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19th Jun 2022 at 6:05 AM
Posts: 248
This user has the following games installed:
Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life
windows defender is doing all kinds of weird things
I am trying to install sims 2 and all its expansions. I'm on win 10 pro 64bit with 8gb of ramI read somewhere on other site, you had you had to switch compatibility to win xp sp2. i tryed without it and my install would stop at 23 % while on the first cd still. anyway with switching to to xp compatibility. I was able to install all 4 cds of the first game, and also patch it. I did the same with University. I was even to run the game to test to see if everything was running good. I installed more expansions. At Pets I decided to test again. One problem was once i was in the game it would tell me university wasn't install. That is odd I thought. It made no sense. why would it be gone. The files and folders are still there.
Anyway I continued installing the next few expansions. At FreeTime, windows security would not allow me to run autorun.exe. I tryed disable what ever I could, it would not allow me to do anything. I ended up login in administrator and installed it there. I ran the game and it loaded ok. but it didn't detect the other expansions. Most likely because I am not under my usual username.
Is is ok to copy all my whole C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\EA Games folder to my regular user folder C:\Users\..myname...\Documents\EA Games,? or would it make it worst? I feel I am ready to cry. I am tired. It's been a long day.
I feel I should try to install windows 7 on another partition. the game ran fine on there years ago. Not really impressed with Win10 so far. I'm still new to it.
I don't know If I should go back to my own user account and try to install Apartment life next. Maybe I'll wait till tomorrow.
I feel I need a cold one right now. before I get insane. Oh wait, I'm already there.
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19th Jun 2022 at 11:41 AM
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Is is ok to copy all my whole C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\EA Games folder to my regular user folder C:\Users\..myname...\Documents\EA Games,? |
Also, for future reference, if you encounter compatibility issues when installing expansion pack 0, then do keep the compatibility settings consistent while installing all the EPs 0 through n. Don't assume it will magically fix itself and work under Win10 environment after some random EP - Windows is as dumb as it gets, and does not learn.
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I don't know If I should go back to my own user account and try to install Apartment life next. |
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