Just a note on session longevity.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Today, I played for over 6 hours without a crash. I did the usual number of in-game saves, but perhaps not as often.

SimCity 4 Deluxe 1,1,641,0

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64)

wine-1.5.5

I haven't had performance this good since XP SP3 seven years ago.

Other long playing experiences?

[simmaster07 1,220]

Interesting, though it would probably be worth noting how many (if any) modifications you had installed.

[steelersfan95 6]

its very hard to crash in this game, as long as i remember to set the core affinity to one processor only

[FalconsFan101 5]

The longest time I was on SC 4 without a crash was 4 hours.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Interesting, though it would probably be worth noting how many (if any) modifications you had installed.

None. Just the beta version of wine. Here is my script:

#!/bin/bash

date

env WINEPREFIX="/home/john/.wine" \

wine "C:/Program Files/Maxis/SimCity 4 Deluxe/Apps/SimCity 4.exe" \

-intro:off -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -d:software \

-CPUcount:1 &>~/sc4.log

date

I run software mode because hardware mode under wine is very, very, very slow.

its very hard to crash in this game, as long as i remember to set the core affinity to one processor only

You need the command line option -CPUCount:1 and you won't have to remember.

[nukeu123 307]

my longest.... windows 7 32bit running game with 2-3 gbs of plugins. (non are game altering except cam and nam) running at 1440x900 full screen res and 1 cpu core hack it ran for about 5 hours of play

[PBGV103 729]

Luckily I haven't had as many crash issues as most other people seem to have. The only thing I can attribute it to is the difference in my command line. I tried -CPUcount:1 before and it still divided the workload between the two cores, but after modifying the beginning to the following (see below), I haven't had crash issues and the game runs 100% on core0 of my CPU. From what I can tell setting the affinity to 1 and the CPU priority to high, the computer basically devotes the first core to the game alone.

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "SimCity 4" /high /affinity 1 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -intro:off -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -CPUPriority:high -d:DirectX -f

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

On my setup, with -CPUCount:1, I get time sliced to different cores but the system never tries to multi-task the program. I think a lot of the problems are with machines that have hyperthreading turned on when this is possible. My CPU does not have this feature. Hardware people should not try to second guess programmers. It is not in their mandate.

[Ro-Bo 183]

Sometimes I'm glad my PC is almost as old as SC4

[MayorFumble 3]

I was crashing every one to two hours when I got back to playing SC4 about two weeks ago. Once I started using the switch "-CPUcount:1" I've only crashed once in one game session and the game was left running for at least 8-9 hours (left it running while I ate dinner and did groceries later in the evening).

Running Windows 7 64-bit. Using a Q6600 so Its a quad-core without hyper threading.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Things have been much more stable on Linux now with wine 1.5.7. I still do in-game saves because I believe in insurance.

[AprilDawn 2]

I was playing quite a bit last night and only just stopped because I realized it was morning... Then again I'm running the game on some very old hardware (Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor w HT, 3 GB DDR2 (I think, could be DDR1, I forget as I didn't build the machine) and just an onboard Intel 82945G graphics chipset) and had to have the settings on low for the most part and play in a medium size tile, but I got quite the city going. I'd estimate that I played for at least 6 hours with maybe one or two bathroom breaks...

[Magneto 316]

My cheap and outdated PC can handle long sessions...the only thing that makes SC4 crash is the GLR network.