75% installation complete?
Simsample:
What I would suggest is a full clean uninstall (make sure all reg entries are removed) and then a full manual install of the basegame. The expansion installer obtains basegame information from the registry too, so it could be that a registry key is missing from your basegame install as well as datafiles.
http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Install#Copy_Install_Files_to_Your_Hard_Drive
Lerf:
Also, EA really, really means it when they say you should shut down all background tasks. Found that out the hard way.
Rosebud:
Thanks for all the help. After a mass search I finally found a method that worked. Here's the link for anyone not quite figuring out how to do it.
http://help.lockergnome.com/general/Sims-Error-message-install--ftopict49413.html
You'll have to scroll about half way down the page and follow the instructions to the letter.
As for background tasks, I have never had issues with that ( maybe a little game lag ), but never installation issues.
The auto run image for disc 2 is not present as it is for all the rest of the discs. This seems to be the reason disc 2 would not install, it had no run menu. This manual installation treated the entire setup as a single massive virtual disc.
Again, thanks for the help, I'm not sure I'd have hunted for specifics in manual installation without it.
As of this moment, I am happily hunting down cc and adding my own creations back to my d/l folder.
Simsample:
That's the same method on the page I linked you to earlier, in the SimsWiki. There's a link to manual install instructions on the EA site.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page