Disable Expansions

[Faye Strawberry]

Does anyone have a clever solution to disable expansion packs? I really appreciate the launcher for The Sims 3 that lets me choose a subset of my expansion packs instead of having everything running every time I play. Any geniuses out there who can help me?

[Faye Strawberry]

Originally posted by Strawberry:

Sims 3 also had that as a option because EA did not optimize it properly so told people to disable packs to help performance.

Haha, I didn't realise that was why! For me, mixing up which packs I use keeps it feeling fresh and I like being able to *not* have certain features sometimes. (Or ever, in the case of supernatural and magical packs - never got into those.)

[Bed Of Chaos]

There's a launcher by LazyDuchess but Idk if it works with Legacy Collection.

[Faye Strawberry]

Originally posted by Bed Of Chaos:

There's a launcher by LazyDuchess but Idk if it works with Legacy Collection.

Ooh, thank you for letting me know! I'll investigate ^_^

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by Faye Strawberry:

Originally posted by Bed Of Chaos:

There's a launcher by LazyDuchess but Idk if it works with Legacy Collection.

Ooh, thank you for letting me know! I'll investigate ^_^

Did it end up working? I always hated the Pets expansion.

[Faye Strawberry]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Did it end up working? I always hated the Pets expansion.

I found it online but I couldn't really get a sense of whether it will work. The most recent update was last year so no changes have been made for the Legacy version, but it might work as is.

I haven't tried it myself because I haven't bought The Sims 2 yet. I want to feel more confident that the game won't crash constantly and that I'll be able to play in a way that suits me before buying it.

[Blackout K.]

I doubt even with mod tools, you can disable EP/SP as I quickly out the game files to see if other packs has the exe file and none of them do which both disc and Ultimate Collection has.

If you want to do it legally as possible and don't mind having to do extra work to get it running, there is an Guide of installing disc version of The Sims 2[shinki26.tumblr.com] and it then finding the disc version of EP/SP second-hand as well as the base game.

[Faye Strawberry]

Ahh, okay, thank you for letting me know :)
I would like to have the game on Steam but it would be great to be able to choose which expansion packs to use, so I'll have a think and decide which way to do it. That guide looks incredibly helpful if I do choose the disc version - thank you for the link!