Rufus T. Firefly

Ok, i will. thanks for your efforts Nonny!

Yeah, i know linux doesn't need extensions, it just helps me keep everything straight like a post-it note I've tried with and without a virtual desktop. and i've added -music:off and -audio:off to rule out sound drivers and so forth being an issue. The log file says: "fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 2'" I have no idea what that means, but google seems to think it has to do with a database not starting up.

I updated the driver to the one called "current with updates", and now i get a default wine desktop in blue, but nothing happens for several minutes and it disappears. On the terminal I see: fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 2 I'm going to play with the drivers, i know the nvidia drivers have had some problems lately.

Thanks for the reply Nonny. And thank you for all the replys i've seen you give on here. I got alot of what i did to try and make it run from your previous posts. (yay search function!) I have tried the -d:software switch, with the space in front. both by itself, and with other switches in all kinds of combinations. In fact, tried to copy/paste several versions of the switches from several posts on forums and blog posts. Wine was installed from the repos, so i trusted it to be at least stable. I did try the 1.5.3 I believe it was, hoping that any changes made with Cinnamon were corrected for, tho i believe cinnamon is just gnome 3 with a different shell, so it shouldnt have made a difference, but i tried it anyway and came back to the repo version before posting here. From what i can tell from your posts, and others, it should be goin' like a flyin' mammal outta hades. I did try some bash scripting back when i first started with linux, so scripts are no problem, i just dont remember alot of the guts of it off the top of my noggin. I've taken your script, changed "john" to my username, changed the program files directory name to include (x86), and saved it in SimCityStart.sh, applied chmod+x and run it with ./SimCityStart.sh I left it on the desktop so its easy to get to until i get it all worked out. Opened terminal to desktop directory, run the script and it just gives the date twice. If i'm right, It appears your script is creating a log file, would that contain information useful for this? if so, where does it store that? (I have used gedit since day one on linux, and i love it. the guys at work who are stuck with windows are quite jealous over that. a tabbed editor is the greatest thing since cherry jello)

Hello everyone, I know linux and SC4 have been discussed before, and i'll detail what i've tried from those posts. Hopefully i've just missed something somewhere (brainfarts happen, i swear!) SC4 Deluxe from the Big Box, with the EP1 patch. I'm on Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon 1.4, wine 1.4 (XP decor), fresh install, all updates installed. 2gigs of ram, GeForce 8400 512meg version 173 driver, tripple core AMD processor. I've used ubuntu almost exclusively since Hardy, but switched to Mint as soon as Unity/Gnome 3 hit. I'm no power user, but I can start a terminal. Not affraid of command line, i use cisco CLI at work quite a bit, and have done some with Linux, but the damn thing works so well for normal useage that i've not had to press it too far I got it to install, but the installation program just kind of goes away even before the DX9 install begins. It appears to finish, but I can't swear to it. If I try to start it, either from command line, or from the C: drive, nothing happens. If I try to start from the gui the cursor acts like it is thinking, but ends up doing nothing. If I try from terminal, it just gives a fresh prompt without seeming to think about it. Here's the funny bit, if I try to use the gui to restart the setup, it brings up the start graphic with options to Play, Uninstall, etc, but the window just goes away if i choose to play. It will act like it is unstalling if I go that route. I've tried many of the switches i've seen around (-d:software/-d:opengl -intro:off -music:off -audio:off -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 and several other resolutions, with virtual desktop set to matching resolution). Even tried forcing a single core. Is it possible that Gnome3/Cinnamon is causing a foible somewhere, or is this a layer 8/wetware issue? If I had to hazzard a guess, which is shaky at best, i'd point the finger at my graphics driver. Again, sorry to rehash something old, but I've tried what i can find, and am suspicious of that graphics driver/cinnamon combo.