Sims 3 Steam version won't launch. with Ubuntu 12.10 by lolan on Friday May 3rd 2013, 19:14 Hi all, I have PlayonLinux and Wine 4.1 installed, both of which I believe are up to date. I have the Steam version of The Sims 3. Whenever I try to launch the game, a box pops up for maybe one second that says "set up microscoft part one" or some such thing. Then the screen just flickers and nothing happens. Any advice? I can't download the game from another site right now. I want to use Steam anyway. Please help me get this great game running! Thank you! [post new] [reply to this]

Raw input broke the pause key by David on Saturday March 23rd 2013, 6:46 Since Wine 1.5.13, which introduced "raw input", the pause key (key to the left of the number "1", above the TAB key) doesn't work. Using the "0" or "P" key to pause works, but it is very inconvenient. I use a Spanish keyboard. Changing the keyboard configuration in KDE to "Generic 105-key (intl)" doesn't help. I've run of ideas of what to try. Any help? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Raw input broke the pause key by David on Saturday March 23rd 2013, 12:45

Sims 3 Pets - the infamous "no fluff" bug by Gareth Hart on Tuesday January 29th 2013, 18:14 Does anyone who is currently playing The Sims 3 with the Pets expansion pack installed have any fluff displayed correctly on their animals in game? Particularly for anyone whom plays with an NVidia graphics card installed. I'm seeing graphical corruption where the fluff should be. It's difficult to fathom whether this could be a bug within Wine, the NVidia drivers or something else. FYI, I'm using a NVidia GeForce GT 555M. [post new] [reply to this]

Sims 3 Crash when clicking "play" button by Zootal on Thursday January 24th 2013, 15:29 1) Signup does not work, but you can sign up at website 2) Login works 3) Clicking the big blue play button causes crash: wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x027f2198 at address 0xf75fd995 (thread 00b7), starting debugger... It does this with both wine 1.4.1 and 1.5.22. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Sims 3 Crash when clicking by Zootal on Saturday January 26th 2013, 16:07

IstallWizzard looks different comparing to the installation video by Sandra on Sunday January 13th 2013, 8:18 I'm not totally sure what is wrong with my installation procedure. When I open Sims3Setup.exe a window opens showing an orange install button for origin. I have no other options then click it. Afterwards it installs origin and the installation continues quite well. But I don't have options to select my country or the folder for the installed files. In addition, the windows at the end (where you can select whether you want a launcher or not and whether you want to see the ReadMe) are not there. I'm forced to do the installation via Origin which never appears in the installation video mentioned above. When I try to patch my version, wine says, that I should try another patch because i'm registered at a wrong location. But I had no choice to select my location eighter. Last but not least, Sims 3 is not running and wine says I should reinstall the base game. My system: Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit Nvidia Geforce Gt 520M Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 [post new] [reply to this]

Launcher by Josh Raymond on Wednesday December 26th 2012, 23:01 I can't get the launcher working for whatever reason. I have dotnet20 installed and vcrun2005 whenever i open the launcher i get an error "Cannot start, please reinstall the game" after reinstalling, same problem. [post new] [reply to this]

Expansions and launcher by Gustavo on Wednesday October 10th 2012, 17:58 So, I installed The Sims 3 base game + latest patch. Is it safe to just install the expansions normally? Do I need to follow any specific order? By the way, I cannot get the desktop launcher to work. If I type optirun env WINEPREFIX="/home/gus/.wine" TZ="America/Halifax" wine ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3W.exe" onto the Terminal, it will run the game, but clicking the icon on the desktop will not! Can anybody help? Thanks in advance. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Expansions and launcher by Alberto on Thursday October 11th 2012, 5:15

• RE: Expansions and launcher by Gustavo on Friday October 12th 2012, 10:14

Updates by Alberto on Wednesday October 3rd 2012, 11:50 Quando eu instalo the sims 3 sem expansão ou atualizações funciona normalmente. Quando eu aplico qualquer patch o the sims 3 não funciona mais se alguém puder ajudar a resolver o problema! When I install the sims 3 expansion or upgrades without works normally. When I apply any patch the sims 3 does not work anymore if someone can help solve the problem! [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Updates by Samuel William on Wednesday October 3rd 2012, 16:50

• RE: Updates by Samuel William on Tuesday October 9th 2012, 16:03

TS3 always freezing on start-up? by Grace on Tuesday September 25th 2012, 3:14 When the game automaticaly resizes my screen, everything is OK. But then, when the loading menu is supposed to appear, the screen dims itself to show the program is not responding. Right-clicking on the Wine Program Loader Symbol on my sidebar and selecting quit also tells me "The Sims 3 is not responding" and I quit it. It's never done this before and I'm not sure what to do. I'm running Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04, and it has been fine before, its just today. I have cleared out the mods, done everything. The game isn't working! Help! [post new] [reply to this]

Wine not opening TS3 properly? by Grace on Monday September 24th 2012, 23:42 When I initiate the process, which runs as normal, my screen usually 'splits' like in the picture below. After this, within about 15 seconds, the loading screen would appear and the game would work as normal, however now it just stay at the split screen and doesn't load. I have a few mods and am thinking about trying to run the game without them but ultimately its necessary to have the mods. Does anyone have this problem, or have you had and fixed it? Cheers [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Wine not opening TS3 properly? by embun on Friday November 30th 2012, 10:37

Custom Content by Josh Raymond on Monday September 17th 2012, 2:10 Well it appears that in the newest version of the Sims store, you're unable to download custom content as .package or .sims3package files, the only option for these is to download them throught he launcher, requiering java script. I'm not sure if it's just me, just my wine setup, or what, but java script doesnt seem to work very well for me, at least in this regard. On windows, you click "Download" on the website, it opens the launcher and downloads/installs the content. in WINE, it does nothing. Absolutly nothing. Anyone got any ideas in how to fix this? (Using Firefox in WINE, as IE insta crashes for w.e reason) [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Custom Content by Robert Wm Ruedisueli on Monday September 17th 2012, 10:21

• RE: Custom Content by Josh Raymond on Saturday September 22nd 2012, 1:14

• RE: Custom Content by Grace on Monday September 24th 2012, 23:37

Graphic problem by erickblack on Saturday August 25th 2012, 14:37 Well, the game is working great but sometimes happen some "graphic" problem. i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w470/Kiakumio/c3578389.png What I have to do? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Graphic problem by Samuel William on Saturday August 25th 2012, 18:30

screen with no text by erickblack on Thursday August 23rd 2012, 8:45 I don't know why, when I execute the game the screen gets shorter and every "window" does't contain text: i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w470/Kiakumio/8d731123.png Do you have a patch for this? What I have to do? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: screen with no text by Samuel William on Thursday August 23rd 2012, 23:59

program error by Jonny on Saturday August 11th 2012, 20:48 the program ts3w.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.we are sorry for the inconvenience. i got this when i upgraded to wine 1.5.10 help??? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: program error by Grace on Monday September 24th 2012, 23:44

