That is ridiculous, EA is a bunch of Nazis.

I have been waiting for this for about 2 weeks!!!!  I think I can wait a little bit longer, and thanks so much!!!

So I'm having the same exact "CD is not valid" crap happening to me, and it's really irritating.  I hate EA and all they stand for.  If and when anyone figures it out, or if I find something that MIGHT be helpful, I will be sure to post it.

I apologize in advance if my post is misplaced.
I have been searching for the blue dress that Anastasia wears in the Disney movie.  I love that dress and I can't even find a good picture of it. Can anybody help me out??

Umm, thanks but I'm sorry I'm not as computer savvy as most of you people on here.  I understand that it is my graphics card, yes it's shitty, and I joined this damn site for computer savvy people to HELP me, not to put me down and make me sound like an idiot.  And I can run the damn game, it just dims once in a blue moon which did not make any sense.  THAT is why I posted this damn topic, because it only did it AFTER I had WA installed and stopped doing it when I installed HELS.  Mind you I play the damn game as much as everybody on here.  So if its my video card how come it doesn't do the dimming thing all the time?  I would think that it would be doing it at least every time that I play and it doesn't.  THAT IS WHY I POSTED.

I apologize for wasting everyone's time.  Like I said, it only happened after I had installed WA, and doesn't do it as much since I installed HELS.  So I had no idea what was going on, because my game didn't crash just dimmed like it would when you enter a cheat, stay like that for less than 30 seconds, then I went right back to playing.  But thank you to all who did help out.  It was appreciated.

The dimming looks like when you enter in cheats for one.  And I think it MIGHT be my video card.  I have a NVIDIA GeForce 5200 I believe.

No.  It's the game itself.  It freezes when it dims, like the music and the cursor and everything just freezes.  It's odd.

Nope. PC.

No it doesn't happen at any particular time.  When the game goes dim it looks like the whole game is going to crash.  But it doesn't, it just goes back to normal and I can continue playing.  It's odd.

So I have been noticing, ever since I got WA my game will dim in the middle of me playing.  I also added on all the store stuff and HELS and it still does it but not as much.  The weird thing about it is that it will dim, be like that for about 30 seconds or so, then go back to the way it was.  Any advice on what's going on?

Witch, I just wanted to say thank you.  Your method worked for me.  Thanks a lot!

Alright.  Thanks for the tip. 

sorry. just used to typing like that.

thank you so much guys...
and yes i am having issues with the custom content....but its just the .simpack files...i will try witch's way first if that doenst work well i guess time to uninstall the damn game and do it the other way...

thanks bunches guys!! u guys are awesome!! =]

thanks Freckles..i'll try that...its just i have been looking on here for awhile now and cant find any content that works except those .dbc files...and it blows.
but i will try that...thanks =]

hey im new to this site and i was wondering if any of you guys can do the new stuff such as the bah haus, fairies, 50's set and club casual in .dbc format. 

the regular files wont install for me...and i reaaaally want them....

Thanks bunches!! =]