Sims 1 Legacy Collection on steam deck create-a-sim glitch

I have been excited af to play the sims 1 on my steam deck, and the game gets to the default neighborhood screen just fine, but when I click on “create or select family”, the game crashes right back to the launch screen with no notifications or error messages- just abruptly brings me back to launch menu as if I closed the window. I haven’t been able to find much on this issue, has anyone else experienced it/know of a way to fix it?