Versions by Aleksi on Thursday August 9th 2012, 9:13 Edit: I'm using version 1.36 of The Sims 3 and version 1.4.1 of Wine. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Versions by Samuel William on Saturday August 18th 2012, 2:15

• RE: Versions by Aleksi on Saturday August 18th 2012, 4:55

• RE: Versions by Samuel William on Friday August 24th 2012, 0:36

The game falls when loading town by Aleksi on Thursday August 9th 2012, 9:12 I've installed the expansion packs from World Adventures to Pets, using version 1.36 and no-cd mod (no crack!). The game itself starts and works fine, but when I try to load any town, game freezes. Immediately the mouse pointer changes from "loading" to "pointer" and finally "Ubuntu pointer". Loading bar doesn't move. Is it possible to fix it, and could this be consequence of expansion packs? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: The game falls when loading town by Aleksi on Friday August 10th 2012, 9:22
• RE: The game falls when loading town by Aleksi on Friday August 10th 2012, 9:57

Created thumbnails are gray, old ones are in color by John on Wednesday August 1st 2012, 17:31 Definitely a problem on the creation side. Thumbnails for default families/houses and downloaded ones are in perfect color. Nothing to complain about there. The problem occurs when creating new objects. The color is a grayscale and very light - almost ghosted. It seems what you would see if you broke an image up by color components in GIMP. Not a true grayscale image, but you can clearly tell the pixel structure is the same. It is drawing the right pictures, but it's very hard to see since its only gray shades and very light. I tried to delete the thumbnails in both the saved games folder and the sims 3 main folder. Nothing happens. I don't know what is causing this. Everything else works well aside from a few glitches rendering roads, but then I am playing on minimal settings. The game plays perfectly and the actual 3D imagery is rendered properly considering my settings. Sound is good too, so it's probably not a DirectX problem. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with a few KDE updates installed. My wine version is 1.2.3, and I'm using the built-in PlayOnLinux wrapper for the Sims 3. The version of the game itself is 1.2.7 with no-CD patch. Here are some images showing what is happening: i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd515/Parkitect/other/sims.jpg i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd515/Parkitect/other/houses.jpg The above images have created items on the right, downloaded ones in the middle, and default ones on the right. As you can see, it only affects the ones created with my game ran with wine. It draws everything else as it should be, so the error is in the creation of the thumbnail images, not displaying correctly-created ones. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Created thumbnails are gray, old ones are in color by John on Tuesday December 18th 2012, 13:37

The Sims 3 v1.36.46 crashes on load screen by Wingnux on Friday July 20th 2012, 19:11 I've tried different wine versions, installing on playonlinux, no cd patches and nothing works. It always crashes at the beggining of the loading screen. camila@camila-desktop ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin $ wine TS3W.exe fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 2 p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: Não é possivel abrir arquivo de objetos compartilhado: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 180, std (d/m/y): 26/02/2012, dlt (d/m/y): 21/10/2012 fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e6b8,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33ca94,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33c9d4,0x00000000), stub! fixme:ddraw:ddraw7_Initialize Ignoring guid {aeb2cdd4-6e41-43ea-941c-8361cc760781}. fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {33d9a760-90c8-11d0-bd43-00a0c911ce86} not found fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {33d9a761-90c8-11d0-bd43-00a0c911ce86} not found fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint Winepulse is not officially supported by the wine project fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint For sound related feedback and support, please visit ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1960599 fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb41-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb46-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xf8): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1d0): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1dc): stub fixme:xinput:XInputGetState (0 0x33eb9c) fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 94 (SPI_GETMOUSETRAILS) fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 4124 (SPI_GETMOUSESONAR) fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8. fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8. fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x220): stub fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8. fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8. fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8. fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8. fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8. fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x238): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x244): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x250): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x254): stub fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT/DATA_SEND_TIMEOUT 50000 fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationA (hwnd=0x60022, filter=0x33eb38,flags=0x00000000) returns a fake device notification handle! fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x25c): stub fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:27 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x25c): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x294): stub fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 4 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 6 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 6 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 6 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 6 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 6 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 6 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 4 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:dsound:DSOUND_RecalcFormat Conversion from 6 to 2 channels is not implemented, falling back to stereo fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x298): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x29c): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2fc): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2e4): stub fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x93aed90): semi-stub fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x60022, 0x93aed90): stub fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x244): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2e8): stub fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:28 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:28 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:29 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:29 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:29 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:29 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:30 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:30 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:30 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:30 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:31 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:31 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:31 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:32 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:32 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2f8): stub fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:33 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:33 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1e4): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2d8): stub fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1e0): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2e0): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2dc): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2fc): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x304): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x300): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x30c): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x308): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x310): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x314): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x318): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x31c): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x320): stub fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:33 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:34 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:34 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:35 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:URLCacheContainer_CleanIndex (L"" L"C:\\users\\camila\\Local Settings\\Temporary Internet Files\\Content.IE5\\") semi-stub fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:36 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:36 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:39 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:40 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:41 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:42 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:43 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2f0): stub fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:wininet:set_cookie persistent cookies not handled (L"expires=Sat, 21-Jul-2012 00:22:43 GMT;path=/;domain=igs.thesims3.com;httponly") fixme:wininet:set_cookie httponly not handled (L"httponly") fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do! fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1e0): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2b8): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2bc): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2d8): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2e8): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2f4): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2f8): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x2fc): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x300): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x308): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x304): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x30c): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x314): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x310): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x318): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x31c): stub * Assertion at ..\..\mono\mono\metadata\icall.c:5454, condition `err' not met fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 at address 0x58b816 (thread 003a), starting debugger... camila@camila-desktop ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin $ Process of pid=0008 has terminated No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Modules:' Cannot get info on module while no process is loaded No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Threads:' process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 0000000e services.exe 00000020 0 0000001f 0 00000015 0 00000010 0 0000000f 0 00000012 winedevice.exe 0000001d 0 0000001a 0 00000014 0 00000013 0 0000001b plugplay.exe 00000021 0 0000001e 0 0000001c 0 00000022 explorer.exe 00000023 0 winedbg: Internal crash at 0x7ed4cb0a [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: The Sims 3 v1.36.46 crashes on load screen by Samuel William on Thursday August 2nd 2012, 10:04

• RE: The Sims 3 v1.36.46 crashes on load screen by Wingnux on Wednesday August 8th 2012, 9:47

