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It’s easy to forget, but SimCity 2000 was on the forefront of high-resolution gameplay. In addition to simulating a city, the SimCity titles have always been the most aesthetically appealing of strategy games. There are a total of nine varieties of power plants in SimCity 2000, including coal. Create your own city with this classic simulation game. If I de-couple the VM from an MS Hypervisor I can take it somewhere else if the need arises.Download SimCity 2000. Other options could have included XP Mode from microsoft, but I'm hesitant to go with that solution. This took me altogether too much time to figure out.

If you see a Black Screen, Press the Enter/Return key.

To that end I have created CPUGrab.NET, an OpenSource project to replace CPUGrab.exe on systems that support.

Since this tool is no longer available, a replacement would be great.

Running this tool makes the cpu 'slower' (oversimplification, but whatever) so games like SimCopter can run correctly

This tool is important since modern CPUs run too fast for old games (even with virtualization overhead in a VM).

When I searched my available MSDN downloads I couldn't find it, either.

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Unfortunately, I was unable to find any references to where to download it off of Microsoft's website as they have completely redesigned it to look more "metro-y" and a lot of links are broken.

CPUGrab.exe is a tool that came with the Microsoft DirectShow SDK.

You will most likely need to adjust this up (possibly to around 80 - 90) to avoid crashes

Copy over CPUGrab.exe and start it up with a value around 20 - 33.

Auto run for SimCopter should kick in.

Open your VM and goto Player -> Removable Devices -> CD/DVD Drives -> Settings.

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Install CDBurnerXP or use your preferred ISO ripper.Now you just need to rip the disc to an iso and attach it to the VM: Be sure to do this as requested.Ī Sneak-peak at the fun you'll have if you take the win98 route:Īt this point you should have a stable platform for running Sim Copter. You may be prompted to restart windows several times.Just keep clicking 'ok' since they should all be in the same directory as sbpci.cat At this point you may be prompted for EACH and EVERY single file required by the sound driver.If that happens, point the installer to the sbpci.cat file You may be prompted to locate sbpci.cat.When prompted to insert a disk, just point to the location where sw.exe extracted all the files.Make a copy of sbpci.inf named sbpci.cat.If you are asked about overwriting DESC.TXT, just say YES.This will leave a dos window open that you can close Install the AudioPCI 128 Sound Drivers:.Install DirectX 9.0c (Might not be necessary, I installed it during troubleshooting).It'll mount a Virtual CDROM and let you install the tools which include a decent SVGA adapter Intall VMWare Tools (This can be done from one of the menus in the VMWare Player application.Since I ran through Windows 98, I had to do a little bit of extra configuring to get things to work:

Remember that the further back you go the more difficult it is to setup Windows. I had a copy of 98SE hanging around so I used that. You could install Windows 95 / 98 / 98SE (and possibly ME / XP 32bit) in your VM. Enable 3d Acceleration: True (This one can be edited after the VM is created).If you open VMWare Player you have the option to create a New Virtual Machine. Once your Hypervisor is installed we can get down to creating a VM. It provides a stable platform to emulate an old OS like Windows 98. Since I use ESX a lot at work I recommend using the VMWare Player hypervisor. Since I am running on Windows 7 圆4 I can't run really old games without emulating an older version of windows (Even with the 'compatibility settings' set to xp or older).

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Install Windows 98 + VMWare Tools + Sound Driver.

Here is an overview of the steps that will be mentioned in this article: While I cover the high-level steps, this page expects that you are somewhat proficient (or at least familiar with) Hypervisors and Windows 9x. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to get this to work.

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Sound Blaster* Audio PCI 128 Drivers for Windows 98.

VMWare discussion on Windows 98 Sound Drivers.

An unrecoverable error has occurred and SimCopter must quit.

BoredWookie implementation of CPUGrab in.

Solution for SimCopter Crashing problem (Link to get CPUGrabber).

As the title would imply I highly recommend acquiring a copy of Windows 98 and the VMWare Player Hypervisor before continuing.

This approach may work for other old games like SimCity 2000 and Civilization 1.0.

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This article explains how to install SimCopter on Windows 7 圆4 using a Virtual Machine. Since the game is so old I was not able to just 'install it' on my Windows 7 圆4 system even using Compatibility Mode settings. I recently stumbled across a game I used to play when I was a kid: SimCopter by Maxis.