[Lorus]

For other people who had my problem a few posts above, the problem was I was using stage foundation instead of regular foundation.

For the folks having freezing troubles on laptops, I suspect the graphics card is the trouble. The first post in this thread addresses such problems: http://forums.techguy.org/2042910-post1.html
Laptops are known for having trouble running games, mainly because of the graphics card. Graphics cards tend to be large, especially for good ones, making it difficult to fit them into laptops. Even with Molly, if she wasn't paying attention to what kind of card her new one has, might have even got a worse card than her old one had, especially since most laptops have integrated graphics.

I run the Sims 2 with little trouble on my laptop with the default settings, with a low-end Radeon card, the XPRESS 200M (2GB RAM, 1.6Ghz AMD dual-core processor). The card is generally the only reason I will be unable to run a game or have trouble doing so. Even so, when I was shopping for laptops a year and a half ago even a card like mine was hard to find in a pre-made laptop.

Here is a comparison list of some cards: http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/in...owtopic=797401

The game that was posted for, Oblivion, my computer will barely run at the lowest settings because of the card, in other areas my computer is past not only minimum, but recommended specs.

Masamune, I'm not sure if your card will give you any troubles, it is quite low end but doesn't seem much worse than mine. What I definitely think is causing trouble is your RAM, while recommended RAM is half a gig for the Sims 2, Vista tends to need significantly more RAM. My understanding is that it will barely run on 1GB of RAM and at least 2GB is recommended; you'll scarcely see computers with Vista with less than 2GB being sold today. Fortunately, RAM is pretty cheap and easy to upgrade, so I'd just throw another gig or so in.

[hellandbliss]

hi, thanks for the reply, so do you think i should just get more ram? Mines a 2gb ram at the mo. How much more do you think i should get?

[Nekochanpurr]

wow, 2 gb should be more than enough.. I would suspect either the graphics card (if you have later expansions especially), or an over heating issue. Do you have any sort of fan you can put under your laptop? I know that lets my sis play on hers, and she def doesn't have 2 gigs..

[kingmz]

I recently bought The Sims 2 and it has this error message when I try to download it, " A problem occurred trying to transfer the file TSData\Res\Sims3D\Sims08.package from the media. Then it asks me if I want to retry to copy the file or end the installation , but when I try to retry the same error message occurs, what can my problem be?

[Darkst4r]

Wow there sure are alot of problems with this game it seems ! Keeping this thread up to date must be a full time job !
My question isnt so much a problem as an inquiry.
Ive been playing the sims 2 for around a week now and am considering getting some expansion packs (free time , Bon voyage etc) but im wondering how exactly they work/affect the original game.
Will they be just like sims 2 but with different options and neighbourhoods or do these packs use the existing installed components to run a totally separate game ?

[The_Patient]

Q:well i created my family and i pick a house to live in. when i click on it, it stays on that screen and my family just wanders around floating then it starts freezing. its weird please help

[highflier]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem that seems to be fairly common from reading several forums, but I can't find a solution.

During the loading screen after creating a family, the game locks up.

I have University, Nightlife, Open for Business and Pets installed. I don't think it's a problem with my system specs (Vista, 1.8GHz, 2 Gigs, Intel Mobile X3100...more details needed just ask), as the game used to run absolutely perfectly until recently when this problem began. I can't think of anything that I changed/installed which may have instigated this. Any ideas as to what might be causing it and how to solve it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[thomasz]

this problem could solve soon, thanks.

[InternetSurfer]

Originally Posted by Darkst4r

Wow there sure are alot of problems with this game it seems ! Keeping this thread up to date must be a full time job !
My question isnt so much a problem as an inquiry.
Ive been playing the sims 2 for around a week now and am considering getting some expansion packs (free time , Bon voyage etc) but im wondering how exactly they work/affect the original game.
Will they be just like sims 2 but with different options and neighbourhoods or do these packs use the existing installed components to run a totally separate game ?

It'll be the former. They are basically just add-ons to your game. I haven't heard of an expansion pack that runs separately from the original game.

[InternetSurfer]

Originally Posted by kingmz

I recently bought The Sims 2 and it has this error message when I try to download it, " A problem occurred trying to transfer the file TSData\Res\Sims3D\Sims08.package from the media. Then it asks me if I want to retry to copy the file or end the installation , but when I try to retry the same error message occurs, what can my problem be?

This is EA's response to the problem, hope it helps.

Here are some tips to help get past the CD ROM trouble you are having. Please try these one at a time, and then try loading the game after each step. If the same issue (or an additional issue) occurs, proceed to the next step.