Text and other textures fix by Mikel Pr on Tuesday July 17th 2012, 3:16 If you're getting blurry/very bold/black text and some textures just don't appear, it's because your graphics driver lacks S3TC texture compression. Only proprietary drivers implement it due to patent problems. FOSS drivers such as nouveau, radeon and intel use Mesa libraries, which can't have an S3TC implementation due to patent issues. However, they can plug into S3TC decoding libraries, such as libtxc-dxtn. If you wish to keep using the FOSS drivers (mandatory for Intel graphics cards, in some cases radeon being better than Catalyst, or just trying out nouveau) you have to install libtxc-dxtn. On Ubuntu: search for libtxc-dxtn in Software Center (or sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn in a Terminal) On Fedora: add RPMFusion's repo and install libtxc_dxtn. If you're on a 64-bit machine install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the library! [post new] [reply to this]

SIMS3 by pete on Sunday June 24th 2012, 18:46 I get this when I run the dotnet20 install sh winetricks dotnet20 Executing w_do_call dotnet20 Executing load_dotnet20 Executing w_do_call remove_mono Executing load_remove_mono ------------------------------------------------------ Mono does not appear to be installed. ------------------------------------------------------ Executing w_do_call fontfix Executing load_fontfix Setting Windows version to win2k Executing winetricks_early_wine regedit C:\windows\Temp\_dotnet20\set-winver.reg Current wine does not have wine bug 10467, so not applying workaround Executing mkdir -p /home/lily/.cache/winetricks/dotnet20 Current wine does not have wine bug 30845, so not applying workaround Current wine does not have wine bug 30845, so not applying workaround Executing wine dotnetfx.exe fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\\users\\lily\\Temp\\IXP001.TMP\\" 00000000 fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0) fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x33f31c,0x00000001,0x33f344) stub fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x451d7c ------------------------------------------------------ Note: command 'wine dotnetfx.exe' returned status 5. Aborting. ------------------------------------------------------ ANd then SIMS3 will start - very 'jerky' but loads to the first game screen (after the IM3 loading page) with illegible graphics. Click on the 'tick' and the game just closes the window. I used this : sh winetricks directx9 comctl32 comctl32.ocx fontfix mfc40 mfc42 msls31 ole2 pdh urlmon wininet native_mdac to install the winetricks stuff Newbie to this - Am I supposed to set something up in wine ? Other stuff - EADM loads then offers to load something called origin - which also fails. (don't have any idea - the SIMS is for my daughter not me...) I was so pleased - the 'it just works' had me thinking I could wean my daughter of microsoft at last... but no SIMS & her birthday only a couple of days away ... [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: SIMS3 by pete on Monday June 25th 2012, 16:38

Can't create desktop link by Dan on Wednesday June 20th 2012, 8:31 Installation was smooth as butter. I get the gamma issue, but the terminal fix makes it easy to correct. MY issue (and I'm not entirely sure that this appropriate for the forum) is that I cannot create a link on my desktop from ts3.exe. Any time I try to run the game from the link I get an error "Unable to start game Service initialization failed (0x0175dcbb)" How-ever, everything is fine if I run it from the .wine folder. No problem to continue doing so, but it would be nice to have a working shortcut. Anybody else run into this? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Can't create desktop link by Grace on Monday September 24th 2012, 23:53

everything works except.. by Laureen on Wednesday June 13th 2012, 8:48 Hello, I've been trying to install the sims on Linux for days now. After getting mad at Windows, I decided to try Linux, and therefore I'm fairly new at it. But after my brother gave me this site I did manage to install the sims, thanks to the help from the comments as well. My only concern now, is that I cannot install fontfix - and my problem ingame is the font - it's impossible to read due to it being way too bold - and as I've read somewhere, the way to fix that is with fontfix - but I can't seem to install it via winetricks.. Anybody had that issue and know how to fix it? Thanks :) [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: everything works except.. by Samuel William on Monday June 18th 2012, 12:19

• RE: everything works except.. by Laureen on Tuesday June 19th 2012, 14:31

• RE: everything works except.. by Samuel William on Monday July 30th 2012, 13:38

Game takes forever to load by Olivia on Wednesday February 8th 2012, 9:31 After i finally installed The Sims 3 and added the patch and the No CD fix (as shown in the installation video), I've tried to run the game, but after I clicked on Sunset Valley it didn't continued loading for like 20 minutes. I don't know much about Ubuntu just the general stuff, but I would really like to switch from Windows. The problem is this game that I'm trying to make work for 3 days now. As I've seen there's a lot of people having so many problems and I couldn't find a place where all this stuff is explained as "for dummies", step-by-step. Please let me know, if anyone has any idea on how to make it work. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Game takes forever to load by Olivia on Wednesday February 8th 2012, 9:33

• RE: Game takes forever to load by Samuel William on Saturday March 17th 2012, 1:39

Ts3 by Angelica on Sunday January 1st 2012, 12:48 Hey Guys, im a new linux user. I installed The Sims 3 with OpenPlayFor linux, everything went well. But now i need to place the No CD crack. I know i cant ask it here but i cant find it on google or anything please help me :(! ~Sincerly A linux Noob [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Ts3 by Angelica on Sunday January 1st 2012, 13:10

Steam by Vh on Thursday December 29th 2011, 0:03 Just thought I'd give a quick note to anybody curious: The Steam version works perfectly and does /not/ require a crack, unlike the boxed version. Just install Steam, install dotnet20, install The Sims 3 and enjoy! Couldn't be better. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam by andrew on Tuesday January 3rd 2012, 17:32

Video Performance by andrew on Monday December 26th 2011, 21:15 I just thought I post something here - I added the Generations expansion pack (got to love Christmas presents), and totally blew up my Sims 3 install. I've managed to get it working again, though I'm currently suffering from some serious video performance issues. The problem I was having was the sound would suddenly cut out at total random (sometime's at the intro screen to running the game for an hour) and then the game would suddenly crash hard a few minutes later. After nearly a full day of fiddling, I figured out the quick fix - I had to add SndQueueMin = 1 to my HKEY_USERS -> S-1-5-21-0-0-0-1000 -> Software -> Wine -> DirectSound key. I hope this tip may help some people out. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Video Performance by Mark Hughes on Monday December 26th 2011, 21:33

• RE: Video Performance by andrew on Tuesday December 27th 2011, 0:04

• RE: Video Performance by andrew on Tuesday January 3rd 2012, 17:31

Installed via Origin in Mint 11 x64, won't run by James Lake on Sunday November 20th 2011, 21:05 As it says. I can't figure the thing out for the life of me, and we don't have a copy of the discs to try to install it the "normal" way. Running it in terminal, both in a 32bit and 64bit prefix, gives the following debug dump (the only thing that changes is the memory address given at the end): pastebin.com/AYctRRx6 winetricks has been used to install dotnet20, fontfix, and vcrun2005sp1. Native DirectX components are installed. If it helps anyone any in debugging this, the machine's status in the detail under Hardinfo is: pastebin.com/Yv0Rvwa5 Part of that data has been deliberately scrubbed to protect the client's privacy; I apologize if it causes any problems. Thanks in advance for any help with this. [post new] [reply to this]

