The Sims 3 Help

[Filipo]

Hi! nice post!, first time using play on linux, I followed the steps 7 times now and It doesn't appear to work for me. Can you help me?
look:
It installs origin right, and get to download the game fine.
when I launch it it launches origin, and then on the bar at the bottom of the screen, the sims logo appears 3 seconds and it dissappears.
so I click the origin square to pop up the origin window and there is the game icon, and I click play. Then the sims logo appears again at the bottom of the screen and then dissappears.
After several minutes of waiting and no game showing up, I close origin and a warning appears "are you sure you want to close origin with the sims still open?" (it does it in my language so it's not an accurate translation here)
I don't know my video memory, (I have tried every option in the combo box but no one works)
I have a laptop Vaio Pro 13 with ubuntu 16.04 and the ubuntu details say my graphics are Intel® Haswell Mobile. PlayOnLinux 4.2.10
And the video drivers appear to be installed correctly because I can use Blender perfectly.
Thank you in advance for your help!

 

[booman]

Welcome to the forum!

Sounds like you have everything setup correctly... Can you play any other games in PlayOnLinux?
There is a chance you don't have the 32-bit libraries installed for Ubuntu. They used to be available as a single package, but Ubuntu does not support them any more. Since Sims 3 is a 32-bit application, you will need those installed.

Here is how they can be installed:
Launch Terminal
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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Press Enter

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sudo apt-get update

Press Enter

Last...
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sudo apt-get install libasound2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 lib32nss-mdns libgnutls26:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxcomposite1:i386 libosmesa6:i386 libopenal1:i386 libmpg123-0:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 liblcms2-2:i386 libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 libgsm1:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxi6:i386 libv4l-0:i386 libsane:i386 libudev1:i386 libxml2:i386 libcups2:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libice6:i386 libsm6:i386

Press Enter

Then restart to be sure
Now Try Sims 3 again...