There have been some known issues with CD ROMs reading Safedisk Correctly for Windows XP. You can try this Safedisk Patch and it should resolve your issue:

http://www.macrovision.com/solutions/software/fix.php3

Install the downloaded file, then restart your computer. If you have another CD rom/DVD/CD-RW Drive on your computer, I'd recommend trying to run it from there. If you have any Virtual CD rom drives running, such as "Daemon Tools" or "Phantom CD", these will need to be disabled. These programs will emulate a CD rom drive and will confuse the game because it will look to this drive instead of your physical CD rom drive.

If you're having trouble with the Installation of the game, you could also try copying the contents of the disk into a folder on your hard drive and try installing from there.

· Insert the CD into the CD rom.
· Exit the startup menu when it comes up.
· Double click "My Computer"
· Right click on the CD-ROM drive with the game CD in it and select "Explore".
· Hold the "CTRL" key and then hit "A". That should select all the files.
· Hold "CTRL" and hit "C". This will not look like it does much, but it's preparing to copy the files.
· Close that folder and go to your desktop.
· Right click on any blank space, and Select "New", then "Folder".
· Name the folder "Game files".
· Double click the folder we just created, and hit "CTRL" and "V". This will begin coping the files from the CD.

If the game has more then one CD rom disk, create separate folders for each CD. Once it's complete, remove the CD from your CD rom drive, and double click the setup.exe from the first folder you created.

If these steps fail, see if you can try to install the disk on another computer to verify the integrity of the disk itself. If setup fails on another system, or you do not have access to another system to try this on, you will want to contact our Warranty department for a replacement disk.

[oddshoe]

Alright I have double deluxe,university and seasons.I bought the game when it first came out with the double deluxe and had a whole bunch of showers,tubs etc.I had to reformat my computer and when I re-installed all of it it was gone.I added university and seasons and it seems like im losing content everytime i add an expansion.I have asked this question on other sites and everyone keeps telling me the same thing.That I have lost my custom content.I have never downloaded anything off any site except the patches that i was supposed to.I dont have any custom content.Why am I losing items when I re-installed the game?

Thanks for any help.

[Juxtapose]

I have been happily playing Sims since the original game was released, and have not really gotten any problems until now. The computer I am using is fairly new (less than a year old) and I cannot for the life of me get Sims 2 to run! It seems that this is a problem experienced by more then just me. I can install the game perfectly, it all runs great. But as soon as I try to launch the game, an error message pops up saying that the correct cd needs to be put into the drive before it will work. I must mention that I am currently using Virtual Daemon, a program that copies the original CDs and keeps them on file. so you never have to use the real CD ever again. I've never had a problem with VD either. So can anyone point me to a possible solution? Also, no patches currently on release have worked either.

[ktdon125]

Hi, I'm new to this site and I've been having problems with my sims 2 game that I got this past christmas. Here is my computer information:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
System Manufacturer eMachines, Inc.
System Model L7VMM2
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1995 Mhz
Total Physical Memory 768.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 168.88 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB

Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by ATI
Graphics Chipset RADEON 7500 SERIES
BIOS Part Number ATI MOBILITY/RADEON 7500
Memory Size 64 MB
Memory Type DDR SGRAM / SDRAM

I upgraded my video card to Radeon 7500 because I was having problems with the graphics. That problem is fixed but everytime I try to add furniture to the houses, after building them and while moving sims in, the game freezes and the screen turns black for a couple of seconds and my display resolution changes and my game stops working. After that a message comes up and says that there was an accelerating problem. The acceleration occurred because my video card stopped responding. I turned down the acceleration and I still have a problem. I think it may be my video card but I'm not sure. I've been trying to fix it but I don't know what else to do. The game works fine until I add furniture. Can you help me? Thanks!!

[kardogatokan]

I play the Sims 2 and it works perfectly fine, however, the longer i stay on the game for example an hour this error window pops out. This window contains the igfx error which says "Display driver igfx has stopped responding and has successfully recovered"... I have Windows XP Professional
512 RAM Intel Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80 GHz... HELP PLEASE!

[ArizGirl]

I just got The Sims 2 Double Deluxe on Tuesday night, it's my first PC game. I have an HP Pavilion dv5218nr that I bought in August 2006. I'm not sure how to get the info on the sound/video card

I installed and played the game and everything has been working great except one thing. When I quit the game and I get the disk out of my drive, my computer will get a blue screen and then it'll restart itself. After it's done starting up and everything, it'll have a thng for me to send an error report and I do, then it'll take me to the Microsoft Page saying that it's a device driver error.

Is there anything I can do to fix that? And am I hurting my laptop every time I play the game since it gives the blue screen? I'm kind of afraid to play the game since my laptop has never acted like that before. It still acts fine except for when I'm ready to eject the disk.

Thanks in advance for any help anybody can give me.