Working on Fedora 16-64 by neil on Sunday November 6th 2011, 5:24 I installed via PlayOnLinux, and it worked famously; although it didn't grab all of the dependencies. At first, I had no sound, and no working graphics. I Installed perl-Digest-SHA due to “which: no shasum...” errors in debugger. Graphics: Need to have 32-bit video drivers, as well as 64-bit. Without, I was getting OpenGL/DX errors. rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-072bb482d4af214c8f55122a0d5a754897eb9370 fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod I had used akmod-nvidia to install the video drivers. Akmod had installed xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs, v 280 on my laptop, so I installed the i686 version as well. I installed Wine-alsa, as reportedly the pulseaduio drivers don’t work Still no sound, so installed wine-alsa.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 [post new] [reply to this]

Well ive download sims 3 and late night by Jonny on Thursday October 27th 2011, 14:08 The only problem is that i receive no sound i mean it does play half way through the loading screen then it just stops no more. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Well ive download sims 3 and late night by Dallis Brockway on Wednesday December 21st 2011, 3:30

Working with Launcher in 1.26 by StefanT on Saturday October 22nd 2011, 7:40 This is how I got the launcher working with Sims 1.26: Take a fresh wine prefix Install some stuff using winetricks: winetricks vcrun2005 flash ie8 fontfix Install the Sims 3 (DVD edition in my case) Install the latest patch Fix the CD check Done Some remarks: I use a virtual desktop and have the game running in fullscreen. Windows version is set to XP (the default). Maybe Nvidia only: I have to set the OpenGL quality in nvidia-settings to high quality. Otherwise some objects, especially some custom hairs, are broken. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Working with Launcher in 1.26 by Rob Knop on Saturday October 22nd 2011, 10:46

• RE: Working with Launcher in 1.26 by Rob Knop on Saturday October 22nd 2011, 11:03
• RE: Working with Launcher in 1.26 by Rob Knop on Saturday October 22nd 2011, 11:45
• RE: Working with Launcher in 1.26 by StefanT on Saturday October 22nd 2011, 12:06

no "readable" text and black colors by ricorico94 on Thursday October 6th 2011, 13:12 Hi, I installed a new Ubuntu 11.04 with latest Wine 1.3.29 (I hope). I installed The Sims3 and also dotnet20 using winetricks. I can thus launch the Launcher (almopst working: I only see a white page on the right when clicking the "welcome" tab: it once displayed something about flash, but I don't remember.) If I click to start the game, I can view the starting logo and the video. Then I have the welcom screen and it srtas not working anymore: I can not read any text: characters look like if there were very, very bold, and I can only see some blacks drops or points.. If ever I click on the big button, the screen shows some black landscape and fonts are still not readable.(you can see a snapshot here: dl.free.fr/v0okKs4Xh picture is not that good, but at least you can see that desktop fonts are OK while in the game window.. no way..) I tried to use Wine Config to setup display at my laptop size (1400x1050), no change. I tried to run winetricks fontfix, no change. If I start the sims using directly the icon in game folder, same behavior. I also tried to run the command in terminal (while game is playing?) xgamma, but no change. And I can not find in launcher or game where to play with screen resolution or whatever to see if it could help (I can reach what I believe is a display menu in the game, but I can not read and nothing is checked ). I'm only a beginner in Linux, so perhaps I miss something, but even after reading many posts on this forum, I don't know what to do more. Any idea ? It's an old laptop, but I used to run games on that one (under winxp), even some using heavy graphics. br Ricorico94 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: no by Hendrik Knackstedt on Thursday November 10th 2011, 12:30
• RE: no by PinkShinyRose on Monday February 6th 2012, 10:49

Just in case this is useful by ejwaxx on Friday September 30th 2011, 13:22 I recently reinstalled TS3 after rebuilding my desktop system. The game installed and ran like a champ...the first time launching it. On second launch, the game would launch fine, but no world or save files were readable. Agh! I later came to find that, once the Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 folder in My Documents was written, the game could not read it again: I could start an entire new game by launching without the TS3 folder but could not read from the folder after it existed. I eventually hypothesized that the cause might be that my /home volume uses btrfs, which was the only disk change I'd made since playing TS3 successfully on my old system. To test, I created a new directory on my (ext4) root, and lo, the game functioned normally when writing there! I was curious, so tested using the 3.1-rc8 kernel (using 3.0.4 normally) and no longer had the problem, even after moving the game files back to the btrfs mount. So it looks like I was running into a btrfs bug fixed between 3.0.4 and 3.1-rc8. Just in case anyone else runs into that issue, because I was unable to find any information when I first ran into it. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Just in case this is useful by ejwaxx on Saturday October 1st 2011, 17:33
• Fixed in stable kernel >3.0.5 by ejwaxx on Wednesday October 19th 2011, 10:41

Launcher by Samantha on Friday September 16th 2011, 1:23 The game works fine for me on both Mint 11 RC and Natty. I got the launcher to work by using winetricks to install dotnet20. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Launcher by Mark Hughes on Friday September 23rd 2011, 0:55

Can't create by Emilio on Friday August 26th 2011, 4:24 I can play the game flawlessly but I can't create a Sim, any solutions? Thanks [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Can't create by Mark Hughes on Thursday September 8th 2011, 0:50

• RE: Can't create by Emilio on Thursday September 8th 2011, 8:36

• RE: Can't create by pj on Saturday September 17th 2011, 9:06

• RE: Can't create by Emilio on Saturday September 17th 2011, 9:18

• RE: Can't create by Ruben Bakker on Saturday October 1st 2011, 12:00

• RE: Can't create by Emilio on Saturday October 1st 2011, 13:20

• RE: Can't create by Ruben Bakker on Saturday October 1st 2011, 13:40

• RE: Can't create by Veronica Orozco on Wednesday October 5th 2011, 9:26

No need for hacked exe by Guilherme Furst on Friday August 19th 2011, 10:08 You don't to search a hacked no cd exe and dlls I have The Sims 3 installed with all EP and up to latest patch, if you know a little bit about modding the sims it will be easy. www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?/topic/110-the-nocd/ There you can find an simple script mod which will disable the cd checking as long as you start from TS3W.exe There is also a useful guide to install mods, in that forum and here as well: modthesims.info It is great because you can enjoy your original game, update and install new patches without all the hassle. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: No need for hacked exe by Mark Hughes on Thursday September 8th 2011, 0:51

