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Post by knowei on Apr 6, 2024 22:18:59 GMT -5
I've looked and can't find anything about my particular problem. I have everything installed and "functioning" on Linux/Ubuntu but when I open S4S it gives me the "Unable to find the sims 4. Please configure your game path." error popup. However, when I close the popup the entire program closes so I can't change the path. Does anyone know what is happening or how to fix it?
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Post by ethyrdude on May 9, 2024 10:43:39 GMT -5
I tried to follow a bunch of different sites: discord, Mac sites (in case they had a clue or offered one) and others but none of the procedures worked, the path could not be found. My program didn't close on giving the error and I could open mod files if I opened them using Sims 4 Studio, but I could never find a path that actually worked. Part of my problem, I am sure is that I run my Sims 4 game with proton and I am running Studio with wine, so it's probably confusing one drive c with the other, as to the solution, if I could get Studio installing with proton, it might work but I can't really say for sure, ATM.
I'm using Manjaro and all of my Windows games run great through Proton Experimental but as for mod programs, that seems to be a whole other ball game. I'm just happy I could get mods to even work.
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Post by ethyrdude on May 11, 2024 10:04:54 GMT -5
I gave up trying to get Sims 4 Studio to see my proton install of The Sims 4 so I uninstalled it from steam, installed on Wine and now Studio can find my game and configures Studio correctly. Installing the game using a different interface was most likely never going to work, now that my game is in the same area as Studio, everything works just fine. Now I have to hope that my game works as good under wine as it did under proton.
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Post by ethyrdude on May 13, 2024 7:03:13 GMT -5
The game does work well under wine, HOWEVER. The EA app looks like A** with the logo on top messed up, as well as the menu on the left. Not sure if it's the font missing or corrupted. In any case, the same does not happen under steam but here's the interesting thing. When I reinstalled The Sims 4 back under steam and proton, Sims 4 Studio found the game there just fine. So I'm thinking, maybe install Studio with wine first, ignore the error and then install your Sims game? Can't say for sure but it seems that studio recognizes the game being installed and "finds" the path auto magically.
Had to edit to correct some mistakes.
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Post by ethyrdude on Jun 2, 2024 9:08:27 GMT -5
I did a reinstall of Manjaro, because I tried out Gnome and using the new Gnome interface, breaks the mouse focus with the game, it runs but the menu is untouchable, unless you switch to Gnome Original which removes the modern look of Gnome and ends up looking more like KDE, without the KDE bells and whistles.
I was determined to get Sims 4 Studio to run without a) Installing The Sims 4 with wine, or doing a double install, I just wanted Studio to work with the existing Sims install under Proton Experimental.
I played a good hour or two with the paths until I finally got it to work. Disclaimer: This works with Manjaro, and if your distro installs Steam, Proton Experimental, Sims 4, Wine, or Sims 4 Studio, all bets are off but this should give you some clues as to what the path should be.
The first path I set was the Sims 4 Documents path (The second path setting) as: Z:\home\[your user login]\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\compatdata\1222670\pfx\drive_c\users\steamuser\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4
This didn't show any error so this was good to go.
I had to google and search for the second path which was rumored to be: .local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 4. I set my Sims 4 path (The First Sims 4 Path setting) as Z:\home\[your user login]\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 4
This worked and Studio began to process the Sims 4 game.
As I already mentioned, distros and how they install certain things might be different and also might change over time but this process works for now.
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Post by ethyrdude on Jul 16, 2024 13:05:34 GMT -5
Getting the program to run and actually using Sims 4 studio are two entirely different elephants. I've had to give up using Studio under Linux as it's just not working right. Well, can't really expect anything different as the program was designed to run under windows, soo...
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Post by ethyrdude on Jul 17, 2024 21:28:04 GMT -5
New Info: I ended up doing a complete system reinstall and now I have studio working as it should. This was not an easy process as the issues encountered were not easy to solve. I won't post a tutorial as this process was done using Manjaro, an Arch based OS and this process might be easier on another distro. Suffice it to say that I can now open package files with Studio, I can export and import meshes and Studio seems to be functioning fully although I haven't tried all the various tools, etc. I may yet encounter other issues but so far so good.
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Post by ethyrdude on Sept 28, 2024 12:57:13 GMT -5
Okay, something changed in Sims 4 Studio and it's crapped out again. I have a second computer running Windows 10 and The Sims 4 along with Studio just to edit mods but this is a real pain. I tried using Lutris but this gives the same error and I am not sure what that error is as the message is not very helpful but to me it looks like something is out of memory even though system monitor doesn't show any memory issues. In CAS, I can select an item but it never opens and eventually pops open a black box indicating an error as occurred but no message to say what. I tried installing Sims 4 Studio in Bottles, this works but will not open te path to my game so it's useless and no idea if it would even work if I did "find" the path. I really don't want to reinstall windows on my main computer as just doesn't work well but I may have to go this route.
