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I figured i would post how I installed The Sims 4 in playonlinux to help anyone else out that is having troubles.

The main issue is that The Sims 4 requires vcrun2012 and vcrun2013 which are not installable by playonlinux. However, these DLLs are installable by the newest version of winetricks.

1) create a new 32-bit prefix in POL called sims4

2) set wine version to 1.7.31

3) install vcrun2010

4) install The Sims 4

5) download the newest version of winetricks from https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/source/checkout:

svn checkout http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ winetricks-read-only

6) run winetricks with the prefix that you made in POL:

env WINEPREFIX=/home/[username]/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/sims4 ./winetricks-read-only/src/winetricks

install vcrun2012 and vcrun2013

7) patch the game if needed

8) Enjoy :)

I'm trying this as a newbie to POL. I made a new prefix as explained here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/177192/how-do-i-create-a-32-bit-wine-prefix

So I have a directory called sims4 in my home directory. Could you explain the next steps in more detail? Thanks for your post, I really want to get sims4 running on my Linux.

It doesn't work. Not that I have seen. We tried, but wine needs to be fixed to play it. You will want to open a bug report with winehq.org so that they can hopefully come up with a fix for it.

 

It doesn't work. Not that I have seen. We tried, but wine needs to be fixed to play it. You will want to open a bug report with winehq.org so that they can hopefully come up with a fix for it.

https://github.com/SEEK-Jobs/chocolatey-package-vsagents2013 This should do that. Please patch wine 1.7.35 and add it to POL. wine 1.7.35 fixes Origin so it can dowload.

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https://github.com/SEEK-Jobs/chocolatey-package-vsagents2013 This should do that. Please patch wine 1.7.35 and add it to POL. wine 1.7.35 fixes Origin so it can dowload.

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Please open a proper request in the Bugs section for this patched version and we will get it in queue. 

Done thanks Ronin. FYI: Not to critise anyone but you mispelled Stauit in your bug report form. I assume you meant Status.

 

https://github.com/SEEK-Jobs/chocolatey-package-vsagents2013 This should do that. Please patch wine 1.7.35 and add it to POL. wine 1.7.35 fixes Origin so it can dowload.

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Please open a proper request in the Bugs section for this patched version and we will get it in queue. 

 

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No, it's just in French. ;) 

 

No, it's just in French. ;) 

 

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After I posted that it occured to me that it might be in french. There seems to be a lot of french developers doing open source now days. 

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I just escaped the quote for what you wrote in your last post. If you hover your mouse below the quote, it should pop up with a red line that lets you skip out of the quote and continue writing like normal, instead of within the quote. 

Oops, I thought I was typing after the qute. I didn't notice.

@Ronin I see you moved my bug report to features. You say it looks like a program rather than a patch. How do I run it. I have tried to run it but no luck so far.

 

@Ronin I see you moved my bug report to features. You say it looks like a program rather than a patch. How do I run it. I have tried to run it but no luck so far.

 

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Well, a new Wine build would always be considered a feature. It is adding something useful. :)

If you look at the documentation for it, it is built on a Windows system, and is an "agent" to download required Visual Studio libraries without actually installing VS. You could attempt to follow the docs and run it in a virtual drive via:

PlayOnLnux -> configure -> select virtual drive -> Wine tab -> Command prompt

and follow the actual Windows instructions for the app at their GitHub page:

https://github.com/SEEK-Jobs/chocolatey-package-vsagents2013

and try to get it working like that. I don't know what choco is, so I don't know that this will work. I suspect this is not the fix we are looking for, and we are still at the mercy of an actual patch for Wine itself.

 

 

@Ronin I see you moved my bug report to features. You say it looks like a program rather than a patch. How do I run it. I have tried to run it but no luck so far.

 

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Well, a new Wine build would always be considered a feature. It is adding something useful. :)

If you look at the documentation for it, it is built on a Windows system, and is an "agent" to download required Visual Studio libraries without actually installing VS. You could attempt to follow the docs and run it in a virtual drive via:

PlayOnLnux -> configure -> select virtual drive -> Wine tab -> Command prompt

and follow the actual Windows instructions for the app at their GitHub page:

https://github.com/SEEK-Jobs/chocolatey-package-vsagents2013

and try to get it working like that. I don't know what choco is, so I don't know that this will work. I suspect this is not the fix we are looking for, and we are still at the mercy of an actual patch for Wine itself.

 

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For sure. I would say that WineHQ would be the first place to have a fix, as it is specifically a Wine issue. The more info they have, the faster a fix will come. 

I just opened a bug report on the wine staging project to get this patched. Hopefully they will give me a patch name so POL can make a patched version of wine 1.7.35. https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/issues/298

Sweet. Once they respond with a patch or set of patches, post it in your feature request for the Wine build, and I will get it in queue. :)

I just found this in my email from yesterday:

Hi @steve7233. The bug tracker has moved to https://bugs.wine-staging.com. Open a new bug there.

Now I have to post a new bug report. If they would update their link this wouldn't happen.

It happens. They are a different team than WineHQ's, though, so I have to imagine their workflow is different. Just keep us updated. Thanks.

They say I should use the whole wine-staging patch set to target games.

Lol. I mean, I guess we could build that out, but that is a little, well, sloppy. They have a lot of patches, and to patch Wine with a ton of patches to fix something that may need just 1 or 2 seems a bit overkill. We would need to import their whole tree of patches into our repo, then set a build for them. 

Our current version includes fixes for about 130 bug and over 500 patches total

That is from their site. That is a TON of patches. I don't think it could hurt at all having a wine-staging build for every Wine version. That would be pretty cool. Nevertheless, I cannot think that 500+ patches for this particular issue is an elegant way to go.

Is there any way they can point out the patches that might fix this?