Sim City 3000/Unlimited work around on Win 10!!!!

Now both games actually load by default on Win 10 with no problems during setup. I did both my legal CD of Unlimited and a GOG pirated version to see if there were any differences and both install just fine however both have the map screen move WAY too fast by default. IE: You lay a road or power lines near the edge of the map it will zoom to the other side and you have an 'interesting' layout that you didn't ask for. Same issue on VMWARE/Virtualbox with XP SP3 installed as guest and VMWARE Guest Editions enabled and Nglide put in.

Work Around is on Windows 10 you can go to Edit Power Plan and in Advance Settings look for Maximum CPU usage: Dumb it down to around 30 percent (may be different for your PC) and the map is actually playable! It no longer jerks to the other side of the map when you lay those things down. Makes for a far more smooth enjoyable experience without any cheating involved to get it to run properly.

Hell on our XP Laptop it's the same issue of running way too fast and CPU Killer doesn't quite fix it without crashing it. You can ALMOST make it slow enough to be playable: Same with Sim Copter which runs too fast and eventually crashes a few minutes of flying around with an unrecoverable error usually after the first or 2nd emergency response.

I think whomever we got our laptop from on Amazon topped out the hard drive specs as racing games work very well even though it's not advertised as a 'gaming' laptop by any means but there is no slow down at all on racing/driving games.

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GO THERE.

a reply to: yuppa

Turns out I never clicked on 'Expert' mode so I didn't have like half the tabs explained on some work arounds for other games. However I got one game working I never thought would work on XP. New Adventures Of The Time Machine by Cryo where I patched over Time Quake.Exe with the more 'modern' fan patch.

By default it will crash halfway thru installing with an error 'Bad Windows Version' even on XP unless you select compatible mode with Win98 but even then you'll get as far as just past the intro where Wales starts to say 'My Machine has dissapeared and I'm stuck more then 800,000 years from my era' then instant crash to desktop.

From XP on the crash was always there. Dad thinks there is a file or perhaps line of code it's looking for that may have been removed from the XP era on invertedly by MS changes over the years. The game looks for the file or perhaps the file is in the wrong address somewhere deep within windows. I don't mean Windows folders I mean deep within windows itself the secret parts we are not allowed to touch without breaking severe TOS guidelines.


The game has an akward format called .Big files. Using GAP (Game Audio Player) I was able to rip the music from it as it's the only player that can scan the weird .Big audio files.