It's installed and I updated the drivers last night. I also downloaded a directx 'redist' thingie which should include dirextx9 but it's still not working and I have no idea where to look if the directx9 is actually installed now since I only see the directx11.

Product Current
Installed Driver Latest Driver
Update
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 195.62 Your PC currently has the latest driver installed for your GPU. No driver update is necessary at this time.
   
I miss my old computer and xp
Is this card even compatible with TS2?

Last week, my computer died on me so I had to buy a new one with a limited budget. (The old one was 5 years old and beyond repair according to the tech guy).
I spend two hours installing TS2 and all the ep's, sp's and patches only to get this message:

"Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer."

I thought my new one would be fine running TS2 seeing as the old one ran great until it didn't do anything anymore. I already updated the drivers on the video card and tried installing directx9, but apparently it won't install over directx11. Anyway, here is a fragment of the dxdiag text:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
           Language: Dutch (Regional Setting: Dutch)
System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
       System Model: VS421AA-UUG HPE-015be
               BIOS: OS Date: 10/16/09 13:25:44 Ver: 5.08
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         750  @ 2.67GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
             Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8184MB RAM
          Page File: 7098MB used, 9265MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
------------
      Display Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
          Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
--------------------
Direct3D:    0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw:  0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay:  0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow:  0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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          Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
       Manufacturer: NVIDIA
          Chip type: GeForce GT 230
           DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0603&SUBSYS_90441B0A&REV_A2
     Display Memory: 1004 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 1516 MB
      Shared Memory: 3583 MB
       Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
       Monitor Name: Algemeen PnP-beeldscherm
      Monitor Model: NECCI CT700pm
         Monitor Id: NCI5041
        Native Mode: 1280 x 1024(p) (60.020Hz)
        Output Type: HD15
        Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver File Version: 8.17.0011.9562 (English)
     Driver Version: 8.17.11.9562
        DDI Version: 10
       Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
  Driver Attributes: Final Retail
   Driver Date/Size: 11/21/2009 03:34:54, 11775080 bytes
        WHQL Logo'd: n/a
    WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
  Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4543-11CF-E05D-4FB01CC2C535}
          Vendor ID: 0x10DE
          Device ID: 0x0603
          SubSys ID: 0x90441B0A
        Revision ID: 0x00A2
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     Rank Of Driver: 00E62001
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       D3D9 Overlay: Supported
            DXVA-HD: Supported
       DDraw Status: Enabled
         D3D Status: Enabled
         AGP Status: Enabled

Does anyone see what the problem might be and help me in the right direction?

This game reaches a whole new level of craptastic.
Whereas the change from TS1 to TS2 was awesome (better graphics, better gameplay, better interface), the change to TS3 is a major setback imho. The sims are awful (and I'm not one of those face1 type lovers), the interface sucks majorly and the entire build/buy mode is even crappier than the TS1 one.
If there was no TS2, I'd rather play TS1 than this non-game. I'm going to unpre-order immediatly and throw this piece of crap off my precious computer!

I'll be downloading then, so thanks in advance 
I know what you mean about actually starting to play. I'm so anal about everything, every single house and sim must be made-over before I can start to play, and there's a lot of houses and sims in this hood 

I would be interesting if you or anyone fixed it, but I really don't want to bug anyone. I've started over and I will just let the Tricous and Rainelle rest in peace for now. I was thinking about removing the memories with Simpe, but I was afraid that my game would become a BFBVFS (or something like that). If you ever have the time and feel the need to fix the template, I will be downloading it 

About that dormie that can't be married. Are there hacks involved? I've had the problem myself a while ago and I remember it was because of some outdated hacks.

I have some kind of problem. I don't know if it's because of me or not.
I started to play your hood and wanted to resurrect the Tricous from downtown. I used insim to do it. I got them resurrected, but when checking their memories, I noticed they all got memories of the other family members dying and getting an inheritance from little Beau Broke (I didn't play the Brokes before). I tried to remove those memoires using the lotdebugger but for some reason they stayed.
I've started over because I didn't really know what problems would come from it. I just thought you'd like to know.
Thanks for all the work you have done on this hood, you totally rock!

