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Title: Trouble Installing The Sims 2 on Vista Home Premium 64-bit Post by: ryskia on December 21, 2008, 02:21:04 pm Okay, I just received a new laptop and tried installing The Sims on it. It's a Vista Home Premium 64-bit, and I've heard that there are problems installing games on Vista 64-bit (but I was pretty sure they released updates to fix or lessen the problem).
Anyways, I'm using the same discs I had used to install The Sims 2 on my Windows XP, but for some reason it doesn't appear to be installing properly. I couldn't find the EA Games folder in "My Documents" until AFTER I uninstalled the game, and now every time I try to update the game with any of the patches while installing it'll have this message saying there was an error and completely uninstalls. I seriously spent a whole day (11 AM- 5 AM) trying to install this game into my computer. I even reformatted it because I thought it might be a problem with SecuROM. So, if anyone has the Vista Home Premium 64-bit OS, can you please tell me how did you install it? Did you install it using the default/basic settings or did you install using the "Advanced User" option and put it in My Documents or something? (I have installed The Sims 2 using Advanced User on my XP, so that I could put the game on an external hard drive and I never had a problem up until now!) Some info on my laptop: Inter Core 2 duo processor 4 GB RAM 250 GB Hard drive (191GB available) Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Title: Re: Trouble Installing The Sims 2 on Vista Home Premium 64-bit Post by: rwills on December 21, 2008, 06:12:57 pm To install on a Vista machine, you must be using either the administrator account or an account with admin privileges enabled.
Scroll down to 'Other Topics' here for a bit more info: http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=281 Also, as it is a duo core machine, take a look here about the possibility of altering the affinity settings in case you have other problems: http://modthesims2.com/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Dual_Core_Issues Also, you didn't mention what graphics card/chipset is installed on the machine. It may not be readily capable of handling the game (or may not be readily capable of handling more than the basic game). Even so, installing any newer or updated drivers for you machine's graphics card is is Good Thing. Title: Re: Trouble Installing The Sims 2 on Vista Home Premium 64-bit Post by: ryskia on December 21, 2008, 07:07:55 pm I was able to successfully install it today-- I don't know what happened haha. Thank you!
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