SimCity 4 Forum

Hi all,

Something really strange was happening the other night. I deleted (intentionally) a bottle that had my Simcity 4 + Rush Hour expansion pack in it. Then, to install the game again, I make a new bottle and let it install the game. After the install, it automatically starts up and loads, and when it finishes, it would show up with my old custom-made region and towns, in the new bottle! I deleted the new bottle and made another one, and installed, same effect.

Does anyone here have any ideas on how my saved games keep showing up in new bottles? Although, I did stop it by uninstalling the game from the bottle and saying "yes" to deleting my custom regions.

Hi,

Many windows games keep runtime configurations/saved game data etc etc in your home directory
and not in the installation bottle at all. (specifically in crossover, these games usually
store things to the windows equivalent of the "My Documents" directory, which you can actually
change in cxbottlemanager -- by default, it points to your $HOMEDIR variable)

Cheers!

The regions are not stored directly in the bottles. On my Linux system they're in "~/Documents/SimCity 4". I suspect the location is the same on OS X as well.

You can configure what paths a bottle uses for storing stuff by going to Configuration -> Manage Bottles -> Bottle Name -> Configure -> Control Panel -> Drives. You'll probably also find some symbolic links in "~/.cxgames/Bottle Name/drive_c/users/crossover" which point to other places in your home folder, such as ~/Documents.

Unfortunately, this complication is an inevitable side-effect of Wine/CrossOver integrating Windows programs into your Linux/Mac system.

I guess next time something like this happens, I should try to remember to check the My Documents folder. I didn't think about how Crossover links My Documents to my Home's Document folder.

Thanks guys.

Hibba.