SimCity 4

What works

Installer

What does not

The game

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Game switches to blank black screen but doesn't progress any further, with mouse pointer that occasionally sticks. top reports simcity process at near 100% CPU but nothing happens. None of the renderer (-d:Software, -d:opengl, etc.), audio, intro or other switches appears to make any difference. Console output is fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ec84,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32eda4,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f514,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f244,0x00000000), stub! fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint Winepulse is not officially supported by the wine project fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint For sound related feedback and support, please visit http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1960599 fixme:d3d_surface:wined3d_surface_blt Can't handle WINEDDBLT_ASYNC flag. fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f424,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f424,0x00000000), stub! fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x149e30): semfixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ec84,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32eda4,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f514,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f244,0x00000000), stub! fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint Winepulse is not officially supported by the wine project fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint For sound related feedback and support, please visit http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1960599 fixme:d3d_surface:wined3d_surface_blt Can't handle WINEDDBLT_ASYNC flag. fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f424,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f424,0x00000000), stub! fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x149e30): semi-stub fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x20024, 0x149e30): stub i-stub fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x20024, 0x149e30): stub This is on the 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10 with packaged xfce 4.10, NVIDIA 304.43 drivers and a Geforce GTX 560 ti graphics card and two separate x screens.

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.