Nightlife Nightmare

[dizzy]

Hehe. Macrovision. More annoying for the honest customer and less capable of stopping software piracy than any other method.

[Azkar]

Good lord .. they expect the average user to follow all that?

I hate how their first answer is always to tell people to shut down all open processes.  You shouldn't go shutting down processes in task manager, willy nilly, unless you actually know what they are and whether it's safe to do so.  And telling people to shut down their virus scanners and fire walls is just dangerous.

[J. M. Pescado]

And they want you to install spyware on your computer, too. Like hell I'm installing some Macrovision piece of shit.

[humybyrd]

It took me three days to install the new ep. After so many failed attempts I just uninstalled the whole thing, deleted the registry entry and reinstalled without any of my custom content or neighborhoods until I got uni done. Before putting NL on I put my neighborhoods and downloads back in, minus the hacks. THEN nl would install.  First time I ever had so much trouble with a game installation.

[laeshanin]

Jeez, ZiggyDoodle, that's just bloody stupid! I concur with Azkar. Why do anything simply at all? Why not just follow the complete lunacy?

Thanks Bluecatvon, I'll give it a try.

[bluecatvon]

it's only a guess, cuz i always see my friends do that. please report if it works

[Vesca]

It took me 4 tries to install NL.  The first time, stopped at 51%.  The second time, got all the way through, stopped at "please wait".  The third time, stopped at 51%.  The fourth time, I put the cds in my other drive and it took.

Wish I had thought to use both drives, too.  I was at it for 2 hours.

I got a complete and, what I thought was, a normal install the first time around but when I played (completely hackless) for about an hour, I realized it wasn't playing properly (missing animations, missing sound, etc.).  So, I had to uninstall the entire game and reinstall it and it's worked fine since.

[kewian]

Nice to have found this oasis of information; a refreshing contrast to the inanity of the Sims BBS.

Against my better judgment I purchased Nightlife; thought I'd wait for the Uni patch first, but my curiosity got the better of me. 

Am running a Dell Dimension 8400 with 1GB Ram, Pentium 4 processor (3.2GHz), 80 GB HD (half empty) 128MB ATI Radeon PCI Express X300SE video card, and Windoze XP Home Edition.   No hacks, no downloaded custom content. HD is defragged and the firewall, a.v. software, and backround tasks are turned off during my attempts to install.

That said, Nightlife won't install.  Disk #1 runs fine, then when I remove the first disk and insert disk #2 in the CD/DVD-ROM drive, nothing happens.  The last file shown on the installation window is TsData/control/control.dat   At 51% of the install, it stops.  Have waited for as long as 30 minutes for it to do something before cancelling the installation.

Since TS2 and Uni EP installed and run just fine, I exchanged the disks thinking they were defective.  Same issue with the second set.  Cleaned the disks to make sure they were spotless.  No luck.

Am I being impatient?  Does it take several hours for this EP to install?  Or do I have lousy luck and got another set of defective disks?

Thanks

I had this happen to me  check your game file (my documents) if you removed it you will need to put it back in but  and this is a big one REMOVE the http cache, collections, movies,saved sims,teleport,downloads and neighborhoods and save them on your desktop.(the reason for this is to save your game progress and you can put them back after installation) and try and see if it finishes installation. I had removed my ea games folder and it wouldnt finish installation because the folder wasnt there.

[laeshanin]

Well, I bit the bullet and purchased a copy of NL. It came whilst I was away in London so yesterday I unwrapped the shiny little beggar - after carefully removing the downloads folder - and installed. Voila! Not a single hitch. It ran beautifully, and all my sims, houses and what nots... still there. Too damn good, I thought, so put back in the downloads san hacks. Still running well and without a hitch. Now all I gotta do is check all my hacks against a definitive list and place them carefully back. Which is dull. Dull, tedious and dull...

The only issue I do seem to have is that the game seems to be really blurry. So much so that the sims in play don't look like they have hands but clubs. Nothing is sharply defined, and I've checked all my drivers (upto date), so I'm at a bit of a loss.

[Renatus]

laeshanin, make sure you've set your video options back up to where they were. Nightlife usually resets them allllll the way down to the lowest quality.

[laeshanin]

Nope, because this spanner hadn't thought of that. Duh.  Thanks.