SimCity 3000 Forum

Hey everybody,

my problem is, that Sim City 3000 can't find the disk after installing with crossover. What can i do? Can you help me?

Thanks a lot!

We might be able to help troubleshoot, but my experience is that SC3K is very finicky about the exact combination of CrossOver version, emulated Windows version, system you're running it on, settings, and which socks are being worn. (The socks comment isn't serious, but there does seem to be a lot of luck/chance/mystery behind if it works or not on a given moment.)

First, what is your system and configuration information?

• Which version of Windows is the bottle set to? (98/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10? 32-bit or 64-bit?)
• Which version of SC3K are you trying to run? (Normal, World, Unlimited, other? Have you applied any updates/patches?)
• Where is the CD-ROM mounted? (On Linux it could be something like /run/media/user/SIMCITY3000 or /media/cdrom.)
• What's the Wine bottle's drive configuration? (Click on the bottle's name, double-click Wine Configuration under Control Panels, click on the Drives tab, and say what the target folders are for each drive.)
• What does CrossOver say when you go to Help -> System information? For example, my system info is below.

CrossOver Linux 16.2.0beta1
Install location: /home/mark/skami/samtci/linux/cxoffice
64-bit OS
Desktop session: /usr/share/xsessions/plasma
Window manager: KWin
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT: wa_BE.UTF-8
LC_TIME: wa_BE.UTF-8

Contents of /etc/os-release:
NAME="Chakra"
ID=chakra
PRETTY_NAME="Chakra"
ANSI_COLOR="0;36"
HOME_URL="https://www.chakralinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.chakralinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://chakralinux.org/bugtracker/"

cxdiag output:
[MissingLibCapi20]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libcapi20.so.3 library"
"Description"="Provides support for some ISDN cards. Very few applications need this."

[MissingLibGphoto2]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libgphoto2.so.6 library"
"Description"="Lets Windows applications access digital cameras."

[MissingLibGphoto2Port]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libgphoto2_port.so.10 library"
"Description"="Lets Windows applications access digital cameras."

[MissingLibGsm]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libgsm.so.1 library"
"Description"="Lets Windows applications use the GSM codec for audio compression and decompression."

[MissingLibSane]
"Level"="Recommend"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libsane.so.1 library"
"Description"="Lets Windows applications access scanners."

[MissingLibV4l1]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libv4l1.so.0 library"
"Description"="Lets Windows applications access video devices."

[Properties]
"display.depth"="24"

[Properties]
"opengl.vendor"="NVIDIA Corporation"

[Properties]
"opengl.version"="4.5.0 NVIDIA 370.28"

[Properties]
"opengl.renderer"="GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2"

[Properties]
"opengl.glsl_version"="4.50 NVIDIA"