Issue running patcher under Wine - blank window

[andoruB]

I know this might be beyond the scope of this patcher, but I wanted to run the Windows version of the patcher under Wine. At first it crashed. Read the other issue mentioned that .NET 4.0/4.7 was required, so I installed it.

After running it again, it worked, but I could only see a blank/black window:

Any idea what could be causing this?

Patcher version: 3.7.2
Wine version: 8.21

[FaithBeam]

This will likely never work under wine. The patcher targets .NET 6 which can be installed with winetricks, but I think it doesn't support any GUI.

[KrisadaFantasy]

Just want to add that since I cannot run it, I try doing the patching on my PC and copy the patched .exe to Winlator emulator on android. Got wide loading screen but freeze right before it was about to cut to neighbourhood screen.

[FaithBeam]

@KrisadaFantasy The patch is not composed of just Sims.exe. You need to copy the UI elements that get resized as well, otherwise the game freezes or crashes. In the UIGraphics folder, copy every folder except the Shared folder:

[KrisadaFantasy]

Works perfectly, thank you very much!

Now I'm going to experiment with wrapper and resolution, as FPS dropped from 25-25 with 800600 to 10-15 with 1280720 on my phone.

Thanks again!

[xlibun]

This will likely never work under wine. The patcher targets .NET 6 which can be installed with winetricks, but I think it doesn't support any GUI.

And what if I don't have a Windows computer/install handy? Will the Linux version of the app work with the Windows version of the game?

[xlibun]

Okay, it does run, and ask me to point to the Sims.exe, but why is DDrawCompat wrapper not available, if every Linux user is going to run the game via Wine anyway?

[FaithBeam]

@xlibun As far as I know, ddrawcompat is not compatible with wine on linux nor in VMs. If I'm mistaken, let me know so I can update the program to allow for that.

[xXTopaz]

I got the legacy patcher to open under Wine 8.2 with Windows version set to WinXP but when I try to patch the file it says "ERROR SimsWidescreenPatcher.App - An unhandled exception occured: Collection is read-only."