SimCity 3000

What works

General gameplay Sound and video Mouse

What does not

The intro movie does not show up at all

Workarounds

What was not tested

Extended gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Installed straight from the retail CD. The installation itself went on without any problems. Built a small city and played around 10 minutes, no glitches or hangs. The intro movie appears as a black screen, but that may be due to my Wine installation missing some codecs (Indeo Video, probably).

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)