[Bug 30632] Sims 3 fails to validate disc

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30632

--- Comment #4 from Austin English  2012-05-09 13:43:57 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I've had the exact same issue on Ubuntu 11.10 before.
>
> I've also tried installing in wine directly with same results. This is not a
> POL issue. I didn't use automatic POL installation by the way, but rather did a
> manual install so it should be like a wine install.

A manual install still uses wine compiled by play on linux. You need to use
vanilla wine.