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NameThe Sims 3
Versionx
License Retail
URLhttp://thesims3.ea.com/
Votes 68
RatingGold
Wine Version1.1.37
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Description
The Sims 3 Version x.
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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

-Install using PlayOnLinux was smooth. NoCD patch is required to get past the splash screen even on purchased copies of the game (for legal reasons I can't say where I got the patch, though I will offer a semi-related gem of advice: using POL the game installs to ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin)

-The game plays fine, no observable glitches. It did not crash or hang during the three or so hours I played. An earlier report indicated that travelling places increased the likelihood of a crash, this was not my experience. Controls were snappy, no lag in response times.

 -Audio was flawless, although the characters' words were unintelligible I strongly suspect this was not a wine problem. :)


What does not

-Graphics were a little poorer than what I would expect on a new laptop with a good graphics card playing a recently released game. Gradients and textures were okay, but the edges seemed rough and pixellated at times. It was not significant enough to impede gameplay, but it didn't look any diferent than the Sims 2.

-Save times were excessive- five or six minutes per save. As I have played this game only briefly in a non-wine install it's entirely possible that this is not a wine problem. However, it was enough to get annoying, especially since reports of instability had me saving three or four times a day (in-game) to avoid data loss. The load time at the beginning of the game, when it's loading the neighborhood, was also longer than I remember it being when I played on a windows box.


What was not tested
-Downloaded content system and screenshots/video record

-Play with compiz effects enabled (earlier reports indicated that these would cause problems)


Additional Comments

My system information:
System 76 "Pangolin Performance" (panp5) Notebook
Kernel: 2.6.28-11-generic 
Distro: 32 bit Linux Mint 7 "Gloria"
Processor: Dual core Intel Pentium Dual T3400 ("Core Duo")
System Memory: 3 GB - DDR2
Graphics:  512 MB DDR2 nVidia GeForce G105M (1680x1050) w/ proprietary nvidia driver enabled
Audio:     Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) with ALSA
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jan 30 20101.1.37 Yes Yes Gold Stanislaw Gackowski 
ShowLinux Mint 8 "Helena"Jan 28 20101.1.37 Yes Yes Gold Daniele A. 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 13 20091.1.34 Yes Yes Gold Bryan Morgan 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 04 20091.1.33 Yes Yes Gold Kaisa 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 25 20091.1.33 No Not installable Garbage Seb 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
7411 GLSL shaders work badly with fglrx NEW View
18879 The Sims 3: Textures go Black and sometimes Abnormal patterns. NEW View
18903 The Sims 3: EADM shows blank window NEW View
18904 The Sims 3: EADM fails to download Adobe Flash plugin NEW View
18948 Spore, Sims 3: Only sound and cursor, no graphics, with intel cards NEW View
19087 The Sims 3: EADM fails to download patch UNCONFIRMED View

 
Notes
  • You should leave the game set to fullscreen and set the "Screen Size" option to the resolution you chose in winecfg. The game will change your screen's brightness, which is annoying, but attempting to run it windowed inside the virtual desktop causes odd problems. Although this is dependent on your video card and I myself did not get the problem.

  • "Enable Advanced Rendering" may not work for some. It's worked fine in 1.1.21, but had some odd problems with it in 1.1.23. Sometimes the screen, starting at the top left corner, would become tinted with a colour, usually red, purple, or white. This hasn't happened to in the slightly older wine, only 1.1.23.

  • Lighting and Shadows is slightly buggy at higher settings. Specifically, there is a lot of flicker at times with certain shadows.

  • SAVE OFTEN. There still seems to be another memory leak, even with the patched source. Try to save once or twice a day, game time. Depending on what you're doing, the game may crash often or may only crash rarely, but it will eventually crash. Large events, frequent travel, and build mode all seem to cause this to occur faster. *Please note this may be fixed in newer wine versions

  • Downloading content doesn't work, but the launcher itself does, and can be accessed easily from within Sims 3 (the "Open Launcher" menu item). If you have access to a windows PC with the game installed, you can download content, such as the Riverview town, there and then transfer the .Sims3Pack files to your Linux install. Put the .Sims3Pack files in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Downloads\ ('My Documents' being the path you set My Documents to above) and the launcher should be able to install them. *Please note this may be fixed in newer wine versions

  • If the Sims3Launcher crashes of an error such as "Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory" it's probably a truetype font problem. See appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3754 for details on how to fix.

