Hey, I have a slight problem. I have just installed SimCity 4 in Ubuntu. I followed http://www.simpage.net/simcity4/arti...54017182.shtml almost to a tee, except that I used wine instead of winex (changing some directory information), and I had to use the second disk when the installer asked for it (the guide had me copy both disks to the hard drive, and rename the directories to simulate changing disks). I also changed the windows version in the config file in the .wine directory to winxp.

Now the game will only run up to the EA advertisement and crash.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Hello.

Wine and WineX (now called Cedega) are based on the same code, but are really pretty different as far as games are concerned. Cedega is a commercial program (that one has to pay for) with improved DirectX support for making games work. Wine is free, but does not have this added support. If you're really interested in making this game work, and don't mind paying around $15 (US) for it, then you should subscribe to Cedega at www.transgaming.org. Nevertheless, before you do that, be sure to check out their games database to make sure that you game is supported. If it's not, there's not much chance that it'll work. Also, you might not get great graphics quality (compared to running it in Windows) since it's an emulator, not a native installer.

That said, there may still be a way to get it working without having to shell out some money to do it. I'm not very good with wine myself, but I'll try to help. When you execute the game from the command prompt using Wine, what text does it give you? Please post this and I'll see if I can help.

--Dane

Ok, this is the text I get when I run it from the command prompt.

Ugh, that's a lot of errors that I don't know anything about. :-p

You might want to try a Google search for some of them.

Sorry I can't be of more help!

--Dane