wine users - Dec 2011 - Thoughts on a possible solution to get the Sims 2 running.

I am trying as hard as I can to find a solution to get the Sims 2 to work. I
have a new copy on the way and everything I hear says the game wont play in
wine.

Now I had an idea, the last time I ran the Sims 2 was on a Mac. I know for a
fact the the Mac version is just in a Cider wrapper, I know because I've
opened it before. Now I'm sure EA didn't dump thousands of dollars to
rebuild the entire engine just for the Mac release. So is there anyone out there
who thinks it may be possible to extract certain files from the mac version and
use them to overwrite the files in the Wine installed version? Cider is nothing
more than a nice neat pre-configured version of wine, so something has to be
possible. I have access to a Mac to try it out, I just gotta wait for the game
to get here.

Also I know the whole issue with running Sims 2 is it is not able to get all
1024 Vertex shades that its requesting. Is there a way to software emulate the
remaining shaders? similar to how the Direct X 10 in Windows XP patches software
emulated all - well most - of the Direct X 10 effects.

So anyone up for some trouble shooting with me? The Sims 2 was Epic, much better
than the Sims 3 (which I actually have running beautifully, ironic.)

Ok, I'm currently checking out a program called "3D-Analyze" it
looks promising. If anyone has more experience with the app send me some
pointers, because I'm just going to go through and try all the options and
see what happens.

Heres a Link:
 http://www.tommti-systems.com/main-Dateien/files.html

Just as a side note, the 3D-Analyze app runs just fine in wine, but I was not
able to extract it, it is in a self-extracting rar file. I just booted up XP in
Virtual box and copied it over.

jjmckenzie wrote:
> 
> My point exactly.  We tell folks to go to the Applications Database
> for information and there were NO bug reports there (and there is
> space to add them).  Looks like I'll be doing something tonight...
> 
I've never told anyone to look for bugs in the AppDB, and the space
you're talking about is to add links to the real bug reports in bugzilla.
It's helpful when people remember to do that, but many don't, so I would
never recommend relying on the AppDB to find bugs.