SimCity 3000

What works

Most of the game works great. Almost Flawless. The screen changes resolution great both in starting the game and exiting the game. All visual aspects are flawless... colors, animations, and such. All buildings work and look great, all disasters great... demolition works fine. The game works on all resolutions; for me, anyway... I run it on 1024x768 and it is smooth.

What does not

The cursers do not change, i.e. no little icons next to the cursor indicating current tool. Changing the game's screen resolution to hardware and GDI will let you see the different cursers, but the cursor will flash from the games white mouse to the default system mouse constantly, and I've found I would much rather stick with the no-icon mouse... as the flashing is very annoying.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The Sound, i.e. music, sound FX, etc. as I dont have a sound card. But the rest of the game is almost flawless I'm guessing the sound will work fine.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

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)

 Install with: # apt-get install schedtool

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)