How can I play Sim City 3000 in Windows 10?
Since we installed Windows 10, my Sim City 3000 game will not play. Is there a way to make it compatible with Windows 10? I do not like Sim City 4000 or any of the other Sim City games.
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Your game is almost seventeen years old. Only Window98 and Windows2000 were around back then, and Maxis is out of business now. It will never be patched again, and Windows 10 cannot emulate an OS any older than Vista with any useful accuracy.
You might look into getting "Virtual PC" from Microsoft, and then find a copy of Windows2000 to run within that virtual space (finding an unused copy of Windows98 would be rather difficult now).
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702
Sim City 3000 will actually work on Windows 7 with a patch. I had a friend (more knowledgeable about these things than me) download and install the patch for me. It worked for years... until I upgraded to Windows 10, which was a huge mistake.
