Uninstalling other EA Games uninstalls TS2?
Angie:
I really broke it this time.
This weekend, I uninstalled another game by EA called NBA Live 2005. Today, I tried to play TS2 for the first time since then, and found that the uninstall had somehow deleted the .exe files for all my Sims expansion packs. >:( Other than the missing .exe files, my game files appear to be mostly intact.
How should I go about putting everything back in order? Should I completely uninstall every single expansion pack, then reinstall them one by one? Or is there a simpler way to go about this?
veilchen:
As far as I know, uninstalling the latest EP uninstalls everything else, because new EP's introduce new files that older games cannot read any longer.
As far as just installing select files from the disc, I'm afraid you'll have to wait for someone else to help you. Just make sure you back up your files before uninstalling and hide them on your desktop. I even go so far as re-naming the back-up just to be on the safe side. You can then just plop the older files into the new folder and they'll overwrite the new-install with your saved stuff, i.e. your neighborhoods, characters, etc.
But before doing the uninstall/re-install bit, wait a while. Maybe someone else has a better idea ;)
jsalemi:
If only the .exe's are gone, you can copy them back from the original disk. You only need the one for the highest/latest EP you have, since it doesn't run the older ones. You can find the original .exe usually on the first disk for the EP, in a file called something like compressed.zip.
Lorelei:
Fucking EA.
You have to be kidding me.
Why would anyone buy anything else this crappy company produces ever again?
>.<
J. M. Pescado:
I just noticed this earlier today: For some reason, my OFB executables had gone missing, and the game was suddenly bitching that I had uninstalled it. It is uncertain whether this is the work of SecuROM. Or why OFB, and only OFB, would go missing as a result.
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