• RE: No need for hacked exe by neil on Sunday November 6th 2011, 5:12

game does not load by luke on Saturday July 30th 2011, 16:06 After starting the game, w/ town life stuff pack installed, the main cinematic intro starts and works, however once that is finished and the main loading screen comes up, there is never any progress on the green loading bar. It basically forever stays grey. Anyone else have this problem? [post new] [reply to this]

Tryed the fixes suggested but the game still crashes when loading a town by Larissa on Friday July 22nd 2011, 18:55 Guys it's been about a week that I'm trying to make The Sims 3 work here and unsuccessfull. I've already installed some patches, reinstalled wine, updated to the newer Mono version, used this fix: env WINEPREFIX="/home/larissa/.wine-sims" TZ="America/Bahia" wine "/home/larissa/.wine/drive_c/Arquivos de programas/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe" and the game always crashes when loading the town... when I run using the 'env wineprefix' I get this log: fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762) fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 180, std (d/m/y): 0/00/0000, dlt (d/m/y): 0/00/0000 fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT__set_abort_behavior _WRITE_CALL_REPORTFAULT unhandled fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32eb34,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ce00,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32cd10,0x00000000), stub! fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {33d9a760-90c8-11d0-bd43-00a0c911ce86} not found fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {33d9a761-90c8-11d0-bd43-00a0c911ce86} not found fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA NVidia, disabling mixer I'm already tired of trying. Does anyone have a tip? I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) 12gb ram GTX 460 Wine 1.3.24 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Tryed the fixes suggested but the game still crashes when loading a town by Mark Hughes on Friday July 22nd 2011, 22:37
• RE: Tryed the fixes suggested but the game still crashes when loading a town by JeffZ on Friday July 22nd 2011, 23:30

• RE: Tryed the fixes suggested but the game still crashes when loading a town by Larissa on Saturday July 23rd 2011, 10:27

Installation and gameplay! by Jake ward on Sunday July 17th 2011, 5:14 How to install in Linux: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hRxlyeyIo Old gameplay in Linux: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxaEwRoNsWQ New gameplay in Linux (recorded with GLC) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfusLZHwQ58 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Installation and gameplay! by Mark Hughes on Sunday July 17th 2011, 7:24

Game runs ok, but weird graphic glitch by Guilherme Furst on Thursday July 14th 2011, 10:16 Hi people, my game amazingly ok, i'm found some weird screen stuff at very specific locations. For sure in the Aquarius club in Bridgetown, if i zoom i see triangles coming out from the center of the screen, it also appears in camera mode, its not game breaking but is annoying. I have screen shots attached in this thread: modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=448528 Since i don't really know if its a bug with wine or the game itself. Has anyone came across something like this? Thanks! [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Game runs ok, but weird graphic glitch by Guilherme Furst on Thursday July 14th 2011, 12:30
• RE: Game runs ok, but weird graphic glitch by Vladimir Nikšić on Sunday May 20th 2012, 3:11

D'oh by Fabel on Saturday June 11th 2011, 7:14 I restarded my computer and now Sims doesn't work anymore. The same output in the terminal as before! Help? ;) [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: D'oh by Mark Hughes on Saturday June 25th 2011, 4:20

Sims 3 works perfectly, but chrashes after 2 minutes by Fabel on Saturday June 11th 2011, 4:44 Hi! I was able to install and run my game on Ubuntu. As the headlines say, my game works normal, but only for about 3 Minutes. I can do everything, for instance create a sims or build a home, but after 3 minutes it chrashes. Help? :) Ubuntu 11.04, Wine 1.2.2 ATI GPU Termianl: Process of pid=001e has terminated No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Modules:' Cannot get info on module while no process is loaded No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Threads:' process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 0000000e services.exe 0000001c 0 00000014 0 00000010 0 0000000f 0 00000011 winedevice.exe 00000018 0 00000017 0 00000013 0 00000012 0 00000019 winedevice.exe 0000001d 0 0000001b 0 0000001a 0 00000020 explorer.exe 00000021 0 You must be attached to a process to run this command. No process loaded, cannot execute 'detach' Would be cool, if you know something about my problem. Maybe it has to do with the cache? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Sims 3 works perfectly, but chrashes after 2 minutes by Fabel on Saturday June 11th 2011, 5:00

Please update test data. by Sanley on Monday June 6th 2011, 17:29 TS3 Launcher - do install new content. The Origin do works, normally updates itself. The only thing that is not working - updating sims 3 itself. So i think u need update your test data about launcher. Proof - Already installed: img847.imageshack.us/img847/1411/screenshot8s.png DBC size: img845.imageshack.us/img845/130/screenshot9l.png What is gonna be installed: img19.imageshack.us/img19/6981/screenshot10po.png Sims 3 Installer Startup: img194.imageshack.us/img194/2553/screenshot11ff.png Sims 3 Installer DO installs sims3pack's: img560.imageshack.us/img560/9084/screenshot12es.png Sims 3 Installer installed sims3packs: img196.imageshack.us/img196/2130/screenshot13q.png Sims 3 Launcher cheked installed-true: img705.imageshack.us/img705/6447/screenshot14j.png DBC filesize is now different: img827.imageshack.us/img827/726/screenshot15jk.png [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Please update test data. by Sanley on Monday June 6th 2011, 17:40

missing walls by fr on Saturday May 28th 2011, 9:04 Hi! I managed to get the game installed, running it in version 1.19.44 with no-cd-crack. Unfortunately, all Walls of the buildings are missing. Additionally, wherever there is a window or a door, the wall is actually displayed and going through that, so when my sim enters a building, he walks through a wall. Any Idea how to fix this? Regards, Florian [post new] [reply to this]

• [Solved] RE: missing walls by fr on Saturday May 28th 2011, 15:35

Garbled text on load, crashes after clicking on Sun Valley by Paul K on Friday April 8th 2011, 22:15 Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 ATI 5770HD Wine 1.3.17 GameVersion = 1.0.615.00107 The opening video plays well. Next I see a black screen with the blue circular dotted cursor. Soon after garbled text scrolls from the bottom right to left and I am left with a picture of the valley with a square button to click. Once I click on that button, the app crashes. Here's the log: $ wine ts3.exe fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ed84,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32d9cc,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32d3f0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32d4e0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {33d9a760-90c8-11d0-bd43-00a0c911ce86} not found fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {33d9a761-90c8-11d0-bd43-00a0c911ce86} not found fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HD-Audio Generic, disabling mixer fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb41-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb46-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x9c): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x150): stub fixme:xinput:XInputGetState (0 0x32f244) fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 94 (SPI_GETMOUSETRAILS) fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 4124 (SPI_GETMOUSESONAR) fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x54534e49 (as fourcc: INST) WINED3DFORMAT! fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x54534e49) in the format lookup table fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x158): stub fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x34324644 (as fourcc: DF24) WINED3DFORMAT! fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x34324644) in the format lookup table fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x36314644 (as fourcc: DF16) WINED3DFORMAT! fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x36314644) in the format lookup table fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x36314644 (as fourcc: DF16) WINED3DFORMAT! fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x36314644) in the format lookup table fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x36314644 (as fourcc: DF16) WINED3DFORMAT! fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x36314644) in the format lookup table fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x198): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1b4): stub fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x3b7f260,0x3b7f160): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1b8): stub fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x3b7f050,0x3b7f560): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1fc): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1e4): stub fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x1682d0): semi-stub fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x50022, 0x1682d0): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1f8): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1f8): stub fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Garbled text on load, crashes after clicking on Sun Valley by Mark Hughes on Friday April 8th 2011, 22:23

