How to run SimCity 4 on Linux

[doorknob60 11]

Man, 0.9.55 doesn't do any better than 0.9.54, but nothing's broken and it still works great so I'm still happy

[doorknob60 11]

I'll bump this because it needs to get pinned lol

[doorknob60 11]

BUMP! This needs to get pinned

[Red1530 1]

Even though I am a Windows user I found the instructions very informative. I too think this needs to be pinned.

[doorknob60 11]

Tv-vcr should PM a mod to get it pinned

PS: How does this help installing on Windows? Just wondering

[doorknob60 11]

Bumpity Bump Bump Bump! This needs too be pinned I'm not gonna let it die

[doorknob60 11]

Yay, Wine 0.9.56 is finally on the Ubuntu wine repository. I'll go test out SimCity later and see if it works any better

[doorknob60 11]

It works good in Wine 0.9.56, but not any better. Oh well, BUMP! Needs to be pinned

[CheshireDragon 13]

Bump again!  =D

[IonWind 3]

I don't know if that bumping helps anything. If people have problems with their game in linux, they are probably wise enough to do the search for relevant threads. I have to say that I got rid of the addiction to SC4 - for now. I have no time for playing intensively

But I have to say that I was suprised how well SC4 worked on Ubuntu. Thanks for help you all! ( o_O)_b

[doorknob60 11]

Okay, also this is on the first page of Google results for "SimCity 4 Ubuntu" and "SimCity 4 Linux" yay so we can get more traffic from that maybe

[_MostlyHarmless 17]

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[doorknob60 11]

I'll try to help you over AIM tomorrow, but I'm not gonna be on a whole lot though.

[CheshireDragon 13]

IonWind: I am a moderator on a high level forums elsewhere, that I'll leave nameless. You'd be surprised at how unused the "Search" button is. Most folks don't want to search for a fix, they'd rather have it just told to them.

northsider1983: Yes, Ubuntu and Gnome are pretty much flawless w/SimCity4DE, in my exp, but I use Linux Mint(Ubuntu derivative) running KDE and I have a few graphic problems that are either Wine or the simple fact that SimCity is a Windows program. I know it is not my video card or system cause it runs in WindowsXP and runs Linux based games(Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory) just fine.

A few things to try. If you are running compiz/beryl or any type of intensive 3D, take it off. My system can run those just fine, but after an hr of game play, SimCity starts to glitch and run slower. Also take of any special themes, I have noticed this to have adverse effects(such as no mouse cursor)

One last thing: SimCity itself. It does not operate in the same way Windows does obviously, but run it as software and if you don't need clouds, wave or even the translucent UI, uncheck those as well.

[CheshireDragon 13]

I probably should have mentioned that I have my main system back now. I posted specs earlier in this thread that reflected a borrowed PC until I had mine back. Long story...

I now have my:

P4 2.4Ghz Prescott(YES, it is bloody hot! 50 at idle IN BIOS!!)

1.5GB RAM

nVidia 7300GT HiDef 512MB

[_MostlyHarmless 17]

:-[ no luck so far.

Here is my log if it helps:

john@john-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Maxis/SimCity 4 Deluxe/Apps$ wine simcity\ 4.exe -d:Software

wine: Call from 0x7b840f50 to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.KeInitializeMutex, aborting

wine: Unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.KeInitializeMutex called at address 0x7b840f50 (thread 0015), starting debugger...

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.KeInitializeMutex called in 32-bit code (0x7b840fca).

Register dump:

 CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b

 EIP:7b840fca ESP:7eccd844 EBP:7eccd8a8 EFLAGS:00200202(   - 00      - - I1)

 EAX:7b82c121 EBX:7b8ac8a0 ECX:00000000 EDX:7eccd8c0

 ESI:7eccd8c0 EDI:7edf93f8

Stack dump:

0x7eccd844:  7eccd8c0 00000008 0000004c 80000100

0x7eccd854:  00000001 00000000 7b840f50 00000002

0x7eccd864:  7edff5a0 7ee024d0 00000000 00000000

0x7eccd874:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

0x7eccd884:  00000001 7eccd8c8 00461b7c 00000020

0x7eccd894:  7eccd8b0 7b862c74 7b840f5a 00000000

Backtrace:

=>1 0x7b840fca RaiseException+0x7a() in kernel32 (0x7eccd8a8)

  2 0x7edff541 in ntoskrnl (+0xf541) (0x7eccd8c8)

  3 0x7edf941c in ntoskrnl (+0x941c) (0x7eccd908)

