In PlayOnLinux, set the following under Display: Test the sound in the audio tab before exiting to reduce headaches later on There are Issues with pulseaudio that cause the music and intro video to play at high speed Still in winecfg, set the correct ALSA hardware device under Audio. Install dotnet35sp1 through winetricks, which also installs 2.0 and 3.0 with service packs and msxml3 In terminal: echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope Install vcrun2005 + sp1 through winetricks.įakeie6 is already part of Wine now and does not need to be installed separately. Set VideoDriver in winetricks to correct video card Also, the install script from PlayOnLinux has an issue where it breaks the Launcher and I didn't feel like going through it to try and figure out why.Ĭreate new 32-bit virtual drive called TheSims3 using wine 1.7.23
These instructions can be modified for those who know more about WINEPREFIX, but I wanted to keep it simple for casual users. For the record, I'm running Linux Mint 17, with Intel i5-4690, 3.13.0-24 of the kernel, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 with the nvidia driver 331.38, and using the latest, as of yesterday, wine version 1.7.23 through PlayOnLinux. After many days of searching and not finding anything any good instructions how to install 'The Sims 3' in Linux, this is the solution I came up with.