Forum: The Sims 2 Troubleshooting and Problems

Hi all. I am one VERY frustrated person. I live thru my sims and now I can't get the rotten thing to start up! I am running XP and have installed The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business and Family Fun Stuff. One minute I was able to play the game and then I looked for some new...

I keep trying to copy my Sims game to a remote device (my CD's aren't big enough). I'm doing this for safety sake as well as I do it when I'm adding an expansion pack. Myt current game Consists of Sims 2 Holiday Edition, Sims 2 Seasons, Sims 2 Freetime and Sims 2 Mansions and Gardens). Trouble is...

I. Need. HELP! :mad: This has been going on for a month now, I thought it was a glitch that would all just blower over but i was wrong... :confused: Okay, so, let's say i turn on my sims game, Open up a lot... What? It leaves me on buy and build mode and disables live mode. Basically, the live...

I have installed all the expansions up to Seasons. For quite some time I haven't been able to use the social option to sell to other sims, or assess. I would like a fix to that, but the main issue is that I'm stuck in 3x speed mode. If I click any other besides pause, it always slides back...

ok so when i go to a family to play it will load normally for maybe 10-20 seconds and then it will keep loading, and loading, and loading, untill i have to force shut down! PLEASE HELP ME BECAUSE THIs ALL HAPPENED WHEN I INSTALLED A NEW GAME AND NOW I CAN PLAY...

i bought the sims 2 deluxe and open for business and installed them on my pc and they works great . i love them so much i went and got pets, glamour life, and bon vogage .. but when i installed all them on my pc i went to start playing it and the ground was flashing pink and the walls were flashing...

Hi there, my name is susan and I am a sim2 lover and avid player which brings me to my issue. I had computer problems with my game, when I entered my lot the flies of death came and then my game froze. I took everything off and have tried to download my games again but after zi enter the serial...

Okay, so I JUST installed this again. I had it a few months ago and got rid of it because after a year or so of having it installed it stopped working correctly. Now it'll come up to the Sims 2 small box (the one that doesn't' fill the screen) and the tab will come up on the bottom, but not all...

This doesn't inhibit my ability to play the game, but good god, does it suck the fun out of playing it. This does not only happen to my Sims 2, but also to my Sims 3, so it's really frustrating to not have a fallback. I just posted it here, because I care more about the Sims 2 and this is where the...

They were sleeping with the zzzzz's, the toddler woke up but his needs weren't great so I let them sleep a little, when I looked again, the z's were gone, their energy was all the way up but they wouldn't wake when I clicked off the bed in the upper left corner. I tried clicking on the bed and it...

Hi there My sims got in the hot tub together and they have frozen in a hugging postion....everything else is working, everyone around is moving, cleaner is coming, car poole is coming, messages are coming, and thye are full red on energy and food but still frozen after three days :( What do I...

(Sorry, I posted this in the wrong place by accident the first time somehow.) My problem: I had to uninstall Sims 2 Holiday Edition (my neice gave me it when she got Sims 3), plus Sims2 Season and Sims2 Best of Business because suddenly my Pleasantville neighborhood disappeared along with all...

Hi, when I click on my sim, the actions for them in the little blue bubbles will come up but then they go away too quickly for me to click anything.

I uninstalled the Sims 2 from my computer to reset the game and start fresh, now when I install it, including the patch for Windows Vista the ctrl + shift + c command will not work. The rest of the game runs perfectly, my system requirements are adequate and I have been running the game for several...

heyy im having a problem with my "the sims 2" (PC DVD Rom) When i insert the disk it just wont load up and therefore i cannot install it. I've tried other game cd's they work perfectly fine. My Laptop Info: CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz CPU Speed You Have: 1.73...

I've had the Sims 2 and other EPs installed and reinstalled on my laptop a lot of times before, and this time I wanted to reinstall them for Christmas so I can kill some time. And after I did all the work, even played a bit, something happened : most of the time when I open it, the screen should go...

My Sims 2 won't let me load my families. sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and i keep logging off and restarting my computer but it still doesn't work! What can i do!?!?! Help!! Reply with a solution as fast as you can.

Computer Specs: CPU- Pentum 4, 2.40 GHz RAM- 256 MB Free Hard Disk Space- 56.4 GB Total Hard Disk Space- 74.4 GB Graphic/Video Card- NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X Graphic/Video Card Driver Version- 5.6.7.3 DirectX Version- I don't know. How do I find this? Windows XP SP3 Sims 2 CD...

I recently decided to re install the sims 2. I have windows vista, and am having constant problems with the game. After 2 minutes in, my computer will start making a beeping noise and the screen will start glitching. After about a minute of going through this, my screen will eventually go black,...