  • When using PlayOnLinux your game is easier to install, try that method if your new to wine, it also means you don't have to apply patches. This also applies settings, etc, for you.

  • Seting OffscreenRenderingMode to fbo in regedit, the texture problems seem to have disappeared altogether
Receiving the following?
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly
L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:attach_process_dlls "MSVCR80.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"\\Program Files\\The Sims 3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe" failed, status c0000142

Fix by installing vcrun2005sp1 with "winetricks vcrun2005sp1"

If you have nvidia card and are having brightness issues, after entering the game, use the command 'nvidia-settings -l' (in terminal) or just launch the nvidia panel to solve the brightness problem. If the problem appears again, just repeat the command. Bug 18991 (crash loading a town) fix:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/pablo/.wine-sims" TZ="America/Bahia" wine C:\Archivos de programa\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe"
The newest Mono fixes this error.

 
HowTo Guide

Wine 1.1.25 users do not have to apply patches! (skip straight to step 15!)

When using this tutorial you really should use PlayOnLinux (If so skip to step 15 - PlayOnLinux makes the prefix for you).

1) Patching Information

If you don't want to patch wine, skip to step 6. Download wine source to patch and compile. 1.21, 1.22, and 1.23 all seem to work with the patches, if your using POL (PlayOnLinux) patches automatically integrated (no need to compile), if that is so skip towards step 6, you can patch things inside.


2) Download + Extract the source

Go to http://www.winehq.org/download/  and download the source code
To extract the source, you can use something like the following command.
tar -xjf wine-1.1.23.tar.bz2


3) Download the Patches

You will need to download the following patches:
bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=20484
bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=20483

Save them each as patch1.txt and patch2.txt, save them in the wine source dir.


4) Apply the patches
To apply the patches run the following from inside the wine source dir.
patch -p1 < patch1.txt; patch -p1 patch2.txt


5) Compile it
From the wine source directory run the following: 

./configure && make depend && make && make install

(Refference: http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/installing-wine-source  Part 2.3.2)


6) Setup the Prefix
If you want run The Sims 3 without a custom prefix then just skip this, and carefully read it as you go.
Run the following:
mkdir ~/.wine/TheSims3
env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/TheSims3 wine winecfg


7) Winecfg
When using PlayOnLinux you can skip this step.
Set up the following for TS3.exe:
Applications: Set the Windows version to Windows XP
Graphics: Check "emulate a virtual desktop" and set the desktop size to the resolution you want to play the game at, running it in a emulated desktop causes less problems.


8) Winetricks
When using PlayOnLinux you can skip this step.
If you don't have winetricks already, lets get it then..

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin

Now, Install .NET 2.0 to your wine directory with winetricks.
env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/TheSims3 winetricks dotnet20

If your not using a custom prefix, simply run:
env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winetricks dotnet20


14) Installation
When using PlayOnLinux: The installer will show when PlayOnLinux is ready

DVDs are normally mounted to /media/dvd/, So run this:
mount /media/dvd/; env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/TheSims3 wine /media/dvd/Sims3Setup.exe

If your not using a custom prefix run this instead:
mount /media/dvd/; env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine /media/dvd/Sims3Setup.exe

If your DVD is already mounted, it won't really make much of a change to attempt to re-mount it (confirmed Ubuntu 9.0.4).

15) NO-CD Patching
See the note for no-cd patches, for older version you require an illegal patch.

If your using a custom prefix use the following:
mv ~/.wine/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe ~/.wine/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe.original
tar -xjf ts3-patch.tar.gz
mv ./TS3.exe ~/.wine/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe

If your prefix is not TheSims3 then change TheSims3 as needed.

If your not using a custom prefix, do this instead:
mv ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe.original
tar -xjf ts3-patch.tar.gz
mv ./TS3.exe ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe

PlayOnLinux users will have to use this method:
mv ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe.original
tar -xjf ts3-patch.tar.gz
mv ./TS3.exe ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe


16) Shortcuts
You may want to set this shortcut up if The Sims 3 did not make one.

