The Sims 2 Legacy Collection (3314070)

[Blayer98]

Compatibility Report

• Steam AppID of the game: 3314070

System Information

• Proton version: 9.0.4
• Device: Steam Deck 256GB LED

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

The game appears to work fine on Steam Deck, but there is an issue regarding in-game video captures, and I haven’t found any issues from anyone else with this. Simply press V or select the cam recorder icon on the GUI and you should get an “unspecified error” popup. Sometimes you may get an error with Smooth Edges, but changing this value doesn’t seem to fix the issue.

steam-3314070.log

[nikspyratos]

Game launches perfectly fine for me, everything seems to run okay.

However, no matter what I try, the game is always using my integrated GPU instead of the dedicated one (confirmed via nvidia-smi) - so performance is abysmal at anything higher than 800p resolution. I don't have this issue with other games. I'm not sure if this is a proton issue or a game issue, but I imagine others will run across the same problem.

I'm on a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ITH6 (11th gen i5, 3050Ti mobile) on Ubuntu 24.04 using proprietary 550 drivers. Default DE settings (i.e. using Wayland). Steam installed via snap. Have tried Proton 9.0.4, GE9-23, and Experimental.

I've tried:

• prime-run: doesn't do anything
• DRI_PRIME: doesn't do anything
• DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME launches but then errors saying there is no Direct X 9 compatible driver
• PROTON_USE_WINED3D shows a different error about a bad call
• MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT also does nothing.
• Setting the Nvidia prime profile to use the GPU for everything (and then rebooted). This makes my whole system performance horrible and then the game just immediately closes without any errors.

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EDIT: Hmm, I'm still not sure about this particular issue, but after accidentally getting Cyberpunk 2077 to also run at a smooth 60 frames on this machine, I thought I'd tinker with the graphics settings on this even more. Turning antialiasing all the way down improves performance drastically.

[ninja-]

by "other games" do you mean Steam games too? most likely Nvidia Vulkan layer is not registered and detected (from within snap).
Snap steam has a bad reputation, try native or flatpak steam with flatpak nvidia drivers and flatpak Proton-GE

[Blayer98]

Speaking of GE Proton, I tried the latest version of that and the unspecified error when attempting to record a video still occurs.

[nikspyratos]

by "other games" do you mean Steam games too? most likely Nvidia Vulkan layer is not registered and detected (from within snap). Snap steam has a bad reputation, try native or flatpak steam with flatpak nvidia drivers and flatpak Proton-GE

Yes, I haven't had this issue with other games on Steam.

Migrating off snap is on my todo list for sure, but I'm not sure why using the snap would affect just one game here.