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Wine, Loader and Licences 11/08/2015 at 01:18 #74987
Gwasanaethau
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Hi all,

I have recently installed SimSig on my Ubuntu partition via Wine. Apart from issues with the XML F2 screen, the sims seem to be working really well. However, I am currently having issues with licences.

I have deallocated all the licences I have purchased from my Windows 8 partition and allocated them to the Ubuntu partition. However, when I start a loader sim for which I have a licence (LTS, for example), I am told that my licence is unsuitable and that demo mode has been activated for a few minutes. I have licences for some of the McSims (Edinburgh, Central Scotland, North East Scotland and Cowlairs) and these are working correctly (i.e. the full simulation loads). Any thoughts?

I have created a ‘SimSig’ folder in ‘users/Public/Documents’ and created a ‘Common.cfg’ file inside it manually in an attempt to solve the issue.

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Wine, Loader and Licences 11/08/2015 at 02:21 #74988
Hawk777
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I don’t know why you’d be having this problem, but I use Wine and I just tried running Marylebone and had no problem with my license. So, it is possible to use Wine with the loader and payware sims.
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Wine, Loader and Licences 11/08/2015 at 03:45 #74989
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I was sure that would be the case. I wonder if the Wine version has something to do with it. Out of interest, what Wine version are you using? I appear to be using 1.6.2.
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Wine, Loader and Licences 11/08/2015 at 09:17 #75000
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Hmm…interesting…

I have tried again this morning with some different results. Starting the loader brought up the same issue, so I started the licence manager to try and deallocate/reallocate the licences one more time (Einstein: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – he obviously didn’t work with Linux!). The licence manager popped up a message saying it was syncing the licences. This had happened many times before, but previously each licence synced individually – this time it was one message for them all. Thinking this was weird, I reloaded the loader and now the sims load without demo mode activating. ‘Common.cfg’ has now been populated with licence hashes. Unfortunately I cannot explain what has happened other than I have shut down the system and restarted it in the mean time.

Just thought I’d let people know for completeness’s sake!

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Wine, Loader and Licences 11/08/2015 at 18:59 #75016
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The licence manager popped up a message saying it was syncing the licences. This had happened many times before, but previously each licence synced individually – this time it was one message for them all.
Different versions of the License Manager then. The newer has the one message for all.

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Wine, Loader and Licences 12/08/2015 at 07:01 #75030
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Looks like you’ve got it sorted out (if only by random poking), but 1.7.39, if you’re interested.
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