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Posted by: thunderchunky
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hey everyone, I got the game sims2 over last summer and tried to install it on my dads computer but it wouldnt let us because of direct x 9.0. Well we gave up on that(it was a pretty old computer) I installed it on my aunts computer after that and it worked but went really really really slow! she bought her dell about 2 and a half years ago. Then I tried it on my grandmothers comp and it worked pretty good but kept closing itself and her comp is about 5 years old so we gave up on that too and bought me a brand new dell of my own. I went to install it and it was just recently. so it installed 40% of the way and stopped to let me put in the second installation cd, so I did and it just completely stopped the instalation. The mini game was still working fine too. So I tried again and again and gave up and went to install the part of sims2 i had installed and it didnt let me. since then I started to have A LOT of problems with my computer. It got so bad that I had to restor my comp back to factory settings. I know most of my problems werent just from sims it was probably kazaa too. Well Now that my computer is restored and working i want to try to install sims2 again but im afraid itll mess it up again, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for me or tips, ANYTHING! please help I`m dying to play this game! thank you!!!
Posted by: redwench
check that both cds/dvds are in good condition before installing, and that windows is fully updated. other than that, give the error message you get if any.
Posted by: ncotton
Can you describe in more detail the error, is it just stopping? Erroring? Freezing? Or just not getting past a certain point. I asusme you are using Windows XP...have you installed Service Pack 2, and ran all the Windows Updates and Hotfixes with Windows Automatic Updates and the www.microsoft.com updates page?
Posted by: thunderchunky
I`m pretty sure I have all the updates, I could check to see but I need instructions on how to do it if you could help me with that. What it was doing was once I put in the first cd it would install that which was 40% of the install then it would ask for the second cd and i would put it in and the installation would just stop completely. the computer didn`t freeze or anything just the installation. Now I`m just wondering if that now that my comp is restored if I should try again or not and what to do if it messes my comp up again...
Posted by: chainlink
If you had Kazza and similar spyware infested crap on your machine I'm not suprised you had problems. If you've got rid of this with a re-format you should be OK to install Sims2, however I feel I must ask "What graphics card does your machine have?" as the answer to this may prevent further heartache.
Posted by: thunderchunky
I dont have kazaa anymore, I restored my comp back to factory settings and the comp works fine. I dont exactly know how to find the graphics card so....hehe help?!
Posted by: chainlink
You can go into device manager and have a look under display adapters or get Everest Home Edition and that'll tell you just about everything about your PC.
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