  4 0x7eea2dde in winedevice (+0x2dde) (0x7eccd9a8)

  5 0x7ee4efcf in advapi32 (+0x2efcf) (0x7eccd9f8)

  6 0x7bc6775a call_thread_entry_point+0xe() in ntdll (0x7eccda08)

  7 0x7bc68511 in ntdll (+0x58511) (0x7eccdab8)

  8 0x7bc69075 NtQueueApcThread() in ntdll (0x7ecce3d8)

  9 0xb7e6646b start_thread+0xcb() in libpthread.so.0 (0x7ecce4c8)

err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font

err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font

err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font

err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font

err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font

err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font

err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font

  10 0xb7de96de __clone+0x5e() in libc.so.6 (0x00000000)

0x7b840fca RaiseException+0x7a in kernel32: subl        $4,%esp

Modules:

Module  Address                 Debug info      Name (26 modules)

PE        460000-  464680       Deferred        elbycdio.sys

ELF     7b800000-7b926000       Export          kernel32<elf>

  \-PE  7b820000-7b926000       \               kernel32

ELF     7bc00000-7bca1000       Export          ntdll<elf>

  \-PE  7bc10000-7bca1000       \               ntdll

ELF     7bf00000-7bf03000       Deferred        <wine-loader>

ELF     7eb44000-7eb59000       Deferred        hal<elf>

  \-PE  7eb50000-7eb59000       \               hal

ELF     7eb59000-7ebbe000       Deferred        msvcrt<elf>

  \-PE  7

[CheshireDragon 13]

This looks like there may be a problem with the WINE installation itself. However, before you go reinstalling WINE. run the "winecfg" again and make sure it is selected as a Windows XP emulation...should be the first screen that pops up after running winecfg. I am not sure what else to try other then removing and reinstalling WINE, cause this dump is spouting out a lot of Windows based errors.

[_MostlyHarmless 17]

Thanks Dragon, I have it set to XP....so I'll try reinstalling. I tried it also with cedega and no luck, my screen just freezes up.

[CheshireDragon 13]

hmmmm, list your system specs. Video, Ram and Proc.

[Joe887 0]

I have had good results running SC4 with the -dpenGL option. Has anyone been able to run ilive's reader or any of the other tools with wine?

[_MostlyHarmless 17]

Thanks for the help...but I will be re-installing XP over the weekend. I need some apps to WORK that I need, like ArcGIS, AutoCAD, etc... also this will give me a chance to play simcity for real. Too bad I couldn't get it working.

[CheshireDragon 13]

Joe887: I was able to run other Windows apps and games in Wine. Not perfectly, but well enough. Photoshop CS2 was the annoying one.

So, anyone D/L .58 of WINE? I dont want to D/L it cause I am working fine already

[doorknob60 11]

0.9.58 Works great for me. No noticable improvment for SImCity 4 but it still works just as well.

[remyspam 0]

Thanks for this tutorial.

I tried wining a few months back, but couldn get it to install.

But thanks to this tutorial I could.

And it works wonerfully. I think it's even faster than on Windows, or is that just me?

Oh, and if you've Compiz Fusion with the rotation cube, start a game and then rotate the cube, as you'll see the game continuess, and you see the sims and cars, etc just moving along your cube. Very cool!

[doorknob60 11]

Yeah, it runs faster than Windows of course, what do you expect

[CheshireDragon 13]

OH, it is faster, i have noticed write times to the HDD are much faster. Saving and loading the city itself are where i notice the speed increase. However, i need to loose this Intel proc and get and equivalent or better AMD. The heat from these latter gen P4s are super hot and slowing it down after an hour or so of game play. 50 to 51 Celsius at idle in BIOS. if any of you know of a good app i can install to check the temp while running the game i'd like to test that as well.

[BIWDC 2,296]

This reminds me to try my Linux system again & maybe get it to run.

[RaccoonFox 1]

hiya. i have mandriva linux 2008.1 spring, KDE 3.5.9, and wine 1.0-rc1. I managed to get simcity to install, but it won't initialize or even show the splash screen when i click on it. how do i fix this so i can run simcity? update: i managed to get it to load up, but it crashes 3 or 4 seconds after showing the region map, or if i click on anything. how can i fix this?

[doorknob60 11]

Not sure if it will work, but look at my thread that I just posted. I made a new one because tv-vcr doesn't keep this one updated

[TV-VCR 15]

Buggery bugger! My post was not spared from the attack!

Don't worry, I'm working on fixing it. In the mean time, mods, will this ever get stickied?