The sims 3 installed via Origin, crash during login.

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    I get lots of sound stuttering when trying to login. Then the sounds cuts out. Then... Crash! How do I switch the wine prefix to ALSA instead of PULSE audio?
    steve723, Aug 26, 2013
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    That is one thing I've never had to do. I've looked into it several times and havn't figured it out.
    From what I have read, I think its a command line thing.
    If you launch Wine Configuration, under audio there is only switching audio devices.
    Nothing for Alsa or Pulse.
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    I installed the full direct x instead of just the runtime. Now the crashing and stuttering seem to have stopped most of the time. The game still crashes if I attempt to login while in game for any reason. If I play play it with no online stuff then it doesn’t seem to crash any more. The launch can log in though. Since the game can't log in then I can't download any content for the game unless I buy a new stuff or EP pack that has it since Origin works.
    steve723, Aug 29, 2013
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    launch = launcher.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Cool, looks like DirectX fixed the audio problems...
    Loging is obviously a problem because without it, the game is useless.
    I'll check WineHQs and see if anyone has a similar problem
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Looks like you need to install dotnet20 to fix the launcher. This means you can't use any Wine 1.5 version or newer because it dotnet will conflict with Mono.
    Apparently Mono isn't handling the launcher correctly.
    So I recommend using Wine 1.4.1 and installing dotnet20.
    See if that fixes the launcher/login problems

    Apparently this is all through Steam, so I don't know if Origin will have similar problems or completely new ones?
    booman, Aug 29, 2013
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    I can still do most things without being on line its not like Simcity 2013. The Sims is still mostly designed to be played off line but has some slight on line ability's but I would like to at least down load some things now and then. I guess I could use cough cough windows to get the stuff and then copy the files.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Oh cool, I didn't realize that. Guess its not "useless" after all.
    Ok, then when you have time... try applying Wine 1.4.1 and dotnet20 to see if Launcher works.
    Don't forget to backup your gamefiles first. Just in case it breaks something in the virtual drive
    booman, Aug 29, 2013
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    FYI: EA/Maxis says that The sims 4 will have an online presence similar to The Sims 3. Nothing like Simcity 2013.

    I was worried that they might piss us off again like with Simcity.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Ah, were you one of the unfortunate gamers who got "screwed" with EA's servers?
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    I already have dotnet20 and I tried several versions of wine. Since wine 1.5.28-Origin is the only one that works with Origin then no other version can be used unless POL makes another modified wine version.
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    Unfortunately yes!! :mad::mad::mad: EA/Maxis.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    That really sucks.
    Anyways, can we consider Sims 3 a success even though launcher and logging in doesn't work?
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    I think show but also that getting it to run fully via wine still needs a bit of work but it is very playable as is but a little more would make it an even better experience. Hopefully on March 25, 2014 we can get The Sims 4 to work.
    steve723, Aug 30, 2013
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    Maybe the games is temporally messed up do to all the web sites being merged into just thesims.com no more separate sites for The Sims 3 and The sims 4 and The Sims Medieval.
    steve723, Aug 30, 2013
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    Depends on if the game hosting servers are also their web hosting servers.
    I would suspect they would be separate, you don't want someone hacking your web server and getting information from the game server too.
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    That would make sense but, you realize we are dealing with Electronic Arts? (Simcity 2013). I don't know whom is the bigger idiot EA or The USA government. :D
    steve723, Sep 1, 2013
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Yeah, I don't know much about EA anymore. I've been messing with Steam for years and it wasn't until recently that EA came back into the picture with their "Origin" client. Just copying Steam I would say...
    booman, Sep 2, 2013
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    I was right. I just had to wait until EA finished whatever they were doing to consolidate all their web sites. Now the game logs in like it is supposed to.
    steve723, Sep 6, 2013
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    Wow, great prediction... Glad it worked out for ya.
    booman, Sep 6, 2013
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