• RE: Garbled text on load, crashes after clicking on Sun Valley by Paul K on Saturday April 9th 2011, 6:16

• RE: Garbled text on load, crashes after clicking on Sun Valley by Paul K on Saturday April 16th 2011, 14:53

• RE: Garbled text on load, crashes after clicking on Sun Valley by Mark Hughes on Saturday April 23rd 2011, 23:48

Blackout with no access by Jacob Brown on Thursday March 24th 2011, 23:19 Hi all, I have tried to get the Sims 3 working on my Current Ubuntu laptop (Quad core with 18G ram and New NVidia graphics) using the defaults and I get a black screen, no error and no getting out of it without forcing a reboot. I then disabled shadowing and get an error that term failed to print. I'm using the noCD patch because the DVD failed to install correctly and after installing from HD left the EXE asking for a disc. I also tested on PlayOnLinux. Any thoughts? [post new] [reply to this]

• Finally got a good output. by Jacob Brown on Friday March 25th 2011, 1:41
• Disabled shading by Jacob Brown on Saturday March 26th 2011, 2:58
• RE: Blackout with no access by Jacob Brown on Friday April 1st 2011, 1:14

Help!!! by Elain ap'Morrygan on Sunday February 27th 2011, 11:04 Okay so I found what I think to be a reliable no cd/dvd crack, but i have no idea how to use it. It would also be amazing if someone could tell me where to get the patches and how to install them. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Help!!! by Elain ap'Morrygan on Sunday February 27th 2011, 11:59
• RE: Help!!! by Jacob Brown on Friday March 25th 2011, 0:34

by Elain ap'Morrygan on Saturday January 22nd 2011, 13:07 I can not seem to find a no cd dvd crack for the game. Can someone post the link and explain how to use it? Thank you. :) [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by jacqui on Tuesday February 22nd 2011, 23:55

Launcher works with dotnet20, even kind of works with mono28 by Dan Kegel on Friday January 21st 2011, 21:19 Sims3Launcher seems stable with dotnet20, but I was curious about whether mono was good enough. With winetricks mono28 gdiplus I was able to start Sims3Launcher.exe sometimes, and clicking the Play button even got it to at least do a disc check. Since I expected it to not work at all, I was impressed... [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Launcher works with dotnet20, even kind of works with mono28 by Mark Hughes on Wednesday February 23rd 2011, 0:33

Finally got it working but crashes during gameplay by Merel Fabré on Friday January 14th 2011, 14:12 Phew finally got it working after an evening of searching on the net and trial and error. Did everything according to this site. Only had trouble with the netframe 2.0. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and worked fine. Deleted dotnet20 in the cache file before doing that. Note also tried installing in virtualbox, dont try it, apparantly you can only set the graphic card to 128 which is why the game wont run. Now on to my problem: I can load a town, create a sim, move in a household en start decorating a home but then it crashes. This is the output I got in my terminal: Checking plugin: Advanced Wine Configuration... Checking plugin: Offline PlayOnLinux... Checking plugin: Capture... Checking plugin: Transgaming Cedega... Checking plugin: Wine Import... Checking plugin: Wine Look... Checking plugin: Detour... The PlayOnLinux repository needs to be updated. Running The Sims 3 DateTime.FromBinary: CEE_RET: value type stack: 32Motive.GetMotiveBackColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 32Motive.GetMotiveBackColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 48Motive.GetMotiveBackColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 64Motive.GetMotiveBackColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 80Motive.GetMotiveBackColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 96Motive.GetMotiveFillColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 32Motive.GetMotiveFillColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 48Motive.GetMotiveFillColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 64Motive.GetMotiveFillColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 80Motive.GetMotiveFillColor: CEE_RET: value type stack: 96ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 48ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 48ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 72ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 72ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 96ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 120ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 144ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 168ThumbnailHelper.GetCouplePoseInfo: CEE_RET: value type stack: 192MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 32MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 48MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 64MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 80MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 96MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 112MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 128MapTagsModel.GetVenueIconKey: CEE_RET: value type stack: 144The Sims 3: line 6: 5225 Segmentation fault wine "TS3.exe" $@ Anybody had this problem and how to fix this? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Finally got it working but crashes during gameplay by Mark Hughes on Friday January 14th 2011, 20:03

how to install by PopcornGirl on Friday January 7th 2011, 21:34 Yeah, I'm a complete newbie to even Ubuntu--I was wondering how to even start the install for Sims 3. Can someone give me a step-by-step? I really don't know what I'm doing. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: how to install by PopcornGirl on Friday January 7th 2011, 21:58

• RE: how to install by Jason Chandler on Wednesday January 12th 2011, 13:19

Sims don't display text by Deve on Wednesday January 5th 2011, 7:12 I have a problem with playing sims 3. I can install and run game, but i don't see any text. On windows with messages don't write anything. Also land with houses can't be displayed. I attach screens with it. img210.imageshack.us/img210/4529/screen1gl.jpg img257.imageshack.us/img257/8367/screen2mf.jpg img64.imageshack.us/img64/9766/screen3m.jpg img405.imageshack.us/img405/5517/screen4mf.jpg In console may be read: fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status Location SFLAG_INTEXTURE (0x40). fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status Color attachment 0: (0x407ee68) WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM 800x600 fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status Depth attachment: (0x1959b8) WINED3DFMT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT 1024x768 err:d3d_draw:drawStridedFast >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION (0x506) from glDrawArrays @ drawprim.c / 48 fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status FBO status GL_FRAMEBUFFER_UNSUPPORTED (0x8cdd) Problem with graphic card? But game can run. Why it can't display text? I have graphic card Intel 915 (128mb). Wine 1.3.8, 1.3.9 (on wine 1.2.1 I see black screen) Debian squeeze/sid winetricks gdiplus d3dx9 dotnet20 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Sims don't display text by Tuulikki on Monday April 4th 2011, 21:05

