Will The Sims 2 run with Wine?

Akanikoto · #1 18th August 2009, 04:37 PM

I'm debating between trying to hunt down my Disk 1 of Sims 2 or giving my Seasons expansion pack to a friend. I have no idea where the disk is, but if the game will install and work with Wine, I plan to do my best to find it. I don't want to look for it if it won't work, so does anybody know if it will?

ppesci · #2 18th August 2009, 04:59 PM

No, the game doesn't work with wine nor virtualbox.

See in google with the words "sims 2 wine" and "sims 2 virtualbox", no quotes of course. BTW: Google is your friend.
The problem is the support to Direct3D i think.

HTH

Akanikoto · #3 18th August 2009, 05:40 PM

Okay, then. Thanks!

***Dangermouse*** · #4 18th August 2009, 08:14 PM

Playonlinux can play the sims3, dont know about sims2 though
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

steelaworkn · #5 18th August 2009, 08:55 PM

I'll bet, if you had a quad core processor with 4 gigs of ram and a killer video card, VB would run Sims. But no, Sims is design to run on systems with 2 cores and more than a gig of Ram for good results. VB splits the machine up so much that is severely cripples any performance from the guest OS.

zorgoth · #6 19th August 2009, 12:45 PM

Check out www.appdb.winehq.org