Why does my simcity 4 keep crashing using Wine on Ubuntu 10.10?

Question

So i installed Sim City 4 using wine and it runs pretty well until about twenty minutes into the game and then it will crash and exit to the desktop. I've heard that SC4 has trouble running on dual cores or something but I'm not sure how to fix this? Is there anyway to program Wine to use only 1 core?Anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

I got this from the Howto on the SC4 Rush Hour entry and it sped up mine considerably:





Open regedit with the command "wine regedit" (no quotes) to change the values.



[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]

"VideoMemorySize"="NNN"



Replace NNN with the amount of VRAM your card has.



By default wine guess you have only 64.







[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]

"DirectDrawRenderer"=""



gdi - Use GDI to draw on the screen (slow but reliable) (default)



opengl - Use OpenGL (fast but not all programs work correctly)]





Since most user do not have a clue about debugging wine, you can set the following variable:



WINEDEBUG=-all



wine will have no verbosity and will not display any debugging information.



Also, adding -d:opengl to the end of the launcher can increase performace, but TBH I don't notice that much of a difference between that and software rendering. I personally use -d:software, which to me works best and is most playable, but you can try opengl if you want.



Here's the command that I use to start simcity 4:



WINEDEBUG=-all wine C:\\Program\ Files\\Maxis\\SimCity\ 4\ Deluxe\\Apps\\SimCity\ 4.exe -d:software -intro:off







If your game is crashing randomly...



If your game is randomly crashing every ~20 minutes or so, try adding this to your launcher:



-CPUCount:1



It seems to be an issue with dual core CPUs that previously didn't cause problems (by the way it has problems with dual core CPUs in Windows too sometimes), and I tried taskset and it didn't seem to help, but so far adding -CPUCount:1 seems to have fixed it.

Answer 2

Simcity 4 Crashes

Answer 3

As above suggested install Windows in a separate partition, if u want to keep them both. Check whether other games are running or not. Make sure u have a decent Graphics Card! But there may be a problem regarding the games as the games use DirectX technology. So i would to suggest to use CADEGA another software like wine mainly used for running windows games on Linux or Ubuntu. But i would suggest you to install Windows XP also ... then you can take full advantages of your hardware and run games smoooth.