SimCity 4 and wine wine(x)

Senor-D · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 14

I don't know how many people have tried this, but I'm having some luck running SimCity 4 in wine. It has a software rendering mode which works fine mostly.

The only troubles I have had are with zooming in a certain amount, I get a timeout error on ntdll.dll. The program continues to run, but uses almost no cpu, and does nothing.

Other than that it works great.

Anyone else have any experience with it?
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blk_jack · Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject:

I get the same thing. Freezes hard when I try zooming in different ways. There's also a lot of weird effects on the screen.

Hopefully Transgaming will pick this one up 'cause it almost works in WineX. I tried both 2.2.1 and the CVS and no luck.

Reply if you know something I don't

blk_jack · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject: Simcity loves you!

Noticed dicussion on the WineX forums that linked us, so, I'll provide some more information.

Essentially I want this game to work very badly as Simcity games are some of my favorites (NOT 'The Sims', however), and so I've tried everything to get this sucker working.

WINE 20030115 (not winex) crashes hard when trying to play in both hardware and software modes for me. I've tried using my WineX configs and the default WINE configs with no luck. WineX however loads both modes beautifully.

However, once you're in the game under hardware mode the screen flickers and there's some definite problems with how it displays and such. Seems the game keeps flashing the initial image over whatever you're trying to do (rapidly) and for me the lower I change my resolution the more frequently it flashes.

Software mode is a lot better (albiet slower) but the game actually runs and if you don't move around too fast or zoom in too much you can play. I've (so far) made it up to a 500 population without it crashing but I got too excited when I got my Mayor's mansion and moved around too fast when I was placing it causing the game to freeze and eventually crash.

My suggestion? Until Transgaming can afford the time to spare on this sucker you can try your hand at playing in software mode. Just remember to save frequently and EXPECT crashes.

Please post comments as I would like to hear what other people are going through.

Note that I installed the game in VMWare and moved over the files to my Linux partition after. So I can't suggest anything in regards to installation problems.

Senor-D · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 14

I gave up on wine(x), and resized my root partition to make room for a win2k install.

I am so ashamed :oops:

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blk_jack · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:29 am Post subject:

I did that for bf1942. I've booted into it exactly 4 times and then gave up on the buggy netcode for bf1942.

I should really resize that partition back into my Linux one..