i’ve been trying for a couple days to install the fitgirl release of the sims 3 on arch linux using lutris (0.5.17). i’ve installed it at least 3 times at this point, each time using wine ge 8-26 (technically outdated but the installer wouldn’t progress past the first file in the other wine versions i tried, which were system wine-staging 9.8 and kron4ek vanilla wine build 9.17 from protonup-qt), and setting the dependencies and environment variables referenced from this installer script.
the installer would finish, but trying to launch the game, either through the launcher or from ts3w.exe directly, the game would open on a black screen for a few seconds before popping up an error about service initialization failure (didn’t think to screeenshot before uninstalling and don’t feel like spending another hour to get one screenshot, sorry). this would always happen, regardless of which wine version i used, or whether or not the lutris runtime was disabled.
one thing if note i did notice the 3rd time around was that in the post install file validation (see attached), 14 files would always be missing. i ignored them at first, assuming they were related to the optional store content which i wasn’t installing, but now my only guess is that those files being missing is whats causing the game to not launch. only problem is; i don’t know what they are or why they aren’t being installed.
and before anyone asks, yes i tried downloading linuxrulez!'s sims 3 repack. sadly i dont think anybody is seeding it atm and idk where else i could get my hands on it.
I installed Fitgirl’s Sims 3 + all DLC release using Bottles a week ago and it worked fine. I just had to make sure I didn’t tick the box to install DirectX/.net (can’t remember) as it will give an error during installation and fail. So I imagine in Lutris you can do the same, just install using the installer, instead of using a script. I can check later to see which runner I used.
forgot to mention but i was also unchecking those boxes already during my tests, figured theyd be redundant anyways with the dependencies installed from winetricks. also i wasn’t actually using the linked script, i just referenced it to see which dependencies to install/which environment variable to set.
Can you validate that those files are actually there?
well the game isn’t installed right now so atm i think i can safely say they aren’t.
Getting the obvious stuff out of the way.
Did you re-download the files?
Did you run the pre-installation program first?
Does running the launcher in admin mode fix anything (doubt this will do anything, but has worked for me once).
Others say the installation is working fine for them and I have never had issues with Fit-Girl downloads myself. So, either your PC is the issue, or your files became corrupted and need to be downloaded again.
Did you re-download the files?
yes, twice
Did you run the pre-installation program first?
assuming you mean the batch script to verify the bins, i couldnt get the script to run fsr but i was able to verify the bins manually and i made sure all of the checksums matched before installing
Does running the launcher in admin mode fix anything (doubt this will do anything, but has worked for me once).
well i was under the impression that wine runs everything in admin mode by default. unless you mean running lutris as sudo, something which it doesn’t even allow you to do lmao
You must be doing something wrong then lol, i just downloaded the game and it works just fine.
verify the bins manually and i made sure all of the checksums matched before installing
Clearly not. Plus the fact that the bat file doesn’t run should be raising red flags no…?
i manually copied the hashes from the included .md5 and pasted them into the checksum generator in dolphin file properties for each respective .bin, one after another. all of them matched, and if one of them didn’t, i would have redownloaded the files. if that isn’t enough to convince you then idk what will.
also i dont know why thee bat file didnt run. quicksfv ran just fine after installation but not from the bat file. either way i doubt its at all relevant
idk where else i could get my hands on it.
Just checked and rutracker has it.
checked myself and i did find a wine repack of the sims 3, it’s not the linuxrulez repack but this should do just fine, thanks. idk why i didn’t think to check there, i guess i just don’t think to look for games on rutorrent, especially not ones for linux.
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Rehash the torrent in your torrent client to make sure all of the files are fully downloaded.
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For selective downloads, make sure all of the needed files are there fg-01.bin - fg-x.bin and make sure you have at least one of the selective language packs if they’re available.
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Use the 2GB option during install or add the environment variable, like in the script.
WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1- I’ve noticed some repacks will just corrupt on linux for me.
Baldurs Gate 3 for example will always have a corrupted SharedSounds pak file on linux and a windows vm for me. But it works completely fine when I unpack it under native windows.
Similarly with Marvels Avengers, there are 3 files that will always unpack as the wrong name on linux so the automated hash check fails since it can’t find the files. But they have the correct hash when checked manually so they just need to be renamed.
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If you don’t have limited bandwidth download pre-install Sim3 from Steamrip instead
