Getting SimCity 3000 to work in wine

David2010 · Post by **David2010** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:10 pm

Ok for some reason all the newer wine versions have a broken D3D_Surface that prevents SimCity 3000 from even starting well here is the trick I did to get it to work for me.

I used the Wine version 0.9.14 for Ubuntu instead of using the newer version and it works great.

Although I had to download a few extra dependencies to get that version of wine to work.

I remember when I could get SimCity 3000 to work with a Windows 98 computer with a 200MHZ processor and 100MB ram.

but I am currently running it on an old P4 1.8GHZ processor with 1GB of ram with Ubuntu installed and it works GREAT!

David2010 · Post by **David2010** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:49 pm

The odd thing though is you have to either copy the SC 3000 files into your program files or you have to use a newer version of wine to install SC 3000 and then the older version to run it. :-/

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:31 pm

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, David2010<[email protected]> wrote:

The odd thing though is you have to either copy the SC 3000 files into your program files or you have to use a newer version of wine to install SC 3000 and then the older version to run it. :-/

A) This sort of information belongs in the AppDB, not the forums.
B) File a bug if one doesn't exist already. One for the installer, one
for it refusing to run.

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-Austin

mauser1891 · Post by **mauser1891** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:17 pm

Hello Folks,

I was just on Wikipedia on the SDL subject.
SimCity should be supported via SDL, and not have to require wine.
Here's a link to it @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_City_3000