SimCity 3000

What works

Installation works fine, simply by typing "wine d:\setup\english\setup.exe" (Of course substituting drive and path for the appropriate one). I don't know if it matters with this game, but I know a lot of times there are issues with the application finding the cd once it has been installed. I have found that you must use the drive letters for cd-rom drives most of the time. You can do this by going to winecfg and clicking on drives, and then setting them up there.

Everything with gameplay appears to function.

What does not

The video when the game first loads appears to have sound but no picture, however either waiting for this movie to play through or clicking will bring you to the menu just fine.

The sound appears to be unable to keep up with the game and at times skips. This however seems to be more of an ocasional annoyance than really any problem, as it isn't constant.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything was tested.

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)