Opps. Oh, well don't expect much better than that from me. I keep forgetting to check whenever EA updates the store and haven't been able to spend any points.

Has anyone bought the Buccaneer's Bounty set? I've got the 700 points that requires.

Inspired by CharmingFirewaller, here's my attempt at 5 Sim Lane. The house itself is almost identical. The only thing that is missing is the piano. It's a bit dark, so it might help to place some more lamps. No graves, unfortunately.  

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The Sims 2 with all expansion packs and stuff packs is 11.3 GB for me. That's just the games though, no user data. I also removed most of the unessential files (languages, startup movies, splash music, etc.) I'm sure you could make it slightly smaller by compressing the package files too. I would allocate at least 35+ GB personally. It would be better to have it larger than you need at the moment instead of finding it too small later.

From my experience with BootCamp, you can read the Windows partitions from within Mac OS X, but you can't write to NTFS. You can't read or write to the Mac OS X partition in Windows by default, but I know there are plugins for both.

Yep, that's the one.
By the way, has anyone tried deleting the CarryForward.sgfiles.package files? They seem to just contain stuff from previous expansion packs, so I'm wondering if you have all of them it would be okay to get rid of them. That would be another 395MB off the installation. Something else that I don't see mentioned that I have done, is to delete the splash.package files. The neat thing is you can keep the one from your favorite expansion pack and then it'll use that one when starting up. Or just delete all of them and not have to hear the annoying loop over and over.

RAM is very easy to upgrade.  BTW, if these are custom builds, don't upgrade the memory directly from the manufacture. They charge insane amounts, and usually you can install it yourself for way less. Also, since these are laptops it would be a really good idea to get a cooling pad to put them on. Those are very powerful graphics chips and will put out a ton of heat when playing games.

What exactly does Improved Graphics do, anyway? Does it make games more fun? Because it seems unbreakable is more useful than that as they seem to break every other use.

I haven't tried to make a basement in TS3 yet, but in TS2 what I would do was put wallpaper on  the foundation. Then I'd keep lowering the ground until I saw the bottom of the paper. This is probably still valid.

Yes, but now you can tweak it so it doesn't bother you as much. You can still turn it off completely as well.

I have The Sims 2 with all expansion packs installed on Windows 7 64x build 7127 and everything is working fine. The Sims 1 (I still play it) and The Sims 3 work as well.

What about the Sager NP5793? I was able to build a computer with a better processor, video card, and blu-ray drive than the Dell Laptop. They still sell their PCs with XP too. If you're going for a desktop though It would still be a much better value to build your own.

It still works fine for me with M&G installed. Do you have any other package files named 'Live.package' in your downloads folder?

There's that pink building in the background too. It seems like there is a balcony because of the fence, but at that angle there's no bottom visible. So now we're back to no ceilings? 

The same people who purchased Open for Business?

Look at your skintones, those would be more likely to be causing this.

I think it's tight pants, it's working fine in my game. 
Also, this really should be made a sticky!

ARR! Besides, by the time Aspyr gets the next expansion pack out you'll be able to get The Sims 2 Complete Collection in the bargain bin for $9.99. 

I'm not sure if anyone else has done this already but I fixed this teen bob mesh. That weird square was bugging me.
Edit: Also the broken files seem to be these:
ambodysimslogohoodie.package
ambodysimslogotee.package
afbodysimslogotee.package

http://www.mediafire.com/?bnmmnwhmz0l


Moderator edit: moved the file offsite

I believe that he fixed it at some point, it might be worth downloading again.

Faizah, mine is two separate files. Just install the one for the good witch.

Or if you would prefer not to do that every time, kick everyone out first.

Is there anything worth 50 points that I can grab? I just kind of want to be done with the store now.

It will affect all of the witches.
Do you have SimPe? It should be fine if you export the strings from mine and import them into that one.

Really simple, I just removed the text from the witches/warlocks so it doesn't show as Blah Bluh the Incredibly Annoying Warlock anymore. The file has to be titled Live.package or this won't work.

Updated, compressorized.

The MSI Wind uses the same processor I think.