The Sims 1 & 2 on Wine

[Josh]

Hi all,
There was a discussion in this topic: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19181 about getting the Sims 1 & 2 to run on wine. I have tried installing the Sims 1, Installation works fine, but it gives me an error. A user named Simon of Aragon said he also tried running the Sims 1 on Wine, Unfortunatley he had the same problem as me. He did say that it could be a real jazzy protection system. Since the installation works fine. but the game itself dosent, i agree that it could be a jazzy protection system, that provents the actual game to run. Is there anyway we could "bypass" the protection system without using game hacks?

[dimesio]

Discussion of how to circumvent DRM is against forum rules. But that's not the problem with those games anyway. If you had bothered to read the two bugs I linked you to in the other thread you would know that the problem in both cases is in directx-d3d.

[Josh]

Discussion of how to circumvent DRM is against forum rules. But that's not the problem with those games anyway.

Ah, sorry about that, still new to the forum

If you had bothered to read the two bugs I linked you to in the other thread you would know that the problem in both cases is in directx-d3d.

The problem is directx-d3d? Ah, so that is why it wont work, the game needs it.
The only thing i could do is try installing directx-d3d in Wine.
EDIT: After installing The Sims 1 ounce again, i put the directx-d3d.dll in the Wine C: Drive Under
.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Maxis/The Sims
After doing that and trying to run the game, it just presents me with a black screen
Maybe i put the directx-d3d.dll in the wrong place. Either way i dont think this bug is possible to fix as of now....