Greet you, simmers! :-)
My younger sister and me, we are playing Sims 2 since... well, it was released. At last I ran it on a win7-system without ANY trouble.
But my old win7-system became too old and slowly for newer games - and MS dropped support this year. Yet I loved my win7, I had to build a new system, now running a fresh win10 x64 Education. My new Hardware:
- ASRock B450 Pro
- Ryzen 5 3600 (Matisse / Zen 2)
- Radeon RX 5500 XT
Well, 3-4 years before, I managed to install our Sims 2 (CD-version) on my laptop - running win10 x64 Education, too. No problems right from the start except from low resolution and black squares - i could fix this thanks to internetguides! But I know need to work with my laptop while my sister would like to play the game...
Thus I now tried to install the Sims 2 on my new build system yesterday. Long story shortened: It doesn't work.
Here the long story^^:
I installed it using the 4 CD-Roms. There was a short stuck when inserting CD 2 - guess it was because of a interference with another program's backround progress. But afterwards no problems any more. After the installation, I just wanted to install one of the expansions, but - no, let me check first, if the basic game runs... *klickklick*
--> The desktop screen resolution became very low and the screen was blackened for a second. Ok, I know this behaviour on start from older games, especially the Sims 2. But then it goes back to "normal" desktop and tells me: "The application has crashed. The application will terminate now." And sometimes, when I try again to start, it just tells me: "Unspecified error." (Loving these overwhelming error-messages! :-D )
I tried a few things yesterday:
1) Just installing an expansion on top. Crashed during installation with update-error-message und was uninstalled. [To be expected...^^]
2) Oh, sure, running as Administrator and/or on different compability modes (winXP, win7). Didn't help.
3) Doing some changes on GraphicRules.sgr taken from different internetguides. Didn't help. [I can't tell you every change I tried any more. Sorry!![Sad]( "Sad")
But it was nothing complicated, because I'm really no IT-crack. ![Wink]( "Wink")
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4) Patching with CD-version-patch from "modthesims". Crashed during installation with update-error-message. (Yes, CD 4 had been inserted!)
5) Taking No-CD-Patch from - don't know, if I may mention it here, so I leave it for now... Well, the "patch" seemed to work in words of beeing able to start the game without CD. But "my" error still remained.
6) Somewhere I found a GraphicsRule.sgr for Radeon. Replaced my old ones by this. Didn't change anything.
7) Oh, almost forgotten: Yes, I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Still the same issue...
I'm sorry that I'm not able to recall every detail I tried yesterday any more! What I still have to say is:
- I uninstalled the Sims 2 again.
- Because I just build this new system, everything's up to date, and there are no undeteced devices.
- I managed to install some other games from CD and DVD, thus it's not about my CD/DVD-device.
- I managed to install the Sims 2 just a few years ago on my laptop and the CDs have been safe and clean and not used since then. Thus I doubt they're broken. Not to mention: There have been no errors during the installation itself... both times!
I know, it's an old game, not made for new hard- and software. But maybe you could help me to make it run though? :-)
My younger sister (and me) would really enjoy to play on... ;-)
...and please excuse my bad english! I'm no native speaker, so you may have to be a bit patient with me. ;-)
Have a nice day,
Chaotica
My younger sister and me, we are playing Sims 2 since... well, it was released. At last I ran it on a win7-system without ANY trouble.
But my old win7-system became too old and slowly for newer games - and MS dropped support this year. Yet I loved my win7, I had to build a new system, now running a fresh win10 x64 Education. My new Hardware:
- ASRock B450 Pro
- Ryzen 5 3600 (Matisse / Zen 2)
- Radeon RX 5500 XT
Well, 3-4 years before, I managed to install our Sims 2 (CD-version) on my laptop - running win10 x64 Education, too. No problems right from the start except from low resolution and black squares - i could fix this thanks to internetguides! But I know need to work with my laptop while my sister would like to play the game...
Thus I now tried to install the Sims 2 on my new build system yesterday. Long story shortened: It doesn't work.
Here the long story^^:
I installed it using the 4 CD-Roms. There was a short stuck when inserting CD 2 - guess it was because of a interference with another program's backround progress. But afterwards no problems any more. After the installation, I just wanted to install one of the expansions, but - no, let me check first, if the basic game runs... *klickklick*
--> The desktop screen resolution became very low and the screen was blackened for a second. Ok, I know this behaviour on start from older games, especially the Sims 2. But then it goes back to "normal" desktop and tells me: "The application has crashed. The application will terminate now." And sometimes, when I try again to start, it just tells me: "Unspecified error." (Loving these overwhelming error-messages! :-D )
I tried a few things yesterday:
1) Just installing an expansion on top. Crashed during installation with update-error-message und was uninstalled. [To be expected...^^]
2) Oh, sure, running as Administrator and/or on different compability modes (winXP, win7). Didn't help.
3) Doing some changes on GraphicRules.sgr taken from different internetguides. Didn't help. [I can't tell you every change I tried any more. Sorry!
But it was nothing complicated, because I'm really no IT-crack. 
]4) Patching with CD-version-patch from "modthesims". Crashed during installation with update-error-message. (Yes, CD 4 had been inserted!)
5) Taking No-CD-Patch from - don't know, if I may mention it here, so I leave it for now... Well, the "patch" seemed to work in words of beeing able to start the game without CD. But "my" error still remained.
6) Somewhere I found a GraphicsRule.sgr for Radeon. Replaced my old ones by this. Didn't change anything.
7) Oh, almost forgotten: Yes, I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Still the same issue...
I'm sorry that I'm not able to recall every detail I tried yesterday any more! What I still have to say is:
- I uninstalled the Sims 2 again.
- Because I just build this new system, everything's up to date, and there are no undeteced devices.
- I managed to install some other games from CD and DVD, thus it's not about my CD/DVD-device.
- I managed to install the Sims 2 just a few years ago on my laptop and the CDs have been safe and clean and not used since then. Thus I doubt they're broken. Not to mention: There have been no errors during the installation itself... both times!
I know, it's an old game, not made for new hard- and software. But maybe you could help me to make it run though? :-)
My younger sister (and me) would really enjoy to play on... ;-)
...and please excuse my bad english! I'm no native speaker, so you may have to be a bit patient with me. ;-)
Have a nice day,
Chaotica