I'd love to contribute too, but I'm not from US or Canada too.
This is only a suggestion, but is it not possible to open up a paypal account where all of us who can't but want to contribute could send money too and this account could then be used to buy the store crap? I hope I'm making sense here, I think I just made a very weird sentence 

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to do this? I'm a maniac when it comes to my downloadfolder, and this seems to be the perfect solution for the headaches it gives me sometimes.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I guess I'm stuck then with playing two different games 

Is someone still working on them to make them compatible with TS2? I remember when it just came out everyone was going to give it a go, but I never heard of it again. I've tried a lot of times, and sadly it never worked  So I was just wondering if there are any people who got them to work, and are maybe willing to share them 

Because I'm a freak  Thanks for the reply Sara, I think I'll stop staring at the folder now 

I was wondering if this is possible? I've merged all hoods together, and I deleted all of the excess townies and other rubbish, but I don't like the fact that my characters files aren't numbered correctly anymore now. I'm a freak, I know, but can I change those numbers without screwing up my game? 

I *think* I have an AGP, but they guy from the computerstore told me there were 'converters' so I could use both Thanks for your advice

I was hoping someone here could tell me which one of these is best


MSI RX1650PRO-TD512 AGP Radeon 1650PRO, 512Mb DDR, TV-out, DVI, Retail

MSI RX1650PRO-TD256EZ, Passieve Koeling, PCI-EXPRESS Radeon RX1650PRO 256MB DDR2, TV-out, DVI, Crossfire ready, Retail

SAPPHIRE X1650PRO PCI-EXPRESS Radeon X1650PRO 256MB DDR3, TV-out, Double DVI, Crossfire ready, Retail


I planned on buying the second one, but the people from store I ordered it at are really working on my nerves, so I went to check out another store, and now I'm having second doubts again  It's only for playing TS2 btw

I didn't avoid any step, I just removed the two subhoods that were in the G001 folder

I finally figured out the problem and thought I'd put it here (although it's really stupid  ) Appearantly, it's the 'subhoods' into G001 that create the problem, once I threw them out, it showed up as a template 

I was wondering which option would be best for not having a corrupted hood too soon. I currently have a hood that has 6 subhoods attached to it. Is it best to let it stay that way, or should I better move all sims to the main hood and delete as many hoods as possible?

It was someone at MTS2 that said he/she was going to do it, but now that they've taken the objects down, I doubt that they will get the walls and floors online over there 

I took al those three steps (several times in fact  The last time I printed the whole tutorial out so I would be sure I did every single step but still nothing. As I said , it worked for me before Seasons, I had no trouble merging hoods using your method, but now I just can't get Riverblossom to show up as a template. I can't get any of the other hoods show up either 
Anyway, thanks for trying to help me 

Thanks In the meanwhile, I've tried again a couple of times, trying to use downtown templates and suburb templates (not together), but they still won't show up. When I choose to add another downtown or subhood, I just get the list where you can make a custom one using any terrain.

I've tried your tutorial before, and it worked like a charm, but now that I'm trying to add Riverblossom, it doesn't work as it's supposed to be. I've tried it several ways, I've tried to attach it as a suburb to my original (unplayed) merged hood, I've tried from scratch using Pleasantvieuw as main hood and tried it again using Riverblossom itself as main hood. I just can't change the default templates anymore.
Is something that might have been changed with adding Seasons? Or am I a complete idiot who forgets the same step over and over again?
Has anyone else tried it yet and got it to work?

I have a question for everyone that knows something of SC4. I just bought a copy of it because I wanted to make my own hood for all the Sims of PV,ST,VV and Bluewater Village. Now I was wondering if there's a way to place those terrains in SC4 and then combine them with a sort of ingame-feature?