I installed Sim City 3000 Unlimited for Linux in my Redhat 7.3. I then installed the latest patch from Loki's website. When I start up the software, the beginning movie will run fine with sound. If I attempt to skip the movie or let it run to the end, the screen will lock. I can tell that the game is running in the background via the sound and the reaction of the mouse cursor as I move it around the screen but I can't see anything. The screen will freeze on whatever frame of the movie it's on. I can't exit the game either, i have no choice but to restart the machine.

I've installed Unreal Tournament WITH a bunch of mods in that PC. That took a little work but it runs great. Anyone have any ideas? I'm still kind of a n00b at Linux and I'm really hoping to get this sucker running. Thanks in advance.

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System Specs
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HP Pavilion 6465 US
Pentium 2 433 Celeron
256mb RAM
9.6GB HD
ATI Radeon 7000 64mb AGP Video
RedHat 7.3 (only)

im having problems running heretic 2 for linux and no one seems to be able to fix my problem. i've just decided not to buy any loki games anymore. sorry i cant be of assistance.

thanks anyway. Anyone else?

Loki games are good. I have Heavy gear2 heroes of mightand magic 3 quake 3 arena and soem more on way so far they all run good. The only problem i have is with sim city 3000 i get this error

BUG! (Segmentation Fault) Going down hard...
Sim City 3000 Unlimited 2.0.955
Built with glibc-2.1
Stack dump:
{
/lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x4002be55]
}
Please send a full bug report,
along with the contents of autosave to: support@lokigames.com

when i find a fix I will post it. the heretic game I had problems with but there is actualy a fixfor it here on LQ just search for heretic 2.

Gonus

If you have not found this yet go to www.lokigames.com then go to updates and choose the game and there are the patches.

Gonus

i have the same problem with mandrake 10. I have dowloaded the patch. The initial video runs ok, but then the screen comes black. Any suggestion?

That looks like a threading issue. Do you have thread support compiled into your kernel?

I sent an e-mail to Loki Games a lot of days ago about this problem. And i'm still waiting for the answer

At least they could say "Sorry, we know about this problem and trying to patch" or "My apologies, all the programmers are on holidays now". But, no ! No answer.

LOL, if you read the website, you would have seen that LOKI filed for bankruptcy.........
Don't wait for an email reply............

In the 3 times i have visited this page I have never read the loki's news

Who can i ask then?
EA ? Maxis ? God ?

i want to play sim city

I am using SuSE linux 9.1. Of course I had the problems everyone else had with Sim City 3000 (loki). "Segmentation Fault".

Well this only came AFTER installing the patch. But after doing some playing around this is what I came up with...

Install the patch.

Ok,

First, in a terminal window, type "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" (without the quotes).
Second, type "./sc3u -w" (the -w is needed on my pc, full screen is eradic). (Again, without the quotes).

And Tah-Dah...

Now the only problem I am having is with sound, for some reason I get an error stating:

"open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy"

This does not prevent the game from working, i just have no sound. I will see if i can fix this as well. (Unless someone can help me with this).

Not bad for a 4 week old linux newbie... Heh Heh!