Sims 2 and Windows 7

[Callista]

Starting to think it's the neighborhood that's corrupt. It only happens in Veronaville. What made me miss it in the first place was that I had just installed my game to a new computer that came with Windows 7, and assumed that a newly-installed game could not have a corrupt neighborhood in it. I tried some lots in Strangetown and Pleasantview; they worked fine. Odd--i've never had issues with Veronaville before.

Oh, well, I'll just get rid of it. It's not like I actually play the Maxis-mades anyway (though it's kind of traditional to zombify Juliette on occasion).

[Alexandra]

I had been running TS2 and all expansions on Vista the memory hog and 2 GB of RAM.  Thankfully that computer somehow got fried and now I have a new computer with Windows 7, 2 GB of RAM.  I have all EPs and SPs and it works a lot BETTER.  I can up the performance on the graphics, do a faster refresh rate, and have nicer detail.

[Ambular]

I just got a new PC.  The technolergy is about three years old (Core 2 Duo), but it's got 4GB RAM and runs Windows 7 fine.  The Sims 2 with all expansions and several Stuff Packs, plus a couple gigs of CC, runs like a dream.  It all installed and runs without a hitch, much easier than TS3, which I find ironic, considering TS2 was designed to run on Windows 98 through XP (the system requirements on the Apartment Life case I own don't even mention Vista.)

I was told before installing that TS2 could have issues with the User Account Control feature in Vista and 7, and that this could be circumvented by installing the games to someplace other than the default location.  I can't say whether this was good advice, because the fellow who built the rig for me advised me to shut UAC off completely, as it would accomplish nothing for someone with my computing habits except to drive me insane.

[Alexandra]

In Vista and in 7, sometimes when I go to extract a zipped file to, say, Overrides (Inteen comes to mind here) it won't let me.  So--I just do a drag and drop, works fine.

[Jelenedra]

I just got a new PC.  The technolergy is about three years old (Core 2 Duo), but it's got 4GB RAM and runs Windows 7 fine.  The Sims 2 with all expansions and several Stuff Packs, plus a couple gigs of CC, runs like a dream.  It all installed and runs without a hitch, much easier than TS3, which I find ironic, considering TS2 was designed to run on Windows 98 through XP (the system requirements on the Apartment Life case I own don't even mention Vista.)

I was told before installing that TS2 could have issues with the User Account Control feature in Vista and 7, and that this could be circumvented by installing the games to someplace other than the default location.  I can't say whether this was good advice, because the fellow who built the rig for me advised me to shut UAC off completely, as it would accomplish nothing for someone with my computing habits except to drive me insane.

Where is this the option to turn this off? I needs it. I installed everything to the base directory and I've been afraid to muck around with it once I found out that was a Bad Idea.

[jezzer]

I just got a new PC.  The technolergy is about three years old (Core 2 Duo), but it's got 4GB RAM and runs Windows 7 fine.  The Sims 2 with all expansions and several Stuff Packs, plus a couple gigs of CC, runs like a dream.  It all installed and runs without a hitch, much easier than TS3, which I find ironic, considering TS2 was designed to run on Windows 98 through XP (the system requirements on the Apartment Life case I own don't even mention Vista.)

I was told before installing that TS2 could have issues with the User Account Control feature in Vista and 7, and that this could be circumvented by installing the games to someplace other than the default location.  I can't say whether this was good advice, because the fellow who built the rig for me advised me to shut UAC off completely, as it would accomplish nothing for someone with my computing habits except to drive me insane.

Where is this the option to turn this off? I needs it. I installed everything to the base directory and I've been afraid to muck around with it once I found out that was a Bad Idea.

Just do a quick "Help and Support" search for "User Account Control" and it'll link you right where you need to go to shut it off.


Also, Alexandra, we don't care.  Shut the fuck up, get the fuck out, and die in a fire.  "Love, Everyone"

[Cynarra]

Windows 7 will also save old corrupt stuff and uninstalled items in the Virtual Store folder unless you install the Sims 2 in it's own directory.

My problems were completely resolved with the game by direct installing into C:\EA Games and disabling the User Account Control.

[wizard_merlin]

I just got a new PC.  The technolergy is about three years old (Core 2 Duo), but it's got 4GB RAM and runs Windows 7 fine.  The Sims 2 with all expansions and several Stuff Packs, plus a couple gigs of CC, runs like a dream.  It all installed and runs without a hitch, much easier than TS3, which I find ironic, considering TS2 was designed to run on Windows 98 through XP (the system requirements on the Apartment Life case I own don't even mention Vista.)

I was told before installing that TS2 could have issues with the User Account Control feature in Vista and 7, and that this could be circumvented by installing the games to someplace other than the default location.  I can't say whether this was good advice, because the fellow who built the rig for me advised me to shut UAC off completely, as it would accomplish nothing for someone with my computing habits except to drive me insane.

Where is this the option to turn this off? I needs it. I installed everything to the base directory and I've been afraid to muck around with it once I found out that was a Bad Idea.

Just go into the control panel, then into user accounts.  From there you an turn off the UAC.

[Starpoo]

TS2 was designed to run on Windows 98 through XP (the system requirements on the Apartment Life case I own don't even mention Vista.)

Funny, because the Seasons' readme mentions Vista, as "not fully released" or something. But it mentions it nonetheless.