Application Details:
Version: | All |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://thesims3.ea.com/ |
Votes: | 78 |
Latest Rating: | Garbage |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.22-staging |
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What works
Installation and patching
Sound and vision
General gameplay
What does not
Game launcher (partly, the launcher itself works but you can't launch the game from it due to "Disc not Found" error)
Workarounds
What was not tested
Store mode
Modding
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Created a clean 32-bit wineprefix, then installed dotnet20, dotnet20_sp2 vcrun2005 and mfc42 via winetricks.
Game installed and patched to 1.67.2.
Launched directly via TS3W.exe instead of the launcher. Spent about two hours playing a 5-person family without any issues.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" x86_64 | Dec 01 2020 | 5.22-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | Herman Tafintsev | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" x86_64 | Dec 01 2020 | 5.21-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Herman Tafintsev | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux Unstable "Sid" x86_64 | Jul 09 2020 | 5.9-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Ski-lleR | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux Testing "bullseye" | Mar 07 2020 | 5.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Alex S. | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" x86_64 | Jul 10 2019 | 4.12.1-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Alex S. |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
22160 | The Sims 3: Sims3Launcher.exe doesn't show web site when started second time | NEW | View | |
23807 | Unsupported texture formats: DF16, DF24, RAWZ: format unrecognized(909198916) | NEW | View | |
30988 | Multiple .NET applications using System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser crash with Wine-Mono (libgluezilla needed for Mono.WebBrowser/Mono.Mozilla support)(Ragnarok download manager, The Sims 3 Launcher) | NEW | View | |
33261 | Sims 3 pause key (`) doesn't work with Spanish keyboard | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
50237 | The Sims 3 - cannot interact with objects and floor. | RESOLVED | FIXED | View |
To use the launcher you need to install dotnet20 via winetricks!
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.
For ATI on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 the following works fine;
Go to System->Control Center->ATI Catalyst Control Center->Color and click the Default button. The colors now change back to normal.
Bug 18991 (crash loading a town) fix:
env WINEPREFIX="~/.wine" TZ="America/Bahia" wine "TS3.exe"
Note: It might be best to change America/Bahia to your own TimeZone
Note that Greg Noe 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.
Here are the patch links: (if you have any more, feel free to post them)
PLEASE VIEW HERE FOR MORE PATCHES: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/175477.page
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
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