Sims 2 Apartment Life Issue
Amberyl:
Okay thanks...but what might have caused that, any ideas? (looking forward to reinstalling all sims....NOT) :)
Zooey:
Maybe rebooting? It happened to me once (with half-completed Assassin's Creed DAMMIT) and I had to reinstall it. Well, not the same problem, only that it wouldn't work anymore. Sometimes, things can reset, not especially because of rebooting, but computers are dumb. That's why it's called *artificial* intelligence.
caffeinated.joy:
When you run the repair utility, you always run the risk of having to reinstall certain programs, because the act of repairing your OS will sometimes break certain program files.
Now, after looking into this, I've read this is one of the problems that can come with Securom (though I've never had any problems with it personally) and it looks like you might be of the lucky few. What could be happening, is, Securom is detecting some form of emulation software. It can be something as simple as a legitimate CD/DVD burning program, such as Nero. Oddly enough, many people who have experienced this problem did not install their game in order of release, which is as follows. Either way, it looks like a reinstall might be in order.
Sims 2
University
Night Life
(Holiday Party Pack)
Open For Business
(Family Fun Stuff)
(Glamor Life Stuff)
Pets
(Happy Holiday Stuff)
Seasons
(Celebrations Stuff)
(H&M Stuff Pack)
Bon Voyage
(Teen Stuff)
Free Time
(Kitchen & Bath Stuff)
(Ikea Stuff)
Apartment Life
(Mansions & Gardens)
The stuff packs are in brackets because I'm not certain the install order matters, but I install them in order anyway, because the game recognizes at least two of them as EPs, meaning you have to use the disk to run the game if these SPs are the last thing you installed (FFS and M&G). When you install, make sure you patch after each install. (Sims 2, then patch, Uni, then patch, NL, then patch and so on).
Zooey:
Quote from: caffeinated.joy on October 19, 2010, 01:37:50 pm
When you run the repair utility, you always run the risk of having to reinstall certain programs, because the act of repairing your OS will sometimes break certain program files.
Now, after looking into this, I've read this is one of the problems that can come with Securom (though I've never had any problems with it personally) and it looks like you might be of the lucky few. What could be happening, is, Securom is detecting some form of emulation software. It can be something as simple as a legitimate CD/DVD burning program, such as Nero. Oddly enough, many people who have experienced this problem did not install their game in order of release, which is as follows. Either way, it looks like a reinstall might be in order.
Among my oh-so-many games, I have a lot of them going with Securom, and neither did I have any problems with it.
I didn't install them in the order of release, but in the order I bought them. Thank GOD I don't have this problem, hell, my downloads folder is over 1 GB, and losing all that CC is a big NO!
Amberyl:
I appreciate the help and I plan to reinstall all of them again.
The strange thing is this computer doesn't have a dvd/cd writer on it so it doesn't have any Nero or anything on it...
Let you know what happens....
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