[Wine] Re: Thoughts on a possible solution to get the Sims 2 running.

[jjmckenzie]

relik1989 wrote:
> OK well I tried 3D Analyze with no luck, of course I don't now allot about it either. I'll keep trying different things in My free time to see if I can come up with something. Unfortunately My enthusiasm for getting this game working doesn't seem to be shard by many other people here. I'm Subscribed to this thread so If anyone does happen upon this thread I will be sure to check it out, even if its further down the road. Lastly, of course if I do manage to get the game to run I will come back and post a full write up.

I just went to the page for Sims 2 on the Applications Database and could not find ONE bug that was filed for this program.  I realize that Sims 3 does work and that Sims 2 used a Cider wrapper around the Windows code, but if you expect this to be fixed, bug reports have to be filed for what does/does not work along with some additional information (like log files).  I don't know where this program lies in the 'fix this' area as I'm not a DirectX code developer, but it appears problems are related to missing functions in this part of the Windows API/ABI code base.