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Title: Vista and Seasons Post by: SolidGoldFunk on November 03, 2007, 03:58:04 pm Sorry I keep having all these issues but I need help once again.
I have a laptop with Vista on it and I installed The Sims 2 Seasons and it won't open. I was just wondering if it could be an incompatibility problem. Also, my graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M. Any help would be greatly appreciated:D Title: Vista and Seasons Post by: BeosBoxBoy on November 03, 2007, 07:50:05 pm SGF - did you install the game as the administrator? If not, un-install and repeat the install as the administrator.
Title: Vista and Seasons Post by: SolidGoldFunk on November 03, 2007, 07:54:17 pm I believe I did. I didn't set up any accounts yet on this computer so I just assumed I was the administrator. Let me check it out...
Thanks once again! Title: Vista and Seasons Post by: BeosBoxBoy on November 03, 2007, 08:11:30 pm You may also need to use a compatability mode - not precisely sure which one you might need here. Some people have mentioned it requires you to specify that programme run as administrator, I think that sounds a little draconian, but it may do the trick.
I know TS2 is not Unicode, so there are potential problems there. Here is the English help for changing compatability: Microsoft Windows Vista Help: Changing Programme Comaptability (http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/bf416877-c83f-4476-a3da-8ec98dcf5f101033.mspx) In German: Windows-Hilfe und -Anleitungen: Ausführen von älteren Programmen in dieser Version von Windows (http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/de-DE/help/bf416877-c83f-4476-a3da-8ec98dcf5f101031.mspx) Title: Vista and Seasons Post by: SolidGoldFunk on November 04, 2007, 09:42:17 am I tried changing the compatibility mode and it doesn't work. I found that the game will work when I open the cd drive and then close it again. I'm not sure if this is how it should be but it works for me.
Thanks Beosboxboy:) Title: Vista and Seasons Post by: BeosBoxBoy on November 04, 2007, 10:28:48 am blarg - I am hearing that more and more. It sounds to me like the SecuROM copyright protection is somehow interfering with the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM functions. I am glad you solved the problem SolidGoldFunk, but this sort of solution seems to me like my grandfather's saying when something didn't work: "you must not have been posing your lips right"
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