• RE: Sims don't display text by Deve on Saturday April 9th 2011, 9:58

• RE: Sims don't display text by Tuulikki on Tuesday April 12th 2011, 11:31

• RE: Sims don't display text by Deve on Wednesday April 13th 2011, 2:29

• RE: Sims don't display text by Stratus on Saturday June 4th 2011, 14:24

Not sure how to describe my problem by Ken on Sunday January 2nd 2011, 17:23 The game installed fine for me and will start up with no sound... I fixed the no sound with padsp. But when I get past the opening little video There are just random looking lines and colors. I took a video using gtk-recordmydesktop and converted it to avi(for some reason there is a diagonal line going through my video). www.mediafire.com/?jlyo95zlr3bww5a But in the video I show the command I am using to start the game... Then when the opening video starts to play I click through it and then you can see what I see. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. [post new] [reply to this]

Install fine, but can't start by Tomas on Sunday December 19th 2010, 10:28 Install went fine. Updated to latest patches and installed no-cd-fix. But when running nothing happens, not even an error message. Tried PlayOnLinux but with the same results. Also tried with newer Wine version (1.3.9), skipping Sims patches, installing stuff via winetricks which people recommends; same results... Running with: WINEPREFIX=/home/tomas/.wine_apps/sims3 wine C:\\Program\ Files\\Electronic\ Arts\\The\ Sims\ 3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe OpenSUSE 11.3, 64-bit $ rpm -q nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop x11-video-nvidiaG02 wine-32bit wine nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-260.19.21_k2.6.34.0_12-19.1.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-260.19.21-20.1.x86_64 wine-32bit-1.2-0.1.1.i586 wine-1.2-0.1.1.x86_64 Sims patch: 1.18.9 Gfx-card: Asus EN210 (nvidia GeForce GT 210, 1024MB) [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Install fine, but can't start by Tomas on Monday December 27th 2010, 9:57

Sims3Launcher Version 1.18.90 freezes on by Adam Malcontenti-Wilson on Friday December 17th 2010, 7:41 Hi. I've managed to upgrade all the way to 1.18.90, but the Sims3Launcher works as well as can be expected until you click the "Play" button. Clicking "Play" freezes the launcher and produces err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x104a3bc0 "?" wait timed out in thread 0009, blocked by 002f, retrying (60 sec errors Is this something that if I wait 1/2 an hour it will work or is this a bug? It seems that running TS3.exe directly works however. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Sims3Launcher Version 1.18.90 freezes on by Mark Hughes on Friday December 17th 2010, 8:30

Indeterminate Polygons After Intro Video by Jonathan Pittard on Monday December 6th 2010, 20:12 I'm trying to install Sims 3 Vanilla on a laptop running Ubuntu Maverick. I've installed the latest dev version of wine, the Sims application, and the latest cumulative patch. The intro video plays successfully, then I get a bunch of random screen-filling polys at what is supposed to be the loading screen. The application is obviously running, as the sound fade-in/fade-out behavior works and the mouse cursor changes. I have tried glsl-disable, although that is all I have installed with winetricks. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Indeterminate Polygons After Intro Video by Coty M. on Monday December 6th 2010, 23:08

• RE: Indeterminate Polygons After Intro Video by Coty M. on Monday December 6th 2010, 23:09

• RE: Indeterminate Polygons After Intro Video by Jonathan Pittard on Sunday December 12th 2010, 19:27

Interface not displaying by RS on Tuesday November 30th 2010, 2:55 On my computer the Sims has installed ok (after installing dotnet20 with winetricks and patching/no-cd-ing). However, when running TS3.exe the video intro will display, but when it gets to the loading screen it's just black (there's still music and - apparently - an interface being created as I can click where the buttons should be and progress to the game). Then when I enter the world/sunset valley, the world will be displayed but all interface elements will be invisible. Again, they're clickable, just not drawn. Any suggestions? File a bug? I'm using an ATI HD5730 under Ubuntu 10.10, fglrx drivers. Wine v. 1.3.8. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Interface not displaying by Mark Hughes on Thursday December 2nd 2010, 23:50
• RE: Interface not displaying by Coty M. on Saturday December 4th 2010, 18:02

• RE: Interface not displaying by RS on Saturday December 4th 2010, 18:13

• RE: Interface not displaying by Coty M. on Sunday December 5th 2010, 13:30

• RE: Interface not displaying by Coty M. on Sunday December 5th 2010, 13:31

No game disk found... by Rob Knop on Saturday November 6th 2010, 13:17 I've installed The Sims 3; the installation from the purchased DVD appeared to go smoothly. I've run winetrick command described on winehq. When I run the game, it runs through the introduction animation. However, when it gets to the game itself, it pops up a window saying "No game disk found", refusing to continue until it finds a game disk. I searched the web a bit, and found a site "gamecopyworld" whose advertisements made me shudder as I realized what "target audience" I was evidently placing myself into. From there, I found a "no DVD patch", which I ran. Same exact result. Is there anything I can do to play The Sims 3 under Wine? Is there anything I can do about this disk not found? Is the problem really copy protection, or is the problem that it's not finding the data I installed on my HD? I've tried running both "wine TS3.exe" and "wine Sims3Launcher.exe", with my CWD the "Game/Bin" directory that the installation The latter does exactly what the former does once I click the big "play" button. It may be related that I can't see any text when I click the "welcome" icon in the latter. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: No game disk found... by Artem Vorotnikov on Saturday November 6th 2010, 14:01

• RE: No game disk found... by Rob Knop on Sunday November 7th 2010, 11:02

• Got it to work by Rob Knop on Sunday November 7th 2010, 18:09

• RE: No game disk found... by Mark Hughes on Saturday November 6th 2010, 18:38

• RE: No game disk found... by Aleksi Kinnunen on Saturday November 5th 2011, 13:16

• RE: No game disk found... by chelsea on Tuesday November 23rd 2010, 1:39

• RE: No game disk found... by Mark Hughes on Tuesday November 23rd 2010, 3:08

• RE: No game disk found... by chelsea on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 18:52

• RE: No game disk found... by Rikard Johansson on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 19:41

• RE: No game disk found... by chelsea on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 19:44

• RE: No game disk found... by Rikard Johansson on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 20:19

• RE: No game disk found... by chelsea on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 20:47

• RE: No game disk found... by Mark Hughes on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 22:20

• RE: No game disk found... by Tuulikki on Tuesday April 12th 2011, 12:30

• RE: No game disk found... by Tuulikki on Tuesday April 12th 2011, 14:33

Custom content by Daniele Antelmi on Thursday September 9th 2010, 7:24 How I can install the .package files?? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Custom content by Maarten Bos on Friday September 10th 2010, 6:30