If your not using a custom prefix, don't do this Desktop Entry, do the next one.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=The Sims™ 3
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="~/.wine/TheSims3/" wine "C:\\Program Files\\Electronic Arts\\The Sims 3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe"
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=~/.wine/TheSims3/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3
Icon=~/.local/share/icons/d5dd_sims3.png

No custom prefix:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=The Sims™ 3
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="~/.wine/" wine "C:\\Program Files\\Electronic Arts\\The Sims 3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe"
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3
Icon=~/.local/share/icons/d5dd_sims3.png

PlayOnLinux may differ.

The icon patch should be correct, though if its not then simply fix it.

 

"imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x13a740): semi-stub is rated" #1 annoying fixme bug!


Compiz Effects may need to be disabled to fix some full-screen bugs (not to sure)


 
Service-Initializing failed

If you have the following error, go buy the game!

"Service-Initializing failed (0x024e424f)"

 
Patch Links

Here are the patch links:

1.3 and 1.4 do not work!

1.0.631.00001: http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00001_from_1.0.631.00001.exe

1.0.631.00002: http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00002_from_1.0.631.00002.exe

1.0.631.00003: http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00003_from_1.0.631.00003.exe

1.0.631.00005: http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00005_from_1.0.631.00005.exe

1.0.631.00107: http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00107_from_1.0.631.00107.exe

 1.3.24.00001: akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/sims3_1.3.24.00001_from_1.2.7.00001.exe

1.3.24.00002: akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/sims3_1.3.24.00002_from_1.2.7.00002.exe

1.3.24.00003: akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/sims3_1.3.24.00003_from_1.2.7.00003.exe

1.3.24.00004: akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/sims3_1.3.24.00004_from_1.2.7.00004.exe

1.3.24.00005: akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/sims3_1.3.24.00005_from_1.2.7.00005.exe

1.3.24.00107: akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/sims3_1.3.24.00107_from_1.2.7.00107.exe


 
View Log of PlayOnLinux

1) Go to "~/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/installed"
2) Open The Sims 3 or The Sims 3 Launcher
3) Comment out
export WINEDEBUG="-all"
by placing # before so it would look like this
#export WINEDEBUG="-all"
4) Start PlayOnLinux from terminal by playonlinux
5) Run your game

Credit given to NSLW.


 

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Mods for Sims 3
by Peter on Thursday January 28th 2010, 12:15
Does anyone know how to get the Mod framework working with Wine?

I created the folders and added the files but none work.

Is there any certain requirements to make them work? I know in Windows 7 when I removed Windows Media Player they stoped working, not sure exactly what has to be installed to make it work.


Any help would be great, thx.

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A bug...
by Daniele A. on Thursday January 21st 2010, 8:17
Hello. I'm new and I'm Italian.
I installed the game The Sims 3 and it runs, but when I run the mode "Create a sim" the game close and return at the desktop.
I believe it is a bug.
Help me, please!

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  • RE: A bug... by Brian Doe on Thursday January 28th 2010, 1:20
    • RE: A bug... by Daniele A. on Thursday January 28th 2010, 9:03
      • RE: A bug... by Brian Doe on Friday January 29th 2010, 13:26
Sluggish game play
by Ian Haycox on Wednesday January 20th 2010, 3:21
Hi,

Thanks to the notes here I have managed to install and play the Sims 3, however the game is very sluggish and unresponsive. rsh'ing into the box shows CPU usage of TS3.exe at 95%+ even when the game is 'idle'

Hopefully it's just a setting I've missed - Any ideas appreciated.

What I've tried:

Linux liz 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux - 2.7Mhz AMD CPU

Wine 1.1.36

Sims patched with nocd and version 1.8.25

Nvidia 7050 onboard with nvidia 185.18.36 drivers. glxgears runs and glxinfo reports direct rendering = yes.

I've checked wine config set as Hardware rendering and also tried adding the following to regedit,

[Software\\Wine\\Direct3D] 1263909540
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"
"VideoMemorySize"=dword:00000200

and wintricks dotnet20 vcrun2005

Any ideas ?

Thanks, Ian

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No text with Intel video
by Miro on Monday December 28th 2009, 11:35
Hi Guys,

my sister really likes the game so I have been trying to make it work for the past few days. Here are my results:

1. On my wife's System 76 Panp4n laptop (nVidia 9300M, Core 2 Duo) with Ubuntu 9.10 the game, installs, patches and runs (with bypass for the copy protection).

