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The Sims 2

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The Sims 2 is a 2004 simulation game developed by Maxis and published by EA Games.

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About The Sims 2

From the neighborhood view, the player selects one lot to play, as in The Sims. While there are both residential and community lots, Sims can only live in residential lots. Sims can travel to community lots in order to purchase things like clothing and magazines, and to interact with NPCs and townies. The player can choose between playing a pre-made inhabited lot, moving a household into an unoccupied pre-built lot, or constructing a building on an empty lot. One novelty from The Sims is foundations. The player switches among the Live mode (default) to control Sims, the Buy mode to add, move, or delete furniture, and the Build mode to rebuild the house and make structural changes. Although the Buy and Build modes cannot be accessed when on a community lot, the lots can be built on by using the neighborhood view. It is also possible to import neighborhood terrains from SimCity 4.

The game contains some time-bound social challenges that provide a reward if successful. Sims can throw parties to gain aspiration points or invite the headmaster over for dinner in order to enroll their children in private school. Some expansion packs have new mini-games like running a Greek house in University, or dating in Nightlife. In Nightlife, each date is a challenge to keep both Sims as happy as possible while accumulating aspiration points. Various other expansion packs introduce supernatural characters which Sims can be turned into, such as Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, PlantSims, and Witches.

The main part of the game is to lead a Sim from the start of life to death. A Sim will be born when a female Sim and a male Sim try for a baby several times. The mother will spend 3 Sim days (each day lasts 24 minutes though time can be sped-up) pregnant before giving birth to a baby. During Pregnancy, the belly does not expand gradually. Instead, every day, it pops to a bigger size. Players can name the new Sim upon birth. The baby's appearance and personality will be based on the genetics of its parents (though the baby's appearance is hidden until it becomes a toddler). Babies can also be adopted by calling adoption service on the phone, even by single parents, old age sims or same-gender couples. The baby will change into a toddler in 3 days, and 4 more days for the toddler to change into a child. After 8 days, the child grows into a teenager, and will live 15 days before changing into an adult. After 29 days, the Sim will become an elder. An elder will eventually die; the length of this final stage depends on the aspiration bar when they become an elder.

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    • 0
      I had the same error. I’m on Windows 10 and I solved it by going to the mounted file, entering the ‘Crack’ folder, and right clicked on Sims2 (the application file) and selected ‘Run as Administrator’.

      The steps are: This PC (folder) > DVD Drive (E:) Sims2 > Crack (folder) > “Sims2” (application, right click + select ‘Run as Administrator’)

      One thing to note is that I didn’t manage to find the TSBin file nor replaced all the files as mentioned in Step 5. What I did was I pasted the “Sims2.exe” into:
      Documents (folder) > EA Games (folder) > The Sims 2 (folder)
      When I tried to launch the game here, it did not succeed. So, remember to launch from the mounted file 🙂

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      Already fixed it. Running as an administrator didn’t work for me, so I installed Daemon Tools, selected TS2 folder and ran the game with a simulated disk. It worked with no further errors :))
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    Hello, can anyone help me? I have installed it and even moved the crack file in the TSbin of the new location but it is showing that an unspecified error has occurred. What to do?
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    Hello, can anyone help me? I have installed it and I even moved the crack file in my TSbin but it is showing that an unspecified error has occurred. What to do?
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      I had the same error. I’m on Windows 10 and I solved it by going to the mounted file, entering the ‘Crack’ folder, and right clicked on Sims2 (the application file) and selected ‘Run as Administrator’.

      The steps are: This PC (folder) > DVD Drive (E:) Sims2 > Crack (folder) > “Sims2” (application, right click + select ‘Run as Administrator’)

      One thing to note is that I didn’t manage to find the TSBin file nor replaced all the files as mentioned in Step 5. What I did was I pasted the “Sims2.exe” into:
      Documents (folder) > EA Games (folder) > The Sims 2 (folder)
      When I tried to launch the game here, it did not succeed. So, remember to launch from the mounted file.

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        Already fixed it. Running as an administrator didn’t work, so I installed Daemon Tools, selected TS2 folder and ran the game with a simulated disk. It worked with no further errors :))
        Reply
  3. 0
    I have the following message :
    Faied to find any diretX9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Pleas emake sure you have DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters and hav einstalles the lastst drivers provided by th emanufacturer.

    I can’t download direct 9.0 because it’s only for Windows 98 and XP

    Have any suggestion ?

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    to anyone who is struggling about “dvd rom”, make sure there is new part below “local disk (d:) or (e:)”. this new part have the sims icon.
    then when you find out that there such thing, then click right on the iso file or the zip file called the sims 2, and click open with window explorer. then the new part will appear below the local disk. then try open the game again. remember select run as administrator when you want to play the game.
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    hey, i followed all the instructions but when I went to the NoCD folder there’s no “sims2.exe” and its only the sims2 icon
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  6. 0
    Guys, I just found out how to solve the problem with “There is not enough room on Sims2. You need an additional 15.0 MB to copy these files.”. All you need to do is just copy all the files on the DVD Drive and paste them into the New Volume in your PC, and copy the file on Crack to the TSbin file and everything works well, I can finally play the game!! However there is some issue while playing the game like the square black shadow under your sim character, maybe anyone know how to fix it?? Thank you!
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