Works fine on my PC

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I thought the game was supposed to be broken??

[In The Shadow....]

Автор сообщения: Xeriath

This is wrong. One of my friends played this game with obsession in vanilla state for over 2 years and her save never got corrupt but she had tons of back-ups and managed her sim population like crazy.

I really recommend watching this video if you worry about corruption.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cB67DGDXFQ&ab_channel=AprilBlack

I just got to the 17:45 - "Download Memory fixes to prevent that bug from happening"... while the video is a good watch so far, she is basically saying that YOU as the consumer NEED to FIX the game YOURSELF.... so.... if I need to fix it myself.... Why would I pay EA for this game in the first place? People pay companies for the game to be able to PLAY said game, this fixes SHOULD be done by EA (or whatever company depending on the game). People pay for the sake of simplicity, you as the consumer should NOT need to tinker with the files in any shape or form. Which brings me to the point of EA should have done a better job with this re-release.

[satioh]

I had only 1 crash and that was just as it was saving when I made my family in CAS. The family was saved and I could play with it when I loaded up again and when I later added all my old mods again it worked too. BUT beeing very of all the people haveing bugs I only raised the quality of everything to medioum and the scren resultion stayed on the 1080* (forgot number). My computer is very new and very good and it can easily handle the most advanced specc, but maybee turning it down to medium, including the resolution is what is keeping my game from crashing? However reading the posts here, my family won't be going on vacation or beeing abducted by aliens any time soon.

[In The Shadow....]

Автор сообщения: satioh

I had only 1 crash and that was just as it was saving when I made my family in CAS. The family was saved and I could play with it when I loaded up again and when I later added all my old mods again it worked too. BUT beeing very of all the people haveing bugs I only raised the quality of everything to medioum and the scren resultion stayed on the 1080* (forgot number). My computer is very new and very good and it can easily handle the most advanced specc, but maybee turning it down to medium, including the resolution is what is keeping my game from crashing? However reading the posts here, my family won't be going on vacation or beeing abducted by aliens any time soon.

You are not wrong, I have read that putting "Shadows Quality" on High can crash your game endlessly.

[Xeriath]

Автор сообщения: In The Shadow....

People pay for the sake of simplicity, you as the consumer should NOT need to tinker with the files in any shape or form. Which brings me to the point of EA should have done a better job with this re-release.

Yeah, I agree with you. It’s a shame in which quality it got released. I don’t have many issues, but honestly, I don’t care much about it. I play it because of nostalgy but not because I want to deep dive in this game. This game is too old for my taste. I only wish they release more older titles on Steam and this was the core reason why I purchased this. The price is nothing which hurts me, of course I would wish they would deliver a better quality but it’s EA. I would be rather surprised if they didn’t release a broken game.

[In The Shadow....]

Автор сообщения: Xeriath

Автор сообщения: In The Shadow....

People pay for the sake of simplicity, you as the consumer should NOT need to tinker with the files in any shape or form. Which brings me to the point of EA should have done a better job with this re-release.

Yeah, I agree with you. It’s a shame in which quality it got released. I don’t have many issues, but honestly, I don’t care much about it. I play it because of nostalgy but not because I want to deep dive in this game. This game is too old for my taste. I only wish they release more older titles on Steam and this was the core reason why I purchased this. The price is nothing which hurts me, of course I would wish they would deliver a better quality but it’s EA. I would be rather surprised if they didn’t release a broken game.

Yeah sadly you are right.

[In The Shadow....]

Also the other problem is that it seems like it got re-released even in a worse state compared to the original release in 2004

[In The Shadow....]

Автор сообщения: Xeriath

This is wrong. One of my friends played this game with obsession in vanilla state for over 2 years and her save never got corrupt but she had tons of back-ups and managed her sim population like crazy.

I really recommend watching this video if you worry about corruption.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cB67DGDXFQ&ab_channel=AprilBlack

Actually this video is making me see what potentially is the problem with the sims 2 right now. Originally the game only had 1,000 population limit (which according to the video doesn't mean SIMS only, it means a bunch of stuff)... and then at some point the limit got amplified to +32,000 population limit.... and seeing the problems that people are having from saves not working and so on.... I firmly believe that somehow in this re-release there is only a population limit of 1,000.

[James3157]

Автор сообщения: 60

I thought the game was supposed to be broken??

Are you certain? Have you played long enough to notice you got stuck on a loading screen when trying to leave home to visit somewhere else? This terrible bug causes you to lose sims and pets, lose progress in the game, and if I had to take a guess the one of the worst bugs in the entire game besides maybe the losing a child permanently when sending to school. This is a really bad bug, because it forces your sim to stay at home and not go anywhere besides going to work assuming the sim has a job. I was tempting for me to buy The SIms 2 on the first day of release, but part of me is relieved that I did not. Any game breaking bugs especially need to be reported directly to EA in hopes they fix them quickly in an emergency patch.

[rebouchow]

Anyone else having problems with the actions menu? Everytime I click a sim it pops up and disappears right away, it's impossible to choose any action, I can't even play :( I installed windows again and it worked for like an hour yesterday so I thought it was fixed, but today it doesn't work again :/

[havin406]

What’s happening?!? My screen gets 7x bigger and nothing works. I can’t click on anything.every time I try loading the game. How can I fixes this?

[DragonCam]

The game is fine. It's the review bombers mad they didn't get it free who thinks they are entitled to it because they had ultimate collection.

[JDumbz]

Yeah, me too.

Played primary on my PC and the experience has been normal and great! I played like 3 hours as well offline on my Steam Deck with an entire different save and no issues either and have not needed to tinker something.

[James3157]

Автор сообщения: DragonCam

The game is fine. It's the review bombers mad they didn't get it free who thinks they are entitled to it because they had ultimate collection.

Wrong. There may be some people giving negative reviews for The SIms 2 that has nothing to do with the ultimate collection and it being given away for free at one point. Not being able to launch the game, body shop is missing, and the game not working properly in various different ways even if able to successfully launch the game are other reasons for giving The SIms 2 a negative review on Steam.

[Pleiadian Chloe]

I've noticed a couple small glitches but nothing that impacts the game massively. I'm feeling lucky.

[Constantine]

Im having problem as well on the vacation islands. The twikki island game is stuck in loading screen. Gotta wait for it to unbug only to have it stuck in another loading screen later on.