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• EvermoreRocks Posts: 83 Member

  January 2019

  EDIT: I got it to show up in game, but keeps crashing every time I try to load it! is it because I got windows 10? I don't have the ultimate collection because origin wouldn't give it to me.

  
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• ClassicalSim Posts: 1,535 Member

  January 2019

  Here's a thread with links that might help. Others with windows 10 have said it works. I have Win 8 instead of 10, but this worked for me too.
  
  https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/882846/installing-the-sims-2-on-windows-10/p1
  
  

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• Stormkeep Posts: 7,632 Member

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  Just reinstalled TS2 on Windows 10 myself last week and had similiar problems at first, @EvermoreRocks. I did get it to work properly after a day of google searching and trying various ideas of my own though, so keep at it!
  
  I have an nvidia card, which also has various other problems that I had to work out. But here are some things that ultimately ended up working for me (I have played for 6 hours non-stop without an issue since I did these things):
  

  • Getting the graphicsrules files set up correctly is the first step, for sure: https://www.simsnetwork.com/tools/graphics-rules-maker
  • Adding the correct Cpu count to the sims 2 executable. Whichever exe file that is used to launch the game, in windows go to properties and add this to the end of the Target where x is how many cpu cores you have: --CPUCount:x
  • For the above, I saw forum posts where people suggested using 1 regardless of actual CPUs...But I just used my actual number of cores.
  • If you want to run in windowed mode, also add -w the the command line for it.
  • Still in the properties for the sims program, under Compatibility, select "Change High DPI Settings" and at the bottom click to Override High DPI Scaling behaviour and select to have scaling performed by "System: Enhanced"
  • If you have the shadow issue where sim shadows look like blocks, download and install this mod: http://modthesims.info/d/569585/sim-shadow-fix-updated-2-jan-16.html

  
  Quite a few google searches also suggested setting the game to run in Vista SP 2 compatibility mode, but for me that made NO difference, so I am not running with any other compatibility settings besides the one I indicated. Ymmv; you may want to try the Vista SP2 setting and see if it helps you.
  
  Last thing I did, which may or may not have made a difference (I did it so the game looked better) was to get Reshade working with the game by following these instructions: https://www.moresims2tales.com/2018/getting-reshade-to-work-in-sims-2-uc/
  
  Good luck, I hope you have as much luck as I eventually did getting the game to work well. It sucked...it took hours...but I did get it.

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