The Sims 4

What works

This is for Origin Digital Deluxe Sims 4 edition.

Installs with a workaround.

What does not

Nothing else tested/works because it cannot be activated after first run.

Obviously the DRM is unsupported in wine.

No actual errors or fix-me debug messages at the time of the first connection for activation.

Workarounds

1. Create a 64 bit wine environment.
2. Installation workaround for the Origin error 3 installer - permissions issues on the Origin folder when trying to install.
   • Emerge sys-fs/inotify-tools
   • Navigate to the "Program Files (x86)" folder in your wine prefix and run the following command in a separate terminal window (start it *before* you start the Origin installer, and leave it running until the installer is done): 
     • while true; do inotifywait Origin; chmod u+w Origin; done
3. Origin-in-game is known not to work, so you have to turn that off for The Sims 4, before launching the game, or it will error out.
4. Download and install the Sims 4 Deluxe edition from your account

5. After first start an error appears that cannot connect to Origin servers to activate the game. There are a lot of Mac and Windows users that have the same problem and they could never resolve it (see EA forums)

What was not tested

Everything else was not tested because the game cannot start at all.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

The same problem is seen with wine-5.14-staging. The difference is that it has not got the permissions problem during Origin install.

Lutris doesn't work either.

No actual errors or fix-me debug messages at the time of the first connection for activation.