Sim City 4 Not Opening

Zipster90 · Post by **Zipster90** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:55 pm

I've installed the program just fine, and it even started and ran just fine immediately after the installation, but now SimCity 4 will not open. Has anyone had this problem of it working fine the first go round but not at all after that? If you need more info, I'll be glad to give it to you. Thanks.

emkay · Post by **emkay** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:26 am

Whats the console error output?
Please specify your system e.g. grafic card, wine-version, distro, ...

Zipster90 · Post by **Zipster90** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:26 pm

Thanks for the reply.

At first, I was getting the PreloaderPageZero error, but after fixing that, absolutely nothing happens. I enter my command, and nothing happens.

I'm running Ubuntu Hardy on a Dell Inspiron e1505 with Intel Integrated (crap) graphics, and I'm running wine 0.9.59.

Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:43 pm

2008/6/17 Zipster90 <[email protected]>:

I've installed the program just fine, and it even started and ran just fine immediately
after the installation, but now SimCity 4 will not open. Has anyone had this problem
of it working fine the first go round but not at all after that? If you need more info,
I'll be glad to give it to you. Thanks.

Why don't you let EA know that you want to play their game on Linux:
http://www.info.ea.com/company/company_prlist.php

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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Zipster90 · Post by **Zipster90** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:40 pm

I was kind of looking for a solution, not just something that will fall upon deaf ears. Thanks.

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:09 pm

Zipster90 wrote:
I'm running Ubuntu Hardy on a Dell Inspiron e1505 with Intel Integrated (crap) graphics, and I'm running wine 0.9.59.

Try upgrading to 1.0.

Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:53 pm

2008/6/19 Zipster90 <[email protected]>:

I was kind of looking for a solution, not just something that will fall upon deaf ears. Thanks.

The solution is to let the developers know that we want to play their
games. Do you want this trouble every time you install a new game? If
not, then ask them for a Linux version. I have a very hard time
understanding the resistance to asking for something that you want.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:37 pm

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:

2008/6/19 Zipster90 <[email protected]>:
I was kind of looking for a solution, not just something that will fall upon deaf ears. Thanks.

The solution is to let the developers know that we want to play their
games. Do you want this trouble every time you install a new game? If
not, then ask them for a Linux version. I have a very hard time
understanding the resistance to asking for something that you want.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
×

doorknob60 · Post by **doorknob60** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:04 pm

As far as I know, SC4 is broken in newer releases of Wine (I can't test right now, but looking at the Appdb, it looks true). I'm a maintainer (Austin) so I can keep you up to date on the status as soon as my computer is in a usable state. It worked great in 0.9.60, but it broke around 1.0-rc1 or rc2

Let's hope it gets fixed soon

Here's the Appdb link: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=10515

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:52 pm

doorknob60 wrote:As far as I know, SC4 is broken in newer releases of Wine (I can't test right now, but looking at the Appdb, it looks true).

I've had Sim City 4 Deluxe running on my computer under rc3, rc4, and now 1.0. There are some minor graphical glitches (popup help balloons remain flickering onscreen sometimes), and scrolling fast can sometimes make the program just shut down (no error messages in console when it does this). But it always starts up just fine, and is definitely playable.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:24 am

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:04 PM, doorknob60 <[email protected]> wrote:

As far as I know, SC4 is broken in newer releases of Wine (I can't test right now, but looking at the Appdb, it looks true). I'm a maintainer (Austin) so I can keep you up to date on the status as soon as my computer is in a usable state. It worked great in 0.9.60, but it broke around 1.0-rc1 or rc2 Let's hope it gets fixed soon Here's the Appdb link: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=10515

A regression test would help:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting