Windowed Mode Not Working?
Cupcake:
Quote from: Solowren on 2009 May 05, 04:35:24
Quote from: Cupcake Caught Fire on 2009 May 03, 21:06:45
Mine looks like this :
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Apartment Life\TSBin\Sims2EP8.exe" -w
without a space, so you might want to give that a try?
Dude... there is a space in there. Just FYI.
... God, I'm stupid.
GelatinousSubstance:
Quote from: Simsane on 2009 May 05, 08:31:25
hmmm, I'm stumped then because I actually copied and pasted from the Target line within Properties and I'm running in XP Pro 32 bit, so from what everyone is telling me, that should be correct and my game should open in a window -- but it's not. :-\ Oh, and there is actually a space between the second set of quotes and the -w, so I really just don't understand why it's not working correctly.
Oh well, thank you to everyone who tried to help. I have already tested Numenor's AGS and it does open in a window, so I'll just take my screen shots from within that program instead.
I just noticed you have GL. When you start the game, does the Splash Screen actually say The Sims 2 Seasons? Or does it say The Sims 2 Glamour Life? If I recall correctly, I think GL ran like an EP. Though, I don't know if this could be the culprit.
And...
Are you actually trying to open the game from the modified shortcut? - Stupid question, I know. But stupidity isn't that uncommon.
Simsane:
Quote from: kremesch on 2009 May 05, 18:55:26
I just noticed you have GL. When you start the game, does the Splash Screen actually say The Sims 2 Seasons? Or does it say The Sims 2 Glamour Life? If I recall correctly, I think GL ran like an EP. Though, I don't know if this could be the culprit.
And...
Are you actually trying to open the game from the modified shortcut? - Stupid question, I know. But stupidity isn't that uncommon.
I've been playing using my Seasons disk and that works fine. After reading your post, I double-checked and GL came out in 2006 and Seasons came out on May 1, 2007, so that should be the right one anyway. Also, I do use the icon with the modified shortcut, but that's the one that's not working. Since I modified it, I haven't actually thought to try going into my Start menu and into the game that way -- it's just habit to click on the icon that's already on my desktop, which is the one I copied and pasted the target line above in an earlier post. I know, it's really weird that it's not working properly, isn't it? I do know that one of the cheats I'm supposed to have doesn't work either -- the forcetwins cheat, but I really don't care about that one as I rarely ever want them to have twins anyway. But yes, I did try the cheat after she was very definitely preggers. Ended up rather glad that it didn't work afterall, so the fact that cheat doesn't work for me isn't an issue for me. I just thought I'd mention it because it's strange that it doesn't work either.
To let anyone who reads this know, my computer was having issues and was completely reformatted not too terribly long ago. After it was reformatted, another gig of ram was added to give me two gigs instead of just one. Then I installed my games again and decided that I wanted to use the Clean Templates this time instead of the game sims. All of that went well and after double-checking with SimPE to make sure I only had the bare minimum of characters, then I proceeded to clean out my Downloads folder by going in and deleting crap I really didn't like or want. Did this in both Bodyshop and in the Buy and Build catalogs. Once that was all taken care of and all the default replacement stuff was in place, that's when I finally started creating townies, downtownies, dormies, etc. Everything has been working well in every way except for the forcetwins cheat and trying to get my game to open in a window. But I rarely use the cheats, so it could be possible that there are other cheats which don't work, I wouldn't really know. I have most of Pescado's Seasons hacks in my game to help and just rarely feel the need to actually use the game cheats.
I haven't actually gotten really "connected" to any of my sims yet -- maybe I should just copy my Downloads, Camera, Config and Saved Sims folders and then try uninstalling and reinstalling Seasons to see if that would help? Course, then I'd also have to reinstall the clean templates too, which would be a real pia, but I could do it just to see if that would fix my problem.
Does anyone else think I should try that?
GelatinousSubstance:
I don't know if I would go to the extreme of re-installing just yet. Even then, I'd probably just clear out the Sims 2 folder in My Documents rather than go through the installation again (after backing it up just in case, of course). That will basically reset your game.
I'd probably just try deleting the shortcut and creating a new one first. Then I would add the [space]-w after to see if the same thing happens. But as I mentioned in my previous post, the shortcut you should use really depends on what the splash screen says.
As far as the hacks not working, it could have something to do with the order in which they're loading, a conflict, or they may simply be outdated.
Simsane:
Thanks, I'll try just deleting my shortcut and creating a new one again. My splash screen says Seasons. Oh, and because I've been making so many changes to my game, I've deleted my sims 2 folder that's inside of My Documents/EA Games TONS of times lately, lol! Just trying to get my game to be the way I want it to be. I use the HCDU and it reports no problems. Plus, it isn't my hacks that aren't working correctly, it's the built-in cheats. Well, the forcetwins cheat, specifically. That's okay though. Your suggestion to delete my shortcut and create a new one is a good one. I really should have thought to do that myself, but you know how it is, sometimes the obvious gets overlooked. ;)
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