SO YES! I switched to linux finally... i was a hater for a long time and that was mainly because the only linux experience i had was in 2019 on gaming laptop that was kind of dying anyways and sims 2 linux was not as documented and tested as it is today. back then i got too many crashes which put me off of linux but here we are
the game runs beautifully, looks pretty, it is a little difficult to set up at first but once you get it going it is brilliant. played the game for 12 hrs straight yesterday OOPS but it ran well, no crashing (TOUCH WOOD).
now time to stuff my downloads folder with whatever the fuck i want with 0 repercussions and spam photos again. does this mean i am active again? idk
im also using linux bazzite (gnome desktop version) and i love it
After a dreadful day of trying to make this work, I'm reporting that The Sims 2 finally works on my new Linux system! 😭❤️ Admittedly I have made my own life harder setting this up, but the most important thing I've learned from this experience and thought it might worth sharing:
Before you try to install TS2 on your Linux, make sure that you have your graphics card's driver updated!
When I first installed The Sims 2 on Linux it was incredibly laggy and choppy, because the default Nouveau driver didn't work well enough with my Nvidia card. After I installed the Nvidia driver from the built in driver manager, the game just straightup crashed.
Then I had to find out that Mint's driver manager couldn't install the newest driver for my card (RTX 3070), and even when installed, it didn't work. 😂
So if you have an Nvidia card and struggling or planning to install Linux in the future, below the cut are a few useful tips that I've discovered in the depths of the Internet:
Check what driver the official Nvidia site recommends for your GPU. - I did this and it showed driver version 570.
2. I think this is optional, but open your terminal and type the cmd: sudo apt update - this will trigger Linux to update its driver list.
3. Open Driver Manager, and see if the recommended driver (570 in my case is available). For me it was not available, only the 550, this was my issue.
3.1. If you can see your required driver, awesome, install it from the driver manager and skip to step 5.
3.2. If not, you have to use this PPA. -> Meaning you have to open your terminal and enter the following commands (when I list multiple commands to run, first type the first one, press enter, then type the next one, press enter etc.):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/
ppa sudo apt update
You can also find installation guide on the link above, but it's basically this.
4. Now you have to restart your system, and repeat Step 3. of this list. The newest driver should show up in your Driver Manager now, install it.
5. After installing, open your terminal and type the following command: inxi -G -> this will allow us to check if the driver works properly. Shock, it did not for me :D
When working properly, it should look like this:
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1:1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
When not working, it looks like this:
Example 1: Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa failed: nvidia
6. This is the thread that helped me fix this problem. You have to scroll down to the Nvidia Graphics troubleshooting tips.
7. I had to add this "kernel boot parameter": nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 into the system. On this link you can see how to add it either temporarily or "permanently" (meaning you don't have to add it every time you start your system, but it is removable).
To add it permanently, you have to type the following commands into your terminal:
8. After you added it, reboot your system, and when it starts again, check if the parameter is there with the command: cat /proc/cmdline
9. If it's there, run the inxi -G command again, and see if it looks like it should.
10. If not, you might have to update the Kernel version of your Linux, which you can do in the Update Manager/View/Linux Kernels menu. I had to update mine from 6.8 to 6.11.
After all this you should be good to install the game, I made my life so much harder than it was necessarily so I hope my research on how to deal with an Nvidia Graphics card with Sims 2 on Linux is helpful to some of you. 😂
At my parents house for my mum's birthday and there was a shitty laptop they weren't using and I decided to see if I could install Linux and also Sims 2 on Linux for the hell of it and anyway, because I have now achieved one (1) success in Linux I am a GOD.
just changed to CachyOS and happy to say no more screentearing with my nvidia card all thanks to being logged in under wayland! its smooth-sailing for me finally :3
also did some ricing! look how cute the virtual bonsai is lol!
here's what my screensaver is behind the game window and a close up of my lutris, i've got that studio ghibli theme going strong:
AND lastly pay no mind to the game notification xD i swear they are good parents and feed their children (i was just busy taking screenshots and didnt pause the game 🙈)
Quick guide on how to install sims2packs on Linux Mint through Lutris (mainly bc I couldn't find this online). First install the Sims2Pack Clean Installer in Lutris; to do this press the + button and follow the prompts. Once you have Clean Installer installed, to install a sim you click the little arrow button and choose 'Run EXE Inside Wine Prefix' (see photo #1). Navigate to where you put the sim2pack you want to install, select it and hit Ok (see photo #2). At this point the Clean Installer will launch and look just like the windows version does when installing sims!
This took me far too long to figure out. Hope this helps someone else out who is running the sims 2 in Linux!
So, I reinstalled Lutris and TS2 on my Linux desktop because I was unwilling to wrestle with purple soup. Configured everything, CEP, Scriptorium, RPC, you name it. Went to recreate Kulo Sena... and got this weird terrain glitch or something that wasn’t there in the previous Lutris install. And I installed that the exact same way.
Basically, you know how the textures for the terrain, the cliffs and the beaches are all meant to be seamless tiling? Well, they are, but they appear to have been shrunk down to cover such a small space that everything looks floodfill ugly in hood view. Give me a few minutes and I’ll post comparison pics from Linux and Windows copies of the hood, with the exact same Downloads folders and everything. I am SO FRUSTRATED, you have no idea.
I know this may be a long shot but just a general shout out into the void to ask if anyone has managed to successfully get SimPE running on Linux? It’s the last thing I am battling.
