okay, I got the new simPe up and running.
How do I edit relationships?

I do have all the expansion packs.  What about a hack that is BV compatible?

I don't want Cassandra and don engaged, but I want don to still be in love with her.

In regards to telemarketing:

1)  I've done it before.  The managers/business isn't very nice to the people who actually do the work (the telemarketers who are on the phones)

2)  We have a telemarketing block on our phone provided by the phone company.  You call our number and hear this message that we don't take unsolicited called and you are told to press 1 plus the #.  Since most telemarketers face a computer wearing a headset with no controls to the phone they can't get through.  Our phone company offers that for an extra $2 a month.  But we pay for a "global communication package" which includes all the special phone features + dsl for one low price!

 

I just ran regedit.  There is so much in there.  Is there a program (either free or cheap) that you recommend to use, to clean that up; so that only what I really need is in there?

What if you convert a changing booth to a shower?

what is that and what does it do and where do I get it?

no. It doesn't say which files.

But I'll try that uninstall, reinstall idea.  I see I can just uninstall bon voyage, without uninstalling everything.

So I saved my sims2 file to my desktop, and uninstalled just bon voyage.   It's in the process of reinstalling.  Then I remove securom, and put in the the awesome non spawning hack and the no cd crack and I should be okay?


Edit:
Thanks for the advice.  I had been playing the unholy hybrid since the patch came out, but maybe that's too much for my game.

I see that the patch isn't recommended by this site anyway.

I just played the game yesterday.  And it was fine, now today I'm getting this error message when I'm trying to load bon Voyage.  I am running the "unholy hybrid"  Do I need to reinstall or is there another fix?   And if I have to reinstall, do I have to reinstall everything or just bon voyage?   I tried restarting my computer.  I tried deleting the accessories.cash and the groups.cash, but I keep getting that same error message.

Any advice?

Thanks.  I've tried 3 different nvidia drivers.  I'll try that one now

I tried that new driver, and my game still crashed.

maybe they don't get much rain in CA?

Thanks for the help; I don't like that cheat as it ruins my awesome graphics, but I guess that's better than the game randomly crashing (sometimes right after a promotion) and me loosing everything because I forget to save.

I guess I'll go over there to the "you broke it thread" and read what's there.

I have all the expansion packs, and all the stuff packs.  I have removed securom from my system and am using the no-cd crack to load the game.

I have tried several different drivers.  It still crashes.  One driver I had stopped the crashing till I got bon voyage.

The game will crash to a blue screen, and sometime stay like that till I ctrl+alt+del. Or some times it crashes shows the blue screen and goes to the desktop.  It has no warning and is totally random; it could crash after a few min of play, or I could play all night and have no crash.  Sometimes I get an error message about my graphics adapter, but now always.  I have to restart the computer to load the game again.


runs sims good. (except for the bsod) Hubby built it for 1/3 to 1/5 the cost of a gaming machine and it keeps up with them pretty well.

My specs:
Shuttle XPC barebones system came with onboard sound, power supply (which we had to upgrade), heat sink

CPU: Pent 3.2 ghz dual core processor -- not a celeron
Memory: 2 sticks of 512 dual channel each = 1 gb memory 4 channels
Vid card: Nvidia Gforce 6600gt; PCI express with 128 vid memory
Dvd RW drive
Hard drives: 150gb 10,000 rpm for programs -- 1/4 full (loads windows in less than a min, used to load sims in less than a min till I filled it with downloads now it takes 3-5 min) 300 gb 74,000 rpm hard drive for storage divided into 4 nearly equal partitions.
Operating system: Windows XP service pack 2

not sure if I'm forgetting anything.

And the game runs fast even when I had a 12 family household. I sometimes have to pause to keep up. All graphics settings are high by default. I see cut scenes. I can invite 8 sims to a party.

good hubby, good hubby. I think I'll keep him


 Oh and we  bought a 19" LCD