2. On my Lenovo and my sister's HP laptops, both with Intel 4500M video, the game installs and runs, but no text is shown on any of the menus/hint boxes/anywhere. (To run the game I need to use export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib32/dri, to load the 32-bit libraries)

3. I used Virtual Box to install guest windows XP and enable 3D effects. The game installs and runs, however, text is still not shown. (there is no need to load 32-bit libraries here)

(I always remove the compiz effects by logging in into an XFCE session)

At this point I am assuming this is an issue with the Intel Linux driver, since the game runs fine on my sister's laptop with windows 7.

Has anyone seen this issue and does anyone have an idea for a workaround.

Thanks

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Cumulative patch
by Mark Carbonaro on Sunday December 27th 2009, 17:50
For those who would like a single patch download for a fresh install, try the link below, it allowed me to patch from the oldest version to the newest in a single step.

akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.8.25.003002_from_1.0.631.00002.exe

I believe this is the latest version, at the moment anyway and there is a no-cd fix available for this version.

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Patch 1.7.9
by Kaisa on Saturday December 5th 2009, 22:06
I decided to try this version, just because lots of game mods are always updated to work with the newest versions. I'm not installing any mods yet, just to see how this version runs by itself.

The links I used for downloading it:
akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.4.6.00002_from_1.2.7.00002.exe
akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.6.6.002002_from_1.4.6.00002.exe
akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.7.9.002002_from_1.6.6.002002.exe
I couldn't find any complete patches, just these incremental ones, but then again, I didn't look very long.
I also had to get an updated no-CD patch.

I've played a couple of hours since patching, and so far version 1.7.9 seems to work just fine. I checked the Options dialog, as Ric mentioned it being broken in version 1.3 & 1.4 earlier in the message chain here; for me the Options dialog appears to be working fine in version 1.7.9.

I'll keep on playing and will report here if I run into problems.

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World Adventures
by Mark Hughes on Friday December 4th 2009, 19:51
World Adventures expansion came out a few weeks ago, has anyone tried it out yet?

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ATI bugs
by Ric on Tuesday December 1st 2009, 7:47
Now that I have this game running on an ATI box it's time for a few notes.

1. The curser always has an opaque grey box around it. I guess there's trouble with alpha layers in PNG or something. As far as I can tell this is fglrx specific.

2. Texture loading appears to be slower than with nVidia. Could be my hardware or a subtle difference in Sims 3 settings, but the textures seem to load much faster on my nVidia 8100 than my Radeon HD 4200.

3. Like with nVidia, exiting the game sometimes leaves the screen too bright. Unfortunately fglrx doesn't seem to provide a method for reloading the config ike nvidia-settings does, so this requires a restart of X.

4. Occasional textures corrupt in game. Very temporary and could be because I haven't patched with the latest patches.

5. Overall stability actually seems to be better. My fiancèe played for a few hours and things didn't slow down or crash out. Although this problem was related to memory leaks on my other system and I haven't had chance to check memory usage here yet.

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Radeon HD
by Ric on Tuesday November 24th 2009, 9:04
I had the game running perfectly on my desktop, with an nVidia card. Hell, I was the one who tested the patches and advised against the 1.3 and 1.4 builds :-).

I've recently bought a new laptop with a Radeon HD 4200, and I'm using the free radeonhd drivers. The documentation is unclear but it appears that OpenGL and DRI both work fine on this system, even though the drivers implementation isn't complete.

Now I've come to installing Sims 3 though, using the same disk and patch, and I believe the same nocd crack, although I had to download that again so who knows. Following the same non-POL install routine as before (Which is now well documented here, thanks), the game won't run.

The first time I tried, it resulted in me being dumped back out in the wrong resolution before anything more than a black window had appeared. The second time, I enabled the emulated desktop and was then dumped back out after only the blue emulated desktop window appeared, not even the black screen yet. Terminal output is as follows.

