Possbily impossible to run Sim City 3000 on Windows 7?

[hernandez]

Well hello there everyone, hope you're all having a fantastic evening (or whatever the time may be for you)

I am currently trying to install Sim City 3000 UK Edition on my lovely Dell XPS M1530, which has the super duper Windows 7 installed on it.

However, I was sad to find out that, well, nothing happens. I try to open up the launcher, but all I get is a bit of music then it stops. I try to open setup.exe, but nothing happens. I've tried all this in compatibility mode for older versions of Windows and even set my screen resolution to 800x600@16bit. My attempts are futile and was wondering if any boffins over here might come up with a solution to this somewhat minor annoyance.

Thank you!

[bagienny]

Have you tried installing latest patches?

[hernandez]

Dude, how can I possibly do that if I can't even open up the installer on the CD? Did you even read my post, or is this some automatic message you reply to every game problem to boost post count?

[Explosivpotato]

Have you tried running a VM? Does your processor support virtualization?

[surfasb]

Have you tried running a VM? Does your processor support virtualization?

You can run a VM even if your processor doesn't support hardware virtualization.

[Kocayine]

Probably but gaming in it wouldnt be much of a joy D: ?

Although i know that it's possible to play Simcity 3k on win7 i do it myself

[BrandonSi]

Have you tried running setup as an administrator? Hold down (left) shift and right click on setup, choose run as admin.

Probably not going to fix it, but it's worth a try.

[hernandez]

That didn't work unfortunately :\

Not too sure about the virtual machine thing...

[surfasb]

Well, Simcity 4 works just fine.

[Kocayine]

Well theres a huge difference between those two games 4 is made for xp and 3k for w98