The Sims 4

What works

Basic modes tested:

• Sim Creator
• Build Mode
• Live Mode

Expansion packs tested:

• University
• Get Famous
• Seasons
• Cats & Dogs
• City Living
• Get to Work

Game packs tested:

• Realm of Magic

Stuff packs tested:

• Tiny Living Stuff Pack
• Vintage Glamour Stuff
• Holiday Celebration Pack

So far I've played for roughly 4 hours and the game works fine. Glitches are primarily graphical and aren't a huge inconvenience (see What does not work section).

What does not

• Right click to drag camera doesn't work properly in fullscreen or windowed fullscreen mode. (Set the game to windowed mode and use your window manager to set it fullscreen)

• Some graphical glitches (especially related to the controls in the bottom left corner of the screen). Seems to be this issue (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Tech...) but a repair does not fix it.

Workarounds

These installation instructions are expanded upon DeadTOm's instructions based on what I did: https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...

1. Startwith an empty wineprefix (make an empty folder, enter the folder from your terminal, and run `export WINEPREFIX=$(pwd)`)
2. Run `winetricks corefonts arial vcrun2010 vcrun2013 dxvk d9vk`
3. Download the Origin installer.
4.
In a separate terminal, run `while true; do inotifywait Origin; chmod
u+w Origin; done` (Make sure you have inotify-tools installed or this
will error out)
5. Run the Origin installer.
6. Open Origin and download Sims 4.
    At some point during the download you may get a "We've encountered a problem" modal. If the downloads are still continuing, leave the modal up until the downloads complete, as you may get MANY of these. Make sure the inotifywait loop is still working and sending out responses.

7. After the downloads have completed, click "Close" on each "We've encountered a problem" modal that appears. The more expansion packs you have, the more of these will appear
8. After this, Origin will use up an enormous amount of CPU time and disk I/O reading your game files to verify them. Let it do this - it can take a fairly long time. Once it's completed this, it will ask you what language you'd like to use and will then finalize the install.  You will need to be online (and have the inotifywait loop mentioned before running) for all of this.
9. Disable Origin In-game before playing.

What was not tested

Not yet tested:

• Owning a pet
• Acting (going to studios, etc.)
• Going to university
• Living in an apartment
• Maxing out a career path
• Anything on the magic path

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Other
• Driver: proprietary

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