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The steam version is from steam, downloaded from steam and installed via steam. I have tried running it with multiple versions of Proton and Proton-GE to varying degrees of success. It either runs at a single digit frame rate, crashes on start up, or if it manage to get it running okay, it also cannot save.
The version I have installed currently is the fitgirl repack. I downloaded before we started troubleshooting, I had downloaded and installed it on a previous install of mint (I had to wipe that and install again due to me encrypting the home folder and that causing issues. Since then I redownloaded the sims4 FG repack. I installed it for the first time on this install of mint yesterday. Having the same issue with saving as I had on the last install of mint. That time however I used a guide from reddit that was very convoluted compared to how I installed it yesterday.
The current install of TS4 is in
/home/user_name/Games/the-sims-4-lutris/drive_c/Program Files/The Sims 4/Game/Bin/TS4_x64.exeI do not see a way to set the save folder. This was installed via Lutris, and I used this install location because the default when installing was Z:\Games\The Sims 4, but doing so fails. Which is why I have it in c:.I am wondering if I create the directory first if that will work.
Edit: read your post more carefully and see you gave me your path for install. I used that same path (roughly) still it is using c:\users\user_name\
Installation takes like 2+ hours, so it is working currently.
Inside your install path it will create a c/users/username/documents like a Windows directory, that is the documents folder that it saves your local saves too. So you can navigate there on her old Windows machine if she has one and copy her save files from there and dump them in the same location and it should make them available. (The save file location is what I was worried didn't have read/write permissions). But it's just a guess from the fact that it was saying it can't save, which if it didn't have read permissions, if maybe couldn't create/read the default directories during first time setup or w.e.
Hopefully you'll get lucky and it works this time without having to edit anything
I installed to
/home/user_name/Games/the-sims-4/drive_c/users/windows_user/Games/The Sims 4/Game/Bin/TS4_x64.exeand 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.Glad to hear it, anytime.
Text from my wife just now:
Haha, understandable. Frustrating I'm sure for her. At least we tried I guess.
If only it was installed on my ps5... although I do not know that it is keyboard and mouse compatible there.
No idea, I assume a mouse keyboard will work fine, but I don't know if the PlayStation version will have the buttons/GUI mapped the same.