Resolved: Installation Order for Expansion Packs
Chairman Greg:
In preparation for finally biting the bullet and installing all the stuff up to (but not including) Pets, I wrote a tutorial topic of the installation order at the Hullabaloo.
I don't want to post it here, too, because I don't want to try to maintain in two places. If you click the link, the Insim BBS should pop a new window with the Hullabaloo topic. You don't need to create a Hullabaloo ID unless you want to post a note there.
Now, here are the big questions:
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[*]Do I have to install the patches as I go? (Are they included in later expansion packs? Can I install them all at once at the end?)
[*]Are any of these things (besides Pests) so horribly buggy that I don't want to install them at all?
[*]Do I need to have my existing neighborhoods in place when I install later expansion packs? (Right now I have just the base game + University, and a tremendous investment of my life in the neighborhoods I already have.)[/LIST]Thanks for your help! :smile:
Sleepycat:
after looking at your tutorial - if you don't have Pets then you don't need to install the Pets Bodyshop Patch...
a. I did when I recently reinstalled the game and EPs + SPs
b. they all have bugs but the patchs fix a lot of them (Pets isn't that buggy) - you can get fixes for a lot of the unfixed EP bugs at MATY
c. word is that you don't but I always leave my neighborhoods in when I install a new EP/SP (always backup your hoods first!)
ancienthighway:
In actuality, it makes no difference as to the order EPs and SPs are installed. I'm pretty sure I saw a post by a Maxoid some time ago that stated this.
As for your questions
1. Patch as you go. I believe if you don't the installation process may prompt for patches needed but not installed, but why take a chance.
2. I agree with Sleepycat that Pets wasn't as buggy as everyone made it out to be. The two biggest bugs are Pets was based on the unpatched OFB engine and Bodyshop. There is a patch available for Pets Bodyshop.
3. After making a backup of my game, I've always left my neighborhoods and CC other than mods/hacks in the game when installing.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Always remove downloads that you want to keep before uninstalling. The process of uninstalling will delete without prompt everything in The Sims 2 folder.
Chairman Greg:
Thanks, Sleepycat!
So, an important part of the preparations is to make sure you have all the patches ready. And all the fan-created hacks.
I'm thinking that if I don't need to have the Neighborhoods in place, it would be easy to make a backup by simply renaming my The Sims 2 folder and then installing from scratch. But just in case, maybe I'd better haven't them there and just start from where I am.
So I'll just need to do steps 5 through 11 in my tutorial. Then come the hacks; hundreds of 'em.
I tend to install hacks and fixes by Squinge, TwoJeffs, and JM Pescado, in that order of preference. Updating those things is gonna be quite a chore!
Sleepycat:
your welcome :)
the easiest way to update JM Pescados is to download his directors cut and then delete the hacks you don't plan to use. most of his RTFMs are available in a zip, thanks to Venusy http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,6109.0.html
IMO his are the most important since he mostly does game bug fixes.
Twojeffs is working on his new directorys (and directors cut) that will make downloading his easier
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7158.0.html
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