I've just loaded up the newly installed Mansion and Garden stuff pack and got a message along the lines of 'You have uninstalled Freetime and any hobby lots will be removed', and a choice to continue or quit. I've quit and am wondering if the fix is as simple as reinstalling Freetime, or if everything is now FUBAR'd?

The game, including Freetime, worked fine at last load this morning before I installed M & G. Has this happened for anyone else? I'm wondering if it's because I left the cracked exe for Apartment Life in.

ETA: Freetime installed over the top, nothing asploded, no hobby enthusiasm appears to have been lost and I'm currently delighted with the quarter tile placement cheat and sunflowers.

I also had issues with my nvidia card (GeForce GO 6600, not supported for Sims2) after I installed Bon Voyage. As well as the huge black triangles my sims would float around with their arms out in quite a sinister way after about ten minutes of game play. I resolved by adding "boolprop useshaders false" to my userstartup cheat. No problems since, although you lose the fish in ponds.