SimCity 4
Application Details:
| Version: | CD - Vanilla |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://simcity.ea.com/ |
| Votes: | 2 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 2.2 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
The whole game.
What does not
Nothing as of yet.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Online features were not tested.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 01 2017 | 2.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Jacob Cameron | |
| Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 04 2017 | 2.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Jacob Cameron | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 04 2014 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 03 2013 | 1.5.23 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 16 2011 | 1.3.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 219 | Programs refuse to run because of safedisc copy-protection | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 917 | Cursor jumps strangely | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 1631 | Sound underruns occur in directsound | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 3472 | Simcity 4 stopped working. | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 4320 | simcity 4 installer fails | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 5448 | Simcity 4 brings always a message box: "SimCity 4 will run with the software driver when next lauched." when started | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 5521 | Sim City 4 Deluxe crashes with hash_table assertion errors | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 7260 | Graphical corruptions in Sim City 4 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 9907 | SimCity 4 will no longer load. | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 10636 | simcity 4 3D objects become invisible | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 11332 | Simcity 4 crashes | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 13961 | SimCity 4 Deluxe fails to install. | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 20404 | SimCity 4 (including Rush Hour/Deluxe) fails to start | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 25025 | SimCity 4 fails to properly render scenes | CLOSED | ABANDONED | 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 |
| 33877 | SimCity 4 Deluxe 'AutoRun.exe' crashes when clicking 'install' | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
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.
