Sims2 on Windows 7?

[Actron]

Am looking at buying a new machine in the near future, now a lot are offering bundles including Windows 7, now I know it blows Vista out of the water (am on XP here and really dislike Vista). The question is will the game and expansion packs run ok on Windows 7?

[Stelio Kontos]

The only way to truly know the answer to this question is to wait until Windows 7 actually comes out.
Theoretically, the Sims 2 will work on it. (Key word is theoretically, there could possibly be compatibility issues that can, will, and should be resolved.)

[satan]

word. you never know. i remember assuming that sims 1 would work on vista and being sorely disappointed when i had to run it in administrater mode and having to suffer through crash after crash. luckily sims 2 worked fine once i got my discs back, but that made me very angry at the time. of course, that was during the very early days of vista. with windows 7 who knows? i will say this vista eventually got over most of its issues, so even if windows 7 has issues at first they'll probably fix it eventually. the only question would be when.

[saowens]

You could always set up a dual boot machine with XP and Windows 7. That way if it doesn't work on 7 you would still be able to play it on Windows XP

[Chaavik]

AncientHighway discussed Sims 2 and Windows 7 in this thread at Simbology. He said that Sims 2 works very nicely on Windows 7 as well as the EPs he installed one at a time. SimPE ran on Windows 7 as well.

I don't think you have to register to view the thread, but I could be wrong because I am a member there and went to grab the link to that thread about Sims 2 and Windows 7.

[caffeinated.joy]

You need to be a member to view it

[HappyThoughts]

Now I'm not a computer tech by any standard, BUT , I do know that Windows 7 professional comes with an xp mode.  Meaning any xp formats can be ran on it.  Its a nice little feature, that isn't that much more expensive.  (atleast not where we found it)  We (my husband and I) are waiting on 2 new pc's as I speak, after 7yrs it was time for an update.  So anyone concerned about installing any sims 2 game or older pc games might want to look into the Windows 7 professional package, just incase *like Vista, you find a few issues.  If I'm incorrect in this please let me know, I'm quoting my husbands research on this.

cheers