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 i’ve installed it at least 3 times at this point, each time using wine ge 8-26 (technically outdated but the installer wouldn’t progress past the first file in the other wine versions i tried, which were system wine-staging 9.8 and kron4ek vanilla wine build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.
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.
yes, twice
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
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.
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