Could you run the apps in a VM? It’s not that hard and after a while you might figure out a way to drop it entirely (also running Windows in a VM is fun, don’t give it internet acces, fuck up it’s files, tell it to piss off all kinds of ways, it’s a VM who cares)
I’ve tried, but so far no luck. What I’m having trouble with is paint tool SAI 2 and the Sims 2 ultimate collection. Both should be possible to run, but I’ve just had no luck (and with sims there’s plenty of other problems I haven’t even gotten into yet, like getting all the necessary other things to run, like simPE). SAI only works if you have an external drawing tablet/display, but I haven’t gotten it working with integrated
Many users reported no issues running Sims 2 on protondb, I’d recommend installing it via Lutris: https://protondb.com/app/3314070
You may need to adjust some settings like the runner (wine-ge is default in Lutris and works for all my games, Proton is also popular) or the environment variables (flags detailed in the protondb reports)
Then you could install simPE under the same Wine prefix (like a simulated Windows filesystem) so that it can see your game files. Might have some quirks like what’s detailed in this post, but generally seems to work https://www.reddit.com/r/sims2help/comments/1grccow/simpe_on_linux_wine/
A LLM should be able to help you with basic troubleshooting, I’d recommend Gemini over ChatGPT though.
Aside from that I’d just recommend choosing a distro that bundles your GPU drivers to make initial setup easier
Tried both already, neither is still working. With SAI the problem seems to be the tablet drivers as I can get even pressure sensitivity working, but no matter what I try the cursor is offset like crazy; I think the problem is the tablet drivers and I can get as far as installing opentabletdriver, but since I have integrated touch screen display on this laptop, I haven’t figured out how to turn the old drivers off. Every other drawing program seems to work though, just not SAI… The other computer where I’m stuck with win11 is surface pro though, so chances off getting anything working on that with linux are even lower. Ironically not even win11 runs propely on it, microsoft has no excuses!
With sims 2 the problem is every link through Lutris is dead already, and I haven’t found anything working through the internet archive either. I know I could get the game itself running by buying it the legacy edition through steam, but that doesn’t have the ikea collection (and I would have to go through 20 years of mods individually to weed out the ones using stuff from ikea pack), I wouldn’t get RPC and it doesn’t even support bodyshop. I mean I probably can’t get bodyshop running on linux anyway, but I haven’t gotten far enough to worry about that yet
For body shop, RPC and really any other externally run mods, you’d just click the wine glass icon in Lutris and click “Run .exe in Wine prefix”, same for simPE. That’s the main reason I recommend Lutris. There might be some specific caveat to these mods, but I’ve used many external mods in other games this way without issue. Just yesterday I installed CheatEngine in my Ghost of Tsushima prefix to enable a mod which changes the parry timing indicator.
Re: SAI 2, in terminal:
xinput list
Find your touchscreen device e.g “HID-compliant touchscreen”
xinput disable"<HID-compliant touchscreen>"
This will disable touchscreen system-wide but is just to test and will revert upon rebooting. If it works, add an environment variable in Bottles:
WINE_HID_DISABLE_HUMAN_INTERFACE_DEVICES=1
Beyond that the issue might be fixed by adjusting the scaling of your Linux desktop, opentabletdriver configuration, or Bottles configuration related to scaling or mouse acceleration
With RPC the problem is legacy edition itself; the mod doesn’t work with it (and legacy edition doesn’t have bodyshop, it’s not a mod but part of the old game; unless someone finally has found a way around that). What I’m trying to run is the ultimate collection, because both of those are quite essential. I know it is possible to get it working, but I just haven’t found a way yet…
Depends on what you want from RPC, I guess. The creator seems to have made a quick patch for Legacy that adds borderless full screen and firstborn syndrome fix, but that’s it.
Anyway if you prefer the ultimate collection, I’m happy to rehost a working torrent from one of my private trackers once I’m back on my home connection in about a week.
Oh if you do host it, thank you so much! I’m guessing the root of the issue is EA trying to force people to buy legacy and thus intentionally targeting all the UC providers.
