I go through the game, loading it into my neighborhood.  Then whenever I try to load my families, the lights move across the screen, stop as if it's going to go to the house, then the hourglass turns over and over again, but it never loads.

I have seven hacks, none of which should conflict:
CBOY's hack
censor.package
InSIMenator (UV) v2.9 SIM Edition
PiratePollinationTech
Same Sex Marriage
SimsBaby_WitchNoOverlay_Bad
SimsBaby_WitchNoOverlay_Good

Some bodyshop and some build objects.  I have a lot more in my game on my other computer, and it takes a long while to load, but it does load.  I don't know why my game won't work.

I want to see more housing options.  One thing that drives me crazy about the Sims 2 is that you can't have different levels in a house.  Garages are sunken, but you can't connect them to a house with a foundation without cheats.  I use a lot of home plan books to create my houses and any of them that have garages have a ground-level garage and a house on a foundation.

Makin' Magic was my favorite of the lot.  I didn't even know there would be witches in Apartment Life until I loaded and looked at Belladonna Cove.  I have yet to turn any of my sims into witches, the name thing is off-putting.

Thank you so much.  My game now runs.

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but I'm having a really rough time with my Sims this past week.  I have all the games and stuff packs (excluding H+M Fashion and IKEA stuff) installed on my computer, but recently, my game's been acting up.

I put a desktop shortcut that runs the game in windowed mode, and it was working fine.  I also have a shortcut pinned to my Start Menu and in the All Programs, both of those are set to run the game in regular mode.  Unfortunately, lately, the game won't run.

I click on any of the shortcuts I have, try to run it from the CD, and even went into the TSBin to run the game.  The Play menu comes up, and I click on it.  My computer makes the noise that it's going to run, the icon turns to a CD that shows it's reading the CD to start, but it just stops.

The game screen never comes up, I check my processes, and the Sims isn't listed.  I removed all my hacks, but it didn't change anything.  The game simply won't run.  I have no idea why this is happening, but if anyone has any clue as to what I can do to make it work again, I'd vastly appreciate it.

Can you be more specific on where to find the meshes?  This outfit is awesome, but I can't find the meshes.

I used a couple of motherlodes, turned the house into a giant greenhouse with lots of sunlamps, and I've had no trouble at all.  I really love plant people.  Rose spored a second child, Oleander, and I'm thinking of having her spore a third.

Wow.  Don't fear the Reaper.  He's gorgeous!

Oh, wow!  That's amazing.  This is the best Buffy-sim I've seen.

Thank you so very much!  I was tired of killing them by old age.  It's more interesting when they die in different ways.  Gee, that sounds morbid, huh?

I like these.  They're interesting.  But I can't really read the last one on the first row.  What does it say?

Thank you for the mod.  It seems stupid that your pets count as Sims when you can't even make them do anything without cheat codes.

Ooh, it's Mr. Bigglesworth.  Now I might actually make my Austin Powers family.

I never forget a pussy...cat.