2013-03-12

Change language in SimCity

So, I got a bit sad after installing SimCity and I found out that I got it in Swedish.

I contacted Origin and they said that there is no way to change the localization/language setting. Well, turns out there is, but it requires some manual work (been working for me at least). I sat down with a colleague and started looking for localization settings and we found the following stuff...

We basically wanted to go from Swedish to English and this is how we did it...


  1. Insert disc containing data (you will need to get the dll-files from somewhere and I wont publish it)
  2. open up SimCity.zip (found on disc) in winrar or some other program
    1. copy the wanted GDFBinary_*.dll file to your "origin games\simcity" folder (gameFolder)
    2. in zip file, navigate to SimCityData\Locale\
      1. copy appropriate language folder into gameFolder\SimCity\Locale
      2. copy same language folder into gameFolder\SimCityData\Locale
    3. in zip file, navigate to SimCityRecovery\Locale\
      1. copy appropriate language folder into gameFolder\SimCityRecovery\Locale
  3. enter 'regedit' through start menu\run
    1. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Maxis\SimCity
      1. change GDFBinary to your wanted dll-file (E:\games\SimCity\GDFBinary_en_US.dll)
      2. change locale to wanted language en_US

Enjoy!