alphac
15th Mar 2009, 03:52 PM
I've got a problem, and so far I have been unable to find a solution to it. So, I'm hoping someone here can give me a hand.
On Saturday, (which at the time of this posting was yesterday), I decided I wanted to play the Sims for I had not played in awhile. So I put my Apartment Life disk in and loaded the game. I played for a few hours with no problems and eventually quit. Later on that day, I started playing again, and once more quit with no problems. That night I loaded up the game once more, but never actually played. So I quit and shut down my computer for the night. Today, however, things have seemingly changed. I put the disk into the computer. When I clicked on the game icon, instead of starting the game, a message popped up saying to insert the disk. So I checked my computer only to see the disk had not been loaded. Now, this has happened to me before with other games, and the normal solution to this problem for me is the open the drive and close it. Then the disk gets read and the game loads and I can play. This time though, it didn't work. I removed the disk and cleaned it off following the tutorial that is on the Sims2wiki. No luck there though, the disk still wasn't recognized. I restarted my computer and tried to load the game again, but the computer still didn't recognize that the disk was in the drive. While I searched for an answer to this, the drive eventually recognized the disk, which is odd for it never takes as long as it did to recognize the disk. So I clicked on the icon and closed my computer, but then all the icons and my taskbar disappeared. After a few seconds, they all reappeared. The game however, did not start. Opened up the start menu and clicked on the icon there, the game launcher appeared and I clicked play. After a moment, a message showed up saying to insert the original Apartment Life disk. I kept trying some more, but every time the disk is recognized, I get this problem, and when its not recognized, the drive indicates that there is a CD-DVD in the drive, but thats it. It's just a generic CD-DVD picture instead of the Sims 2 Apartment Life one that normally shows up.
Also, I tried to loading other games and the computer recognized them just fine and I was able to play them. It's just Apartment Life my computer can't seem to recognize all of a sudden. I inserted AL into another computer and it was recognized. So this seems to just be some problem that arose overnight between my AL disk and my computers DVD-drive.
I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and I have all the Sims 2 expansion packs. As I stated before, the game worked perfectly yesterday, and today is does not. I didn't change anything in or on my computer since the last thing I used for last night, which was play the Sims. I can provide more information if needed. Much thanks to anyone who can help me.
On Saturday, (which at the time of this posting was yesterday), I decided I wanted to play the Sims for I had not played in awhile. So I put my Apartment Life disk in and loaded the game. I played for a few hours with no problems and eventually quit. Later on that day, I started playing again, and once more quit with no problems. That night I loaded up the game once more, but never actually played. So I quit and shut down my computer for the night. Today, however, things have seemingly changed. I put the disk into the computer. When I clicked on the game icon, instead of starting the game, a message popped up saying to insert the disk. So I checked my computer only to see the disk had not been loaded. Now, this has happened to me before with other games, and the normal solution to this problem for me is the open the drive and close it. Then the disk gets read and the game loads and I can play. This time though, it didn't work. I removed the disk and cleaned it off following the tutorial that is on the Sims2wiki. No luck there though, the disk still wasn't recognized. I restarted my computer and tried to load the game again, but the computer still didn't recognize that the disk was in the drive. While I searched for an answer to this, the drive eventually recognized the disk, which is odd for it never takes as long as it did to recognize the disk. So I clicked on the icon and closed my computer, but then all the icons and my taskbar disappeared. After a few seconds, they all reappeared. The game however, did not start. Opened up the start menu and clicked on the icon there, the game launcher appeared and I clicked play. After a moment, a message showed up saying to insert the original Apartment Life disk. I kept trying some more, but every time the disk is recognized, I get this problem, and when its not recognized, the drive indicates that there is a CD-DVD in the drive, but thats it. It's just a generic CD-DVD picture instead of the Sims 2 Apartment Life one that normally shows up.
Also, I tried to loading other games and the computer recognized them just fine and I was able to play them. It's just Apartment Life my computer can't seem to recognize all of a sudden. I inserted AL into another computer and it was recognized. So this seems to just be some problem that arose overnight between my AL disk and my computers DVD-drive.
I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and I have all the Sims 2 expansion packs. As I stated before, the game worked perfectly yesterday, and today is does not. I didn't change anything in or on my computer since the last thing I used for last night, which was play the Sims. I can provide more information if needed. Much thanks to anyone who can help me.