$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine " Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe"
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B5G6R5_UNORM rtInternal format is not supported as FBO color attachment.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16_UNORM rtInternal format is not supported as FBO color attachment.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16B16A16_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x256ed1c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x256dc88,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_B5G6R5_UNORM rtInternal format is not supported as FBO color attachment.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16_UNORM rtInternal format is not supported as FBO color attachment.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16B16A16_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x256d234,0x00000000), stub!
X Error of failed request: GLXBadDrawable
Major opcode of failed request: 152 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 1562
Current serial number in output stream: 1562

This is Wine 1.1.33, radeonhd 1.2.5. I don't remember having to install DirectX before, I'm pretty sure Wine's implementation is enough so I'm assuming it's the radeonhd driver that's not playing nice.

Has anybody else had any luck with ATI and/or the radeonhd driver? Or has anybody had the above output with some other set up?

If nobody has any advice then consider this post a warning - The Sims 3 doesn't run as well, if at all, with the radeonhd driver. I had no trouble with the nvidia driver on my desktop.

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by andrew on Saturday November 7th 2009, 8:00
The updater from the launcher isn't working for me - I can't log in with the EA Downlaod Manager, but otherwise it seems to be working as I was able to register/active my newly purchased game with it. I think the lack of login is what's cauing the failure for the game to download the patches from the the launcher. I need to debug that issue more to see if that a wine config problem on my end.

But for the time being, I've decided to try a No CD Patch (as recommended by the maintainer). Does anyone have updated links to the above patches? The above links report back to me as invalid URL's, and the only trusted No CD patch I have won't work unless I update the game (I seem to be in a catch 22 at present time).

Thanks.

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  • RE: by andrew on Saturday November 7th 2009, 8:04
    • RE: by andrew on Saturday November 7th 2009, 15:47
cd error
by Nicholas on Thursday September 24th 2009, 18:03
Can't figure out how to fix the no cd error on playonlinux. Don't know what to do

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  • RE: cd error by hyamamoto on Monday October 19th 2009, 22:53
Gamma problem?
by tadadata on Wednesday September 23rd 2009, 1:20
I'm trying to run the Sims 3 from PlayOnLinux and when the game starts it changes video mode, sits at a blank screen for a few seconds, and dumps back to the desktop. The last line in the log is:

err:xvidmode:ComputeGammaFromRamp ramp not uniform (max=0.749709, min=0.314809, avg=0.396214), rejected

Any suggestions?

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What I need to do?
by StasiQ on Monday September 21st 2009, 3:54
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly
L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:attach_process_dlls "MSVCR80.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"\\Program Files\\The Sims 3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe" failed, status c0000142

Fix by installing vcrun2005sp1 with "winetricks vcrun2005sp1"

I installed vcrun2005sp1, however it doesn't work yet

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Please add the fix for bug 18991
by Pablo Marchant on Monday September 7th 2009, 17:13
Could someone please add to the instructions the fix for bug 18991 (crash loading a town). With that bug being closed and not appearing in the bug-list, it's hard for new users to find it...

bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18991

There I posted the solution right at the bottom.

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Runtime Error! R6025
by zak on Monday August 31st 2009, 9:49
I have purchased the sims 3, have the original game disc and serial etc, my problem is not that I downloaded it!

So anyway, I get the Service-Initializing failed (0x024e424f) error then it says Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error!
R6025 - pure virtual function call.

I googled this and couldn't find anything I could make sense of.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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This application cannot be gold!
by Juan Pablo V. - Polycarpio on Saturday August 29th 2009, 13:51
The Sims 3 fail to start in some system configurations. In those systems, this is Garbage... not Gold

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* Assertion at ..\..\mono\mono\metadata\icall.c:5454, condition `err' not met
by Cleber on Tuesday August 18th 2009, 14:50
I just wanted to report I was suffering from bug 18991, then I have changed my timezone from (America/Sao_Paulo) to (America/Bahia) and the bug is gone.
This bug is caused by the mono version wich is embedded in The Sims 3, and some timezones make mono crash.
If you're seeing this error message, and the game is crashing, try changing you system's timezone.
This should be added to the howto.

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A note on VC Runtime stuff
by Dylan McCall on Sunday August 16th 2009, 17:41
This one had me stumped for ages!

I bumped into this probably because I copied the installed directory from Windows into Wine's drive_c (which, in the end, works!).

I had installed vcrun2005 with winetricks, but still got this error:
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:attach_process_dlls "MSVCR80.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"E:\\media\\VistaOS\\Program Files\\The Sims 3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe" failed, status c0000142

Installing vcrun2005sp1 (surprise!) with "winetricks vcrun2005sp1" gets everything working :)
(And gee, I think the menu loads faster in Wine than it did in Windows. Wine is just awesome these days).

