Enverex wrote: > I had the Sims 3 working up until the town load section It works pretty well for me, just had to do winetricks d3dx9 Enverex wrote: > and was about to test something for Jeffz when something (I honestly don't know what) caused some breakage to do with the MS C++ libraries. > "rm -rf ~/.wine" isn't an option as I have a lot installed and always wiping Wine for issues that can occur frequently isn't really a sensible option anyway. Sadly, we're not very good at repairing broken windows directories (and neither is real windows). The best I can suggest is to become comfortable with using multiple wineprefixes; that way you can reinstall any app whose wineprefix accidentally becomes corrupted.