http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31797
--- Comment #7 from Thomas Mertes thomas.mertes@gmx.at 2012-09-26 14:58:36 CDT --- Sorry to confuse you. I actually did the tests with wine-1.4 on two computers.
The logs with the "katharina" prompt were done on a 64-bit Mint Cinnamon Linux and the logs with the "tm" prompt were done on a 32-bit Ubuntu Linux.
In both cases the intro video is displayed correctly (sometimes without sound, but maybe this is related to the not-clean wine prefix) and then a window with an unreadable font appears (see attachment). When pressing the checkmark the program crashes.
In this case I installed a 32-bit libtxc_dxtn on the 32-bit Ubuntu Linux machine, and as you can see it does not make a difference.
<complain mode> The Sims 3 is currently in the platinum list, so I expect that it works out of the box with a stable wine version. Therefore I bought The Sims 3. Since I installed wine-1.4 on both machines with a package manager I expect that all dependencies on libraries are taken into account. So when the library libtxc_dxtn is needed by wine it should be installed automatically by the packet manager. Maybe someone should contact the people in charge for the Debian wine package to add a dependency for libtxc_dxtn. If some fonts are necessary for wine they should also be a dependency of the wine package. I am also irritated that The Sims 3 cannot be started by clicking on the icon. Additionally there are so many fixme messages. IMHO platinum should only be granted, when clicking on the icon works and when no fixme message occurs. </complain mode>
Sorry for my complaints, but I am really disapointed. I know that this is open source and I get it for free and I should not complain, but I hope that at some point in the future I can trust the platinum list...
Please help to raise The Sims 3 to a real platinum state. This would convince my daughter (katharina) that Linux and Wine are superior to Windows. I have forced my whole family to use Linux for years, but now I want to show them why I think it is superior. :-)
Regards, Thomas Mertes