Although The Sims 2 came out nearly 15 years ago, it still has a dedicated fanbase that insist that it’s the best game in the series. These diehards say that Sims 2 is more alive than its antecedents, and that as long as it continues to run on their computers, they’ll continue to play it.
https://kotaku.com/15-years-later-the-sims-2-still-has-its-diehard-fans-1834335634/amp?__twitter_impression=true
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It will be a sad day when I can no longer play Sims 2, even if you can get your PC to play the game smoothly which not every body can EA and Origin are trying to faze it out... But they will have to kill me before they get my copy and if that day comes my ghost will play the game on his Mac.
It’s not just nostalgia for me, it’s honestly the best made in the sims series... I’m having a ball playing it and getting new custom content/default replacements for it.
I feel like 3 had some good ideas, but the implementation was lacking.
Yea, there is no attempt at making the games look realistic at all. I do genuinely wonder why that is. Like whether it's to separate the graphics from potentially similar competitors. Did they feel it would make the ridiculous gameplay feel out of place? Is it about performance?
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For TS2 it might need some tweaks, and mods but it's possible to get it up and running on Windows 10.
Wow that would be amazing if my game could load that fast... mine is about the 10 minutes you mentioned (On a nearly 12 year old PC). Loading other lots after opening the game takes maybe a few minutes though.
Bypass the launcher. It causes lag.
It's probably a long shot but is there a way to get Sims 4 mouse controls in Sims 2? Like left click + drag to move the camera and right click + move the mouse left or right to rotate the camera? If not then like I said above, I'll have to get used to Sims 3 style controls.
How do you bypass the launcher?? Mine takes a while to pop up too.
@simskeleton
What disc do you use to launch the game?
@simskeleton
What disc do you use to launch the game?[/quote]
Mansion and garden stuff.
Is there also a way to automatically skip the intro video without waiting for it to start then pressing a button on the keyboard to skip it?
@simskeleton
What disc do you use to launch the game?[/quote]
Mansion and garden stuff.
Is there also a way to automatically skip the intro video without waiting for it to start then pressing a button on the keyboard to skip it?[/quote]
Try this, I haven't had to deal with the launcher in years, and to skip the intro I think I have that mod in the game starter folder (have to find a link how to do that as I haven't had to do this in years since this is how my game has been setup for years). You would click properties of EP9 (Mansion and Garden)
http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Bypassing_Launcher