Problems when performing advanced installation,
diamonde:
I've always had Sims 2 installed on a different partition to Windows, and I moved My Docs to yet another partition after installing University. I've had to reformat a couple of times, most recently when I upgraded my computer and got a new primary HD, and the only time I had any trouble was when I installed one expansion pack onto C by mistake and all the others onto D. But as long as they're all in the same place, it works fine. No manual registry changes or other complicated tweaking involved.
I honestly had no idea it could be a problem, I've been blithely installing games wherever there was space since Windows 95.
edalbformat:
I always have minimum four partitions in my hard drive. I have a 500GB HD and as I make far too many tests that I insistly keep for further analysis, I would make a mess of another dimension if I kept everything in the same partition. My base game is installed in partition D: and all the EPs are in C:
I use E and F for experiments.
I never tried to change any swap or anything. I'm using Windows XP and don't know if or when I'm going to install Vista, maybe when I buy a newer computer.
My computer has 4GB RAM but it seems that XP cannot use it. All the TS analysis say that I have 2GB available. Maybe TS cannot use it. I cannot play very big lots, full with decoration or furniture, the game lags.
For long I've been thinking about buying a laptop but they are not still as big as I wish, so I prefer my station PC.
TS2 does not justify a big investment and I'm afraid that if the company launches TS3 too soon we are going to struggle with the same problems we have now, a Base Game that is insignificant and EPs that should be named MPs or Mending Patches.
ScoobyDoo:
You won't be able to use 4GB with 32bit XP.
Personally I like to keep C: for windows, d: for programs, e: for data, and a couple mapped network drives. When I have to reinstall windows, I just backup the stubbern stuff that insists on residenting on the windows partition. Nuke windows, reinstall it, rename my old d:\program files\ to something like D:\old program files. As I reinstall each app, I simply delete it from the old program file folder. Theres a few apps I just simply move over to the new folder, no reinstall is necessary. In the end if theres anything left in the old programs folder it's either I don't need it anymore, or i forgot to reinstall it.
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