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I have installed nightlife and now there are no files in the EA GAMES folder in my documents where my downloads go. The folder is there but there is no Terrain, downloads, neighborhood, etc. what now? |
8 Oct 2005, 19:45 |
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6 Mar 2006, 15:30 |
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The sims2 ran fine on my computer but i bought the expansion pack university and had trouble installing it i did install it eventually but when i go to open it the white screen appears but it never loads? does anyone have any ideas? |
17 Apr 2005, 02:16 |
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25 Apr 2005, 18:54 |
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Installed the game fine. I have all the requirements needed. Manage to play the game. Save and quit the game as per normal but when I wanna start the game again it says "The application has crashed. The application will now terminate." Why?? |
15 Jul 2005, 04:33 |
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22 Jul 2005, 00:29 |
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i bought sims 2 yesterday for a brand new dell pentium 4 pc. it won't install.. sometimes it stops on 79% sometimes something else. my daughter is going to kill me!!! |
24 Mar 2005, 22:52 |
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12 Aug 2006, 13:36 |
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I have installed sims 2 perfectaly fine but it says my comp dsn't have directx 9.0c compatible graphics adapters... jsut wondering wat i have to do to make it work? |
29 Sep 2004, 09:24 |
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29 Sep 2004, 12:45 |
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i went to the directx website to download the direct x 9.0 and it started to install but then it said it didn't copy a file what does that mean? |
12 Dec 2004, 21:16 |
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12 Dec 2004, 21:25 |
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I installed sims2 then when i try to play it i get this message "please instert the correct cd-rom,select ok and restart application" any ideas? |
4 Aug 2005, 16:38 |
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3 Sep 2005, 07:59 |
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I want to uninstall my sims game when the university expansion comes out, but I would like to keep my houses. Is there a way of saving a neighbourhood to a folder, reinstalling and getting them back in the game?? Thanks xx |
8 Mar 2005, 22:10 |
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11 Mar 2005, 20:45 |
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I have got nightlife installed on my computer and it works fine. But when i installed open for business, an error message pops up saying i have just uninstalled nightlife. Is there a way to play both expansions simultaneously? |
12 Mar 2006, 06:10 |
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11 Jul 2006, 03:29 |
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I re-installed Sims 2, and now when i load a family it wont work! It gets as far as lighting up all the squares then it stays on the same screen 4 ages, and a popup appears saying "the system has crashed" |
5 Jan 2005, 20:59 |
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4 Mar 2006, 23:07 |
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After playing Sims2,I am having problems with Internet Explorer.It will connect to the Internet,but it comes up with 'page cannot be displayed' each time, & only solution I have found is using sys restore. |
5 Jun 2006, 19:25 |
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9 Jun 2006, 00:19 |
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When I install more than 3 expansion packs the walls in sims houses and create a family start to flash red and I can't do anything about it! Please tell me whats wrong! Its so frustrating! |
27 Dec 2006, 10:03 |
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30 Dec 2006, 01:18 |
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Since i installed direct x 9 iv found some of my direct x files r missin, how do i get these files cuz it wont let me start sims2????????? |
18 Jan 2005, 19:16 |
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19 Jan 2005, 19:51 |
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Ok my video card or whatever is a rage pro and i wanted to update it and i downloaded it but where was i suppose to download it to?? |
26 Sep 2005, 08:00 |
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28 Sep 2005, 07:15 |
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I have had the Sims2 on my computer for awhile and it has been working perfectly. I received the University expansion pack for Christmas and loaded it, but I can't get it to work. The main menu loads fine. The neighbourhood view is fine. However when I... |
13 Jan 2006, 00:22 |
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1 Aug 2006, 15:43 |
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I just purchased TS2 for Mac. No one was sure whether it would run. But I have close to the system requirements. I drag the folder onto the harddrive and it copy's it fine. But it doesn't even load when I double click it. I can't even get the game to run. |
15 Oct 2005, 18:01 |
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21 Apr 2006, 16:58 |
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I have nightlife installed on my computer. But when i just installed open for business, an message pops up saying "you have just uninstalled nightlife, if you continue, your... will be deleted". Is there a way to not make it uninstall? |
17 Feb 2007, 22:48 |
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30 Oct 2007, 15:28 |
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ive insatlled the sims2 and in need the directX 9.0c thing wat do i do? |
12 Dec 2004, 09:38 |
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24 Jan 2005, 18:35 |
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I have the sims 2 and it will not load at all. I have XP but I cannot find anything wrong I tried setup.exe on run, but it tells me to goto my control panel, which it cannot read the disk when I add/remove programs. |
16 Oct 2004, 18:55 |
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24 Dec 2004, 06:34 |
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My comp has directx9.0b so i upgraded with the TS2 CD &it says the installation's succesful but TS2 wont run saying that c is not installed (dxdiag still says b).I tried extracting d3d9.dll into system32 MANY TIMES but the replacing file refuses to stick! |
22 May 2006, 10:34 |
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3 Jun 2006, 07:50 |
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I have Sims 2 DVD version. Nothing happens when I put the game in the drive it does not recognise it, EA games cannot help. My system meets requirements and I have tried loads of stuff suggested from EA nothing works. The game will work on other machines |
26 Nov 2005, 17:06 |
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27 Nov 2005, 11:09 |
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How do I download directx 9.0c onto a cd? Do I have to have a cd burner? I don't have the internet so I'm getting it from another computer. My computer is windows xp. I'm not sure how to burn cds either. |
1 Feb 2006, 18:08 |
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3 Feb 2006, 02:13 |
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ive installed sims2 but when i try to load game is just says its encountered a prob n needs to close. ive tried directX installing etc but nothings workin. bodyshop works fine. plz tell me wot i can do!! |
30 Jun 2006, 14:46 |
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13 Dec 2006, 07:30 |
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how do i start? |
1 Apr 2006, 12:33 |
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5 May 2006, 22:23 |
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Help! I have TS2 and it worked properly until I downloaded University Crack from internet and it messed my game up. I erased the University because it didn't work. But when I tried to play Sims 2 the window pop up saying that run latest sim2 EP Installed |
2 Jul 2006, 13:52 |
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3 Jan 2007, 10:29 |
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