• RE: Custom content by Daniele Antelmi on Friday September 10th 2010, 11:24

• RE: Custom content by Claus Reheis on Monday November 1st 2010, 16:41

• RE: Custom content by riley h on Monday February 13th 2012, 10:01

Can't click sims by Maarten Bos on Wednesday September 8th 2010, 14:18 Hello, Now the other issue is gone, but now I am unable to click on other persons. clicking on yourself works clicking on buildings work random clicks work but persons are just like in a "when they are going home, you can't do anything about it" kind of way, greyed out.. In this case, I don't think any dll overwrite is the problem, for there are far too less and only a few that are needed are there. (only 2 things) I have no idea how this problem has occured... [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Can't click sims by Maarten Bos on Wednesday September 15th 2010, 9:24

invisible clothing by Maarten Bos on Sunday September 5th 2010, 10:15 Hello, I found out that .package files do work, so mods are supported. But now I deleted the cache files, to place all new things, and now several clothing pieces does not appear, or only slightly (a little piece of the clothing), the rest is invisible. What seems to be the Problem? Wine 1.2 (actually, with patch, without mods, it would run platinum on my pc) E8400 3.0 ghz 4 gig ram 9800GTX Ubuntu 10.4 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: invisible clothing by Maarten Bos on Sunday September 5th 2010, 10:20

• RE: invisible clothing by Maarten Bos on Sunday September 5th 2010, 12:19
• RE: invisible clothing by Mark Hughes on Monday September 6th 2010, 0:49

• RE: invisible clothing by Maarten Bos on Monday September 6th 2010, 5:50
• RE: invisible clothing by Maarten Bos on Monday September 6th 2010, 5:53

• RE: invisible clothing by Mark Hughes on Monday September 6th 2010, 17:28

• RE: invisible clothing by Maarten Bos on Tuesday September 7th 2010, 10:27
• RE: [solved] invisible clothing by Maarten Bos on Tuesday September 7th 2010, 12:24

• RE: invisible clothing by Mark Hughes on Monday September 6th 2010, 0:48

Can't start TS3 by Dan on Saturday September 4th 2010, 12:47 I installed a bunch of things with winetricks and updated to the latest TS3 version with the manual patch, but TS3 won't start; the output from the one time the debugger actually ran is at grinnz.pastebin.com/6cL4GqnP Thanks for any help [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Can't start TS3 by Mark Hughes on Saturday September 4th 2010, 18:59

Fix gamma tips by Rikard Johansson on Thursday September 2nd 2010, 15:15 typing xgamma -gamma 1 in a terminal is allready mention. But my tips is to make a new starter on your desktop, then type "xgamma -gamma 1" (w/o quotes) as the command to run. Quickest way to reset gamma :-) [post new] [reply to this]

Problems by Jari on Saturday August 28th 2010, 8:42 Hi, since i installed the no-cd crack The Sims 3 won't start anymore. When i try to start it with wine it gives me an error message and when i try to start it with PlayOnLinux it says: The Sims 3: line 5: cd: /home/jari/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin: File or map doesn't excist wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\TS3.exe" Please tell me how I can resolve this. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Problems by Mark Hughes on Saturday September 4th 2010, 19:00

Problems by Jari on Saturday August 28th 2010, 8:41 Hi, since i installed the no-cd crack The Sims 3 won't start anymore. When i try to start it with wine it gives me an error message and when i try to start it with PlayOnLinux it says: The Sims 3: line 5: cd: /home/jari/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/TheSims3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin: File or map doesn't excist wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\TS3.exe" Please tell me how I can resolve this. [post new] [reply to this]

Installation verification failure by Linux-tester on Monday August 9th 2010, 14:42 Hi I try to run Sims 3, but it still wont work. It shows the sims3 video and the loading screen. When its finished, i get an error: Installation verification failure! The SimsTM 3 cannot run.The installation is incomplete.please reinstall and try again. I've reinstalled it 2 times-but still the same error. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Installation verification failure by Linux-tester on Wednesday August 11th 2010, 10:45

Blank green portraits in Ambitions by Rinaldus on Thursday June 10th 2010, 4:31 After installing The Sims 3 Ambitions I got trouble with green blank portraits of every sim. This problem appears only if I start new game (new city). In old saves everything is ok. I googled several days about it but found nothing. Here's screenshot of problem: s59.radikal.ru/i164/1006/f7/0e1982f56302.jpg [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Blank green portraits in Ambitions by Mark Hughes on Monday June 14th 2010, 0:27

No errors in description. Is it true? Platinum? by Aduniel on Monday April 26th 2010, 6:20 It means than Sims3 is working complete with no NOCDpatch and Launcher? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: No errors in description. Is it true? Platinum? by Mark Hughes on Tuesday April 27th 2010, 2:30

• RE: No errors in description. Is it true? Platinum? by Aduniel on Tuesday April 27th 2010, 3:20

Install Failure! by Steven V. Wilson on Saturday March 27th 2010, 20:59 It took about 10 hours to run the EA Installer! When It was almost finished in gave this error message: C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscrowks.dll could not be loaded How do I fix this? Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running in a VM via Virtualbox ver. 3.1.4r57640 from Sun Microsystems. Under Winblow$ Vista home 64 bit. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Install Failure! by Mark Hughes on Saturday April 10th 2010, 1:07

install to an external hard drive error by joe on Tuesday February 9th 2010, 15:40 when i choose the install path as Z:\media\FREECOM HDD\Games which is my external hard drive (freecom hdd) i recieve an error which says: "Cannot install to Z:\media\FREECOM HDD\Games, because it may cause the system to become unstable." is there any known reason for this? [post new] [reply to this]

A bug... by Daniele Antelmi 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! [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: A bug... by Brian Doe on Thursday January 28th 2010, 1:20

• RE: A bug... by Xyem on Friday September 17th 2010, 15:10

• RE: A bug... by chelsea on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 18:55

• RE: A bug... by Xyem on Thursday November 25th 2010, 3:03

• RE: A bug... by Daniele Antelmi on Thursday November 25th 2010, 9:20
• RE: A bug... by Tuulikki on Tuesday April 19th 2011, 14:32

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 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Sluggish game play by Mark Hughes on Saturday April 17th 2010, 0:17

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 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: No text with Intel video by Gergely Csepany on Sunday January 10th 2010, 5:55

• RE: No text with Intel video by Miro on Monday January 11th 2010, 0:31

• RE: No text with Intel video by Steven V. Wilson on Saturday March 27th 2010, 5:34

• RE: No text with Intel video by Simon on Wednesday July 21st 2010, 2:32

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. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: ATI bugs by Erick López on Thursday December 3rd 2009, 20:11

• RE: ATI bugs by Ric on Friday December 4th 2009, 0:40

• RE: ATI bugs by Ric on Friday December 4th 2009, 0:41

• RE: ATI bugs by JJB3 on Wednesday February 24th 2010, 12:44

• RE: ATI bugs by JJB3 on Tuesday December 14th 2010, 12:34