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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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模拟人生2De Sims 2Die Sims 2Les Sims 2Los Sims 2Os Sims 2TS 2

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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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  1. 0
    a problem has occurred when trying to transfer the file D:tsdatarescatalogbinsglobalcatbin.bundle.package from the media

    do you want to retry to copy the file or cancel the installation?

    when I press retry, the same error pops up… how do I continue the installation?

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    a problem has occurred when trying to transfer the file D:tsdatarescatalogbinsglobalcatbin.bundle.package from the media

    do you want to retry to retry to copy the file or cancel installation?

    when I hit retry, it gives me the same error. How do I continue the installation?

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    a problem has occurred when trying to transfer the file D:tsdatarescatalogbinsglobalcatbin.bundle.package from the media

    do you want to retry to copy the file or cancel installation?

    when I hit retry, it shows the same error again. how do I continue the installation?

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    ive followed the instructions but after launching Sims 2.exe as administrator, it gives me an error telling me that the sims 2 is not compatible with windows, and zooms in my screen into a tiny square in the middle, with tiny black bars on the left and right. is there any way to fix this?
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    Hey! Everything worked perfectly but when I ran the game it had buggy graphics (the contrast was high on the sims faces in the create a family screen and all the shadows were all dark black and there was glitch bars.) How do I fix this? I tried compatibility troubleshoot but it didn’t do anything. (I’m on a windows 10)
    Update: It doesn’t work now, when I click it, it gives me a cross error message.
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        Thank you sm for the help! The black shadows are fixed but the cheat didn’t fix the flashing blue boxes. I created a .cheat file ane added in this cheat (while also deleteing tumbnails and setting settings in game to medium). It’s still there :”/ I also tried Graphics Rules Maker and it said I needed Intel(R) Graphics family and when I clicked ok it said aborting project (I have NVDIA and tried downloading this but it said my system doesnt reach the minimum requirements.) I really really appreciate the help! I just really need to remove these flashing boxes.
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          OMG!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT IT ACTUALLY WORKED!!!! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP! I can finally play it without flickering now!!! I’m so happy 😆😆😆
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          Hello again I hope you’re well! Thank you so much for helping me out! Now I got a new weird problem unfortunately 😭 So the glitch started again but I fixed it (mostly) with graphics rules maker (there are only glitches when I zoom in and stuff and in build mode). Then I downloaded a mod (a lot from mod the sims) and made a new folder in the directory to put it in. Now the sound in game is really quiet! Like I don’t hear sound effects or much of my sims talking. Even the opening sounds strange. Is there a way to fix it or should I avoid mods altogether and should I do something about the minor glitches?? Tysm for all the help!!!
          Edit: Okay fixed the sound! It was my headphones!
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          glad you are fixing the sound problem yourself! in terms of the sims 2, you absolutely need mods, especially the one who prevent corruption 🙂 CC should be fine though.
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    i tried following instructions but after launching the sims 2.exe as administrator it made my screen zoomed in and tiny. had the restart my laptop, is there any fix?
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  7. 0
    Got the game up and running, everythings peachy except theres no sound and the sound options icon is grayed out and cannot be opened.
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    Failed to find any DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate.

    Trying to get the sims 2 to work but i keep getting this message anybody know how I can fix this , the one that comes with sims 2 isn’t compatible with windows 10

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

    How do I fix this issue and get it to work on windows 10

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

    Can someone help with this ? How can I get this to work ?

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  11. 0
    Hello i tried to fix the resolution but after i tried to save the changes to the graphics.rules.sgr it said i don’t have permission to change it
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    Vidéo letsplay sur les sims 2
    Sims 2 “Que deviennent mes anciennes familles”🤔
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    Vidéo de la chaine pour ceux qui aime les sims 2
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