this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
34 points (90.5% liked)

Linux Gaming

20574 readers
357 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
monolalia@lemmy.world
34
How the heck do I get Sim 4 running on Linux Mint? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I have tried multiple different versions of proton, ge proton, I have tried the EA launcher, and a few black magic incantations. It either runs at 4fps or will not load at all. I have tried everything i can find on protondb that is not an ancient report.

I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an Intel i5. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd100509-overview-for-thinkpad-x1-carbon-type-20bs-20bt

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I have it running and saving finally. I installed through lutris. From another thread I was going support:

I installed to /home/user_name/Games/the-sims-4/drive_c/users/windows_user/Games/The Sims 4/Game/Bin/TS4_x64.exe and it is saving, it is launching. I will let you know how it is doing once my wife has played a bit. Thank you very much for helping me with this.

I am going to dig into what you wrote because it looks like there is a lot of amazingly useful things in it. I really appreciate your help with this. And my wife is currently making a sim.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Glad to hear it's working!

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago

Text from my wife just now:

The Sims keeps locking up. I appreciate that you went above and beyond, but it’s done. Stick a fork in it.