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My aunt bought some Wal-Mart $200 Lenovo like 8 years ago. It ran Windows 10 like I run a mile...eventually. I put what upgrades into it I could (added some RAM and an SSD) and threw Linux Mint on it, perfectly usable.
Last week: "Hey, can my Linux computer run The Sims? They just released a bundle with Sims 1 and 2." I got to looking at it, "no info" on steam deck compatibility, system requirements require a newer GPU than her laptop, like they call out Intel HD 620 and she's got Intel HD 520.
Proton will almost certainly run it, but that machine's iGPU won't. I got to blame the hardware and not Linux!
Now just see if you can pirate the OGs and run those, close enough unless Aunt Susan is a graphics junkie.
I think I could lay my hands on legitimate original discs from back in the day, but I'm not going to take on the project of getting them to run on a modern Linux machine as I'm already having a tooth pulled this week.
https://www.protondb.com/search?q=The+Sims
Well I went to check for you and found that the "legacy edition" supposedly runs fine through proton, who knows. Good luck either way!
saving her some headaches, I think.
I've heard the rereleases are very buggy and crashy.
EA? Being lazy and publishing a subpar product? In this timeline? You don't say.
my favorite thing is that you can only get the proper UI scale and zoom level at 1440p in the rerelease Sims 1.
Its just mindboggling.