Well. For starters, it installed fine and launched but couldn't find the disc. I'm not that interested in a (http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/dmca) patch (if it doesn't work, it doesn't) but I tried it - just to try it.
Then it won't start at all. The screen goes black and stops. I have to "killall" and the screen is now in 1024x678 (though it was 1920x1080 before launching the game). This is what I get:
** Thu Aug 12 18:34:38 2010
Starting '/opt/cxgames/bin/wineloader' 'winewrapper.exe' '--workdir' '.cxgames/The Sims 3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin' '--start' '--'
'.cxgames/The Sims 3/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/TS3.exe'
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33ecbc,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33dc60,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33d1c4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33d254,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb41-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb46-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xe8): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1a8): stub
fixme:xinput:XInputGetState (0 0x33f254)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 94 (SPI_GETMOUSETRAILS)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 4124 (SPI_GETMOUSESONAR)
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1ac): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1f4): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x210): stub
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x622bd60,0x622bc98): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x214): stub
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x8e51638,0x967ec10): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x258): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x240): stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x13a528): semi-stub
fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x40066, 0x13a528): stubWould be great if there was a way to play with the disc, but I guess that's up to Electronic Arts to fix.
[sorry for edits - admin]
Jack Phinney