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Post by erson on Oct 16, 2024 3:28:01 GMT -5
Linux tends to not suffer from bloat, so usually there's no reason to not simply install software to the root filesystem. In other words: ain't broke; don't fix. (The exception to this is some gaming software, but there's VidMate usually an option within that software to change the storage path for its large library files.) |
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Post by ethyrdude on Oct 19, 2024 15:11:53 GMT -5
Well, I have tried this with wine, Lutris, Bottles and Port Proton with both Manjaro and with Mint and after all my manipulations, trials and errors, I would have to say that if you want this to run properly, either use Windows 10 or 11. Yes, I can get the program to run but, it will not link properly to my game and either the path to my documents is wrong and/or the path to the game itself either is wrong or generates an error. Good luck to anyone who wishes to try but for now, this program remains in the realm of Microsoft. I think the main issue is that running the Sims 4 through Steam & Proton and trying to get Studio to run through something else is the biggest hurdle. I doubt if Steam would host this but that would probably be the most elegant solution. I will probably take another swing at this later but for now, case closed.
Edit: OMG, I am growing older by the second frikking around with this. Instead of using Wine, Bottles, whatever to install Studio, I used Proton Tricks to install which I then specify to use the wine prefix for my sims 4 game, set up by Proton in Steam. This is done after installing the Windows desktop Runtime app, otherwise you have to download it and install first, also done through Proton tricks and the wine config for sims 4. Sims 4 Studio starts after the install and the paths are already set up for you, hurray! Only one issue, Studio will not actually open any packages but closes with a black box error. At least, Studio sees the game packages, I just have to figure out how to get around the error. I haven't gotten around to installing blender yet, it seems happy to install however I go about it but there's no point if I can't load any packages. Later!
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I played around with this again for the better part of a day and guess what? Using winetricks got the program to run but game files could not be found. Again, I enabled flatpacks with its ambiguous spelling (Flatpacks, flatpaks) make up your mind, and installed bottles. It runs but I couldn't get it to see The Sims, getting stuck at /home/"user"/.local/share/. Even though all the folders are there, including Steam and my sim game install, all Bottles could see was the Flatbak folder and guess what? There are no games installed in there. I get the picture, create a bottle and it makes kind of a package but I wasn't about to mess up my game to see if it worked or not, so I didn't even try to install the Sims game into the bottle. So, as per the above post, I am no further ahead than before. It's fine, I don't do much modding anymore anyways so I will have to admit defeat. This next year or two promises to be interesting as far as Windows goes and who knows what the future will bring. At the moment, I am drinking coffee, and typing up my findings and on that note I wish everyone well.
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Okay, how many who have been following this nightmare have been sitting there snickering away? Common, fess up, I could hear you! Anyways, I got rid of the error, but OMG at what cost? I went into settings and unticked Disable Hardware Rendering and now there is no error but be still my epileptic heart! The unstability of this app hits the big screen most unpleasantly with a flickering that would make a hummingbird go into seizures. Obviously, this was not made with vulkan witchery in mind but it does work now. I am going to try this on my main system so duck if you hear yelling. I am sure it will work but not in a nice way. This will obviously need some work but remember, next year there will be a lot of computers no longer supported by Microsoft and many will get switched to Linux, catch my drift? So I suppose even if I had gotten this to work with Bottles, the end results would have been the same?
Edit:Combined all posts into one for easier reading. Also to add This also works in Manjaro now and I must say, with much less flickering although it could be due to having installed the stand alone AMD Vulkan driver.
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Post by ethyrdude on Oct 21, 2024 12:36:54 GMT -5
I'm Baaaackk! For the path issue, I have found after many, many retries, if your game was installed through Steam which is the easiest way to install The Sims 4 in Linux and you used one of the many proton variations, then just use the ProtonTricks Launcher to install and run Sims 4 Studio, select your game wine prefix in the pop up window (Hint: The Sims 4 1222670). This will set up your paths for you, no messing around with hidden files/folders and whatnot. You will need to install windowsdesktop-runtime-6.0.xx-win-x64 (replace the first two xx with whatever the version number is) and you can do that first, also with Proton Tricks. erson: Yeah a root install might work but all needs to go to root, and in my case as there is no Root admin, everything goes to my home directory which may be the way many people install it. I could force it into root but why? I only posted originally as I was having issues as the original poster. Oh speaking of the original poster, knowei, I think we have a working solution. Oh and btw, to get rid of the black box with the error on it, untick Disable Hardware Rendering in settings and hope you don't get a horrible visual experience. |
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