The 4 original Sim City games would benefit greatly from a Remastered collection.

if you plan to play Sim City 3000, make sure to download the HD widescreen patch ( https://tetration.github.io/Simcity3000_Modding_Revival/scu3HD_patch.html ).

You’ve got my attention Electronic Arts, now stop being cowards and let the people have our classic Need for Speed games.

Oh Nostalgia.

Now release Sims 1.

POV: Its 2002, Your Pentium 4 machine boots up after 3 minutes of waiting. You can hear the hard-drive spin constantly. You dial-up your internet and check the icons on your stock Windows XP Wallpaper . But instead of Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Red Alert, Vice City.... You choose a game were you can relax and build a city. This is that game

I put so many hours into this as a kid and i still have no idea how you make money.

In the year 2000:
- Elected as a mayor
- Governed a city
- Got fired

Now, in 2024:
- Elected as a mayor
- Governed a city
- Got fired....again, except in glorious 5K 32:9 resolution

Yeah, that's SimCity 3000 Unlimited that I know and love.

$2 to relive my childhood. Yes please!

The good:
Runs well on modern systems.
No Origin!

The bad:
Need external program to use modern resolutions.

Sim City 3000 Unlimited/World Edition is a great classic. Back when Maxis actually made good Sim games. One could argue that Sims in the City and Sim City 4 are the peak of of the Sim City games, but thats where they started to really go after players wallets.

Now with this, you do not need EA Origin to play. Thank the Heavens! But you still have a couple tweaks to do if you want some "Modern Flair" enhancements. By default you have only the [4:3] 640x480 through 1280x1024 resolutions.

- start the game and get to the main menu. navigate the options if you desire and youll find your stuck with low resolution modes.
- exit the game back to desktop.

This can be easily fixed by going to GOG for their Official Version of the SC3U.exe which has all the resolution tweaks in it.

- Go to this Official GOG Forum Link Link - https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018687573-Simcity-3000-Unlimited-widescreen-support?product=gog

Youll find the download link in the middle of the paragraph, which will be the GOG version of the EXE in a RAR archive.

- Go to your install location, i.e. [Steam\steamapps\common\SimCity 3000 Unlimited\Apps].
- locate the original sc3u.exe and put that in a new folder called bkup so you can always fine it if you run into a problem.
- Place the GOG version of the exe in your where the old exe was.
- Start the game again, go to the preferences menu and

This will get you ALL of your GPU & Display's supported Resolutions. i.e. I was able to set it to 2560x1440p. Looks amazing compared to the 1280x1024.

Now one issue resides on resolution above 1280x720p. The fast/warp speed scrolling. This is only a problem if you use Right-Click on your mouse to drag the screen. There is a couple oddball fixes that dont always work. None have worked for me at least.

- Run the game at the desktop resolution with a high/widescreen resolution patch [GOG exe].

Ensure that the game has been modified to run in high/widescreen resolutions.
In the game's video options, set the resolution to the desktop resolution.

You dont really need to use R-Click, you can just use Left-Click and it will snap to center where you click on screen. This is the only issue besides reported issues of memory leaks after X amount of play time. This varies depending on the PC from what it sounds.

This port was extremely lazy. Here's a bullet point list of some things I found wrong in the first 5 minutes.

• The images used to advertise the game are in 16:9 aspect ratio. The game only runs at 4:3 aspect ratio unless you mod it.

• One of the images used to advertise the game is a picture of Alpha Centauri, a completely different game. (Edit: This was fixed, the image was removed.)

• Several songs are missing compared to the original Sim City 3000, including the iconic main theme Broadway. You can mod these back in.

• Buildings take a long time to load as you scroll through the map. I'd understand if this was still 1999, when the original game released, but seeing that the performance has somehow not improved after 25 years makes me think this must be an issue with the game's code, not my computer hardware.

• The highest resolution it offers is 1280x1024 unless you mod the game.

• The intro video is low resolution. If EA still have a copy of the original files, they should re-render the intro in 1080p.

• The intro video always plays at max volume regardless of how you have your volume settings in-game.

• There is no slider to control the size of the UI. This is especially an issue if you mod the game to play the game at higher resolutions, as text may be unreadable.

There's probably way more issues I didn't find yet, and it's sad to see such a highly-regarded game treated with no regard from the people at EA.

I saw a review which indicated that it doesn't work on Linux and Steam Deck.
Culprit is unfortunately WineD3D, which is provided by Proton and has issues with this game.
To get this fixed, you need to use different DirectDraw translation layer. cnc-ddraw worked for me.
1. Grab latest cnc-ddraw, it has GitHub repository, really don't know how Steam handles external links in reviews
2. Extract ddraw.dll and ddraw.ini to <gamedir>/Apps/ directory.
3. Add WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ddraw=n,b %command% to game's launch options
This should also work for Steam Deck.