Could you run the apps in a VM? It’s not that hard and after a while you might figure out a way to drop it entirely (also running Windows in a VM is fun, don’t give it internet acces, fuck up it’s files, tell it to piss off all kinds of ways, it’s a VM who cares)
I’ve tried, but so far no luck. What I’m having trouble with is paint tool SAI 2 and the Sims 2 ultimate collection. Both should be possible to run, but I’ve just had no luck (and with sims there’s plenty of other problems I haven’t even gotten into yet, like getting all the necessary other things to run, like simPE). SAI only works if you have an external drawing tablet/display, but I haven’t gotten it working with integrated
If you wanted to give it another try, I found this guide for SAI 2: https://github.com/TibixDev/sai2-guide
Many users reported no issues running Sims 2 on protondb, I’d recommend installing it via Lutris: https://protondb.com/app/3314070
You may need to adjust some settings like the runner (wine-ge is default in Lutris and works for all my games, Proton is also popular) or the environment variables (flags detailed in the protondb reports)
Then you could install simPE under the same Wine prefix (like a simulated Windows filesystem) so that it can see your game files. Might have some quirks like what’s detailed in this post, but generally seems to work https://www.reddit.com/r/sims2help/comments/1grccow/simpe_on_linux_wine/
A LLM should be able to help you with basic troubleshooting, I’d recommend Gemini over ChatGPT though.
Aside from that I’d just recommend choosing a distro that bundles your GPU drivers to make initial setup easier
Tried both already, neither is still working. With SAI the problem seems to be the tablet drivers as I can get even pressure sensitivity working, but no matter what I try the cursor is offset like crazy; I think the problem is the tablet drivers and I can get as far as installing opentabletdriver, but since I have integrated touch screen display on this laptop, I haven’t figured out how to turn the old drivers off. Every other drawing program seems to work though, just not SAI… The other computer where I’m stuck with win11 is surface pro though, so chances off getting anything working on that with linux are even lower. Ironically not even win11 runs propely on it, microsoft has no excuses!
With sims 2 the problem is every link through Lutris is dead already, and I haven’t found anything working through the internet archive either. I know I could get the game itself running by buying it the legacy edition through steam, but that doesn’t have the ikea collection (and I would have to go through 20 years of mods individually to weed out the ones using stuff from ikea pack), I wouldn’t get RPC and it doesn’t even support bodyshop. I mean I probably can’t get bodyshop running on linux anyway, but I haven’t gotten far enough to worry about that yet
For body shop, RPC and really any other externally run mods, you’d just click the wine glass icon in Lutris and click “Run .exe in Wine prefix”, same for simPE. That’s the main reason I recommend Lutris. There might be some specific caveat to these mods, but I’ve used many external mods in other games this way without issue. Just yesterday I installed CheatEngine in my Ghost of Tsushima prefix to enable a mod which changes the parry timing indicator.
Re: SAI 2, in terminal:
xinput listFind your touchscreen device e.g “HID-compliant touchscreen”
xinput disable "<HID-compliant touchscreen>"This will disable touchscreen system-wide but is just to test and will revert upon rebooting. If it works, add an environment variable in Bottles:
WINE_HID_DISABLE_HUMAN_INTERFACE_DEVICES=1Beyond that the issue might be fixed by adjusting the scaling of your Linux desktop, opentabletdriver configuration, or Bottles configuration related to scaling or mouse acceleration
Thanks for the help! I’ll keep trying lol.
With RPC the problem is legacy edition itself; the mod doesn’t work with it (and legacy edition doesn’t have bodyshop, it’s not a mod but part of the old game; unless someone finally has found a way around that). What I’m trying to run is the ultimate collection, because both of those are quite essential. I know it is possible to get it working, but I just haven’t found a way yet…
Depends on what you want from RPC, I guess. The creator seems to have made a quick patch for Legacy that adds borderless full screen and firstborn syndrome fix, but that’s it.
Anyway if you prefer the ultimate collection, I’m happy to rehost a working torrent from one of my private trackers once I’m back on my home connection in about a week.
Oh if you do host it, thank you so much! I’m guessing the root of the issue is EA trying to force people to buy legacy and thus intentionally targeting all the UC providers.