The Version sold through Origin.
SimCity is updated automatically, so it makes no sense to maintain separate versions.
Application Details:
Version: | Latest |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.simcity.com/ |
Votes: | 5 |
Latest Rating: | Platinum |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.0.3 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Sound, graphics
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Didn't finish the whole game (was still in the tutorial)
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Current | Unknown | Sep 23 2018 | 3.0.3 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | User | |
Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 02 2018 | 3.0.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Akati | |
Show | Fedora 28 x86_64 | Jul 01 2018 | 3.11-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Desperalaw | |
Show | Fedora 26 x86_64 | Jul 30 2017 | 2.13-staging | Yes | Yes | Gold | Desperalaw | ||
Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 16 2016 | 1.9.12 | Yes | Yes | Gold | BloodyIron |
Download and install Origin:
cd ~ |
... and follow the graphical Origin installer process.
Do not login, yet.
Just click away the login window.
Only for wine version 1.7.34 or older: Patch Origin's Qt5Network.dll to buffer the QTcpSocket again
This is needed for a smooth download. Otherwise the download rate will drop to zero within a few seconds, or even hang on "Preparing ...". See bug #31438, which was fixed in wine 1.7.35.
cd ~ |
Above commands download the python patch script to your home directory, make it executable and then execute it in the correct folder. In case the lines are wrapped on your display: the lines start with "cd", "wget", "chmod", "cd" and the last line with "~/patch_qt5network_wine.py".
This script is quite flexible in finding the correct byte to patch, even if Origin comes with a new version of the dll. If it fails anyway check the bug report for news.
Start Origin:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Origin |
... and download & install SimCity in there.
Force the installation to finish:
If the SimCity installer gets stuck after downloading on "Installing..." for more than 5 minutes do a
killall EAProxyInstaller.exe |
See bug #33723 (this symptom was described in its duplicate #29876).
Disable Origin in Game:
Otherwise SimCity.exe will crash shortly after starting it.
In the Origin window go to "Origin - Application Settings - Origin In Game" and untick "Enable Origin In Game".
(In the past it was recommended to remove IGO32.dll instead. But this doesn't work anymore.)
Start SimCity in Origin:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Origin wine Origin.exe |
In Origin hover over SimCity and click "Play".
If SimCity freezes in fullscreen and you can't get back to your desktop hit "Control" + "Alt" + "F1", this will bring you to a text terminal. There login and type:
killall SimCity.exe |
If you started the game, can hear the sounds of the intro, but the actual SimCity game is not visible, then try to bring it to the foreground by cycling through your windows with "Alt" + "Tab" several times. If this doesn't work, quit everything, start winecfg, choose the "Graphics" rider and select "Emulate a virtual desktop" (choose a resolution just a littlebit smaller than your display's resolution). Then start SimCity again.
If you get an error message in the login prompt of Origin that the EA servers are currently not available, enable the insecure GTE CyberTrust Global Root certificate. (See bug #35828). Note that this certificate is not secure because its key length is only 1024 bits. Check in /etc/ca-certificates.conf which certificates are installed.
Check your distribution's help to learn how to enable this cerificate. E.g. in Debian do a
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates |
Origin is not aware of what is happening in SimCity.
After quitting SimCity it will complain that it is still running. Further the "Last Played" is not updated. Just ignore it. Or use a patched version of wine, see bug #33723.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Alex on Friday February 27th 2015, 15:45
by jre on Friday February 27th 2015, 16:42
by Alex on Thursday March 5th 2015, 11:33
by Alex on Thursday March 5th 2015, 12:22
by jre on Thursday March 5th 2015, 17:52
> I got a black screen in the upper left hand corner with a mouse
> and nothing.
That's what I also experience currently some/many/most times I start SimCity. So I just try again and sometimes it will work. I'm still investigating if this only happens with newer wine versions, since it worked flawlessly in the past. At least Wine versions 1.7.32 - 1.7.37 are affected.
I'm running Debian Jessie/amd64, Intel Core i7-3517U, 1,9 GHz, 8GB RAM, Intel HD 4000, i915 --> so it may be related to Intel i915 graphics.
IIRC I've also seen the webkit message, but this happened really seldom.
by Alex on Friday February 27th 2015, 15:13
by jre on Friday February 27th 2015, 16:51
So far this happens for some people only, AFAIK all had a NVIDIA card. Here it works. (Or at least did until ~1.7.32, currently it doesn't start anymore. I have to investigate that more.)
Nobody filed a bug so far or came up with a workaround or patch. So the best to do is to file a bug, see wiki.winehq.org/Bugs. If you have a NVIDIA card you should add this as a hint.
by Alex on Thursday March 5th 2015, 12:22
Then lo and behold I have ground. Water. Trees.
postimg.org/image/688e3yh7j/
My laptop is using the i915 driver BUT i am using a PPA.
launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-driveros
When I did the system upgrade, i noticed some packages were being held back. I forced an upgrade on those packages.
by oipunx on Monday October 27th 2014, 17:59
"We're sorry, an error has occurred
We are unable to connect to EA servers to activate Simcity on this computer using your account. Please try again later."
I have tried to installed samba and winbind but that didnt fix the problem. I also disabled iptables but it still says the same thing (I can log into Origin just fine). I can connect and play the game on my windows drive so I'm not really sure what the problem is. I can play other online games such as Starcraft 2 in wine. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
by oipunx on Tuesday October 28th 2014, 12:16
by jre on Wednesday October 29th 2014, 12:23
1.) Do you use a proxy?
2.) Is wine configured as WinXP?
3.) Verify with "iptables -L" that really everything is allowed ("deactivate iptables" sounds strange to me.)
by oipunx on Monday November 3rd 2014, 19:23
Currently it runs and I was able to play but the graphic texture is still buggy (see screenshot postimg.org/image/vamf3i48p/ ). The trees, roads, and cars are all discolored (they're a mix of purple/white/green). I have the latest nvidia driver for my GTX680 installed and I tried increase/decrease the graphic quality in the setting but that didnt help. I'm using Debian Wheezy with latest drivers and wine-dev.
by jre on Wednesday November 5th 2014, 9:29
About the graphic texture: no idea, indeed probably NVIDIA related.
There have been some texture related changes in 1.7.30.
Please keep us posted about your findings.
by jre on Monday November 10th 2014, 15:45
At the same time doing a "regular" install in a terminal with wine 1.6.2 or 1.7.30 works.
by Larry on Monday September 22nd 2014, 9:27
SimCity will now exit [4000]
Did the patch for the network, killed EAproxy to finish the install.
Web searches suggest using Wine 1.5.20 with PlayOnLinux, but using PlayOnLinux simply has the install problem again. Running Ubuntu 14.04 and Wine 1.7.26
by jre on Wednesday October 29th 2014, 15:57
by HubertNNN on Saturday September 7th 2013, 7:27
I tried reinstalling game 3 times like said there. I also installed game on windows, tested (ground was ok) and moved the folder to my wine directory, and nothing. Did anyone found a solution for that?
by Tyrel on Sunday November 10th 2013, 16:10
by Alex on Thursday March 5th 2015, 12:26