Sims Not Working on July 2004 Build of wine

zman · 08-27-2004, 08:48 PM

When I run The Sims (Windoze Version) (Cracked NO-CD EXE)
I get (from command line)

fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x40366238)->(00000000,00000008)
fixme:imm:ImmGetDefaultIMEWnd (0x10024 - (nil) 0x4035d558 ): semi-stub
fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x40366b30)->(00010024,00000808)
fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x40366b30)->(00010024,00000811)

err:seh:setup_exception stack overflow 0 bytes in thread 0009 eip 40c1f301 esp 40561000 stack 0x40560000-0x40660000

then I get booted to the desktop (except it's in 800x600!)
I have to keep on killing X!
Please Hellllp Meee!

System:
800 Mhz PIII CPU
LITEON DVD BURNER
LITEON DVD-ROM
Western Digital 8.4 GB HD (For Win98)
Maxtor 80 GB HD (For Linux and WinXP)
1.44M Floppy
nVidia 64MB Video Card
Sound Blaster 16 PCI Sound Card
10/100 LAN Card
384MB RAM

P.S. I ain't gonna shell out $80 for that MDK gaming edition when I have the game and all 7 Expansion Packs for windows!

realjustin · 08-28-2004, 01:32 AM

As far as I knew the Sims doesn't work with any Wines or Cedega. Can anybody confirm this?

Mega Man X · 08-28-2004, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by realjustin
As far as I knew the Sims doesn't work with any Wines or Cedega. Can anybody confirm this?

I guess you're right:

Quote:

TransGaming's fully optimized Linux version of Maxis' hit title works perfectly. Packaged Windows version will *not* work well with standard WineX due to lack of optimizations

from here!!!

realjustin · 08-28-2004, 07:21 PM

I spent a little time today, and figured out a fairly easy way to get the Sims to work. If you can install it on a Windows computer you can copy over almost every file it creates to your Cedega windows drive. It works after that with Cedega. I have not tested it extensively, but I have loaded and saved games and played it a bit. There are bugs, but I haven't seen anything showstopping yet. Yet is the key word though.

Forgot to mention, I used a No-CD cracked exe to help it along, since Winex has always had issues with CDs.

Psyddicus · 09-27-2004, 12:38 PM

They say that The Sims doesn't run under Cedega, but I installed it just fine. I have no windows partition, I just ran setup.exe or whatever it's called and pointed it to install to a fake C drive. I even installed the hot date expansion by using Unshield to extract from the install shield .cab files to the sims directory. The only issues are that there are slight graphical glitches every now and again, and also it ocassionally just crashes (it appears to be random). I just took up the habit of saving often and it's fine. It's not like it crashes every few minutes...sometime I could be playing it for hours without a single crash.

Transgaming just wants you to think that you can't install/play the game so that you will buy their ported version