The Sims: Complete Collection

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   Hi! Has anyone else encountered this issue when running Sims 1? The game starts with a huge chunk of the game outside the monitor, and there’s no easy way of bringing it back to the screen. This goes for both resolutions, and the fastpatcher does not fix it (on the contrary it causes a fatal crash after launch).
   Running on Windows 11 Virtual machine for M1 Max. I am running both launcher and game in compatibility mode for XP SP 2 with administrator privileges.
   https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0f02745b6db70048449c960405e9e928ef81cbc00657e31a8f98daf05275b9d.png

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   My computer keeps saying it cannot find the game directory

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   I’m just going to post this because it caught me up, the garbage font can make the “GSLX” in the serial code look like “G9LX”

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   When I try to drop the Crack file to the sims folder a window pops up and says, “Windows cannot create a shortcut here. Would you like to create a shortcut to the desktop instead?” how do I override this?

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     I figured out, Hold down shift and try dropping it again

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       Omg thank you!!! That was driving me crazy!

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   When I select Setup.exe or Start.exe a pop up window says, “An installation support file could not be installed. Catastrophic Failure.”

   What do I do?

   I had the game installed previously, but while downloading custom content I accidently deleted the Game Data folder and the game wouldn’t work. To remedy this I’m trying to re-installing the game but I keep running into this error. Please help I love this game and I’m super bummed

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     Found Solution:

     https://madraynesims.tumblr.com/post/650805287144554496/how-to-fix-catastrophic-failure-when-install

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   Serial numbers aren’t working.

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     the font makes some of the text weird, try either of these 2:
     EQMV-73XB-F8J4-GSLX-4M67
     GQ5M-8NUG-L4MG-Z7SD-4XU5

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   good game

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   Hello! I finally got the program to run correctly! Smooth sailing. However, it will not play music from build/buy mode nor from the stereos. Any idea why? Music plays at intro load screen and TV.

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   hi, I had no problems downloading and installing although I was wondering if there is a way to make the graphics better! I am using windows 10

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     You can go to settings, graphics settings, and turn everything to the highest, other than that, nothing else can be made better because the game can only look like that.

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    Im having issues with downloading. I cant do the sims crack step as its saying it can’t locate the directory. :/ ive done all the steps up to that point :/ any advice on how to fix it?

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      Same.

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      btw it’s not the same directory for everyone you just have to search for the games file in your disk and copy the crack file content and paste it in the game directory

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    The Start.exe doesn’t do anything, I’m running as administrator but its not running anything after requesting permission to run

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      i have this problem too. start.exe does absolutely nothing. tried in all compatibility modes, it does NOTHING and this is the third comment i’ve seen of this nature why hasn’t it been addressed? why isn’t it working??

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        You are meant to open the setup.exe in the setup folder

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      You are meant to open the setup.exe in the Setup folder instead

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    “Setup is having trouble Auto play is shutting down please restart your pc” I’m using windows 10 how can I fix this?

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      I had this and restarted my pc, worked after

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    i cant download the game because it wants me to type in a number thats found on the back of the game manual, how do i fix this?

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      look at step 3

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      It’s literally in the instructions on this exact page. Type in that code that it gives you and there you go. If that doesn’t work, legit just search “The Sims 1 complete collection code” and try anything that pops up. It’s like the easiest thing in the world.

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    is there a way i can download this on a usb drive? because im running low on storage .If not ill just clear space just wanting to know! 🙂

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      you find a way?

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      You could try and clear space, install the game on the computer, then move the installed game folder onto the usb drive, then put everything back. If you wanted to.

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    I’m having an issue at setup where it says “Unknown error detected. aborting setup” I tried to change the Compatibility like the instructions said but it’s still not working

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