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Worked amazing for me!
Thanks in advance
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Other-The-Sims-Games/the-sims-2-direct-x-9-0c/td-p/3204989
I tried it and it fixed my game, so hopefully it can help you.
Try to put your the sims on the windowed mode! “The only thing you have to do is add a -w at the end of your normal shortcut.
Right-click on the game icon and select properties.
* At the very end of the Target path (after the “), put in a space then -w and click OK.
It worked for me 🙂