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Screen Brightness
by Gregori on Saturday August 15th 2009, 21:33
For those that use nvidia cards, after entering the game, use the command 'nvidia-settings -l' (in terminal) or just launch the nvidia panel to solve the brightness problem. If the problem appears again, just repeat the command.

- sorry my english, it's not my native language -

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Patch 1.4.6
by Ric on Thursday August 6th 2009, 22:34
This looks to be a new build of the previous 1.3.24 patch, so hopefully it will fix at least some of the bugs the previous patch brought in! These require the 1.3.24 patch to already be present!

akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.4.6.00001_from_1.3.24.00001.exe
akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.4.6.00002_from_1.3.24.00002.exe
akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.4.6.00003_from_1.3.24.00003.exe

(Can't find the official links to 00004-00006, sorry. There's plenty of 3rd party hosts out there if you trust them though).

akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.4.6.00107_from_1.3.24.00107.exe

Once again I'll install and post back my findings.

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Patching
by Mear on Friday July 31st 2009, 7:24
First of all, the only problem I had when installing (without Playonlinux) was a message saying "The Sims 3 cannot run. The installation is incomplete. Please reinstall and try again". Removing msvcr80.dll didn't help at all, simply caused it not to launch at all. If someone has the same problem, importing some registry files ( download401.filefront.com/k0n7ztw2u3tg/13921708/Sims_3_installation_verifd.rar) with regedit solved it for me.

Second, I'm curious to know if someone has successfully patched the game from file without using Playonlinux? When I try to run the Sims3_1.2.7.00002_from_1.0.631.00002.exe it simply tells me that "The setup has detected that no previous version of The Sims 3 is installed". I read that mods could cause this, but I've go nothing installed but the game itself. Any suggestions?

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Downloading content note
by Greg Noe on Wednesday July 29th 2009, 21:49
Just wanted to note that I was able to download content (at least the Rivertown) by launching the Launcher from within the game, killing the TS3.exe process (launcher won't let you download while the game is running), and then just downloading like usual.

I installed the game using PlayOnLinux, and the Rivertown was downloaded to ~/.Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Downloads

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by Greg Noe on Wednesday July 29th 2009, 7:05
Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop 64-bit
2.6.28-14-generic

I'll try to take a look through the bugs too, thanks.

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Issues with running in full screen
by Greg Noe on Tuesday July 28th 2009, 23:18
I used PlayOnLinux to install the game and then updated Sims 3 to the latest version. I have an Nvidia card and have dual monitors (using TwinView) and whenever I run in full screen, it only shows the game on my main monitor but as if the game is stretched across both. Hard to explain, but basically the game is running at 2560x1024 but only showing the left half of the screen on my main X monitor.

If I disable TwinView and my second monitor, the same thing happens, so I'm confused how that could happen.

Besides the brightness issues, things work beautifully so far in a virtualized desktop (1024x768).

Let me know if you have any other questions about my setup. I don't have Compiz enabled but I do have desktop effects. I have an Nvidia 9800 GTX+ (512 MB).

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Wont start!
by Edward on Saturday July 25th 2009, 18:48
Installed with Playonlinux which automatically uses the right wine version, patches etc. When I start the game I get this in terminal:

Running The Sims 3
wine_main_preload_info not found
wine client error:9: write: Bad file descriptor

Ive tried using the no-cd, the original .exe, nothing works. Same error every time.

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Condition `err' not met?
by Ahmed Elmahdawy on Saturday July 11th 2009, 3:25
Hello,

I'm trying to get The Sims 3 to run under Ubuntu 9.04. I've followed the instructions in the HowTo Guide above, and I managed to install the game successfully.
When I try to create a new neighborhood, the game loads about 1/6 of the load bar and it immediately closes.
Just before the crash, I get this error in the terminal:
Assertion at ..\..\mono\mono\metadata\icall.c:5454, condition `err' not met.
I didn't even find a \mono\mono\metadata\icall.c in the source. Any ideas?

Regards,
Propeng

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by Vladimir Filippov on Tuesday July 7th 2009, 11:48
forgot to say:
Ubuntu 8.04

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