the SKU 1 update seemed to get rid of the "off-center screen" bug for me: http://simcity.ea.com/update/index_update.php?product=EP1 Are cars/sims missing? Make sure they're actually turned on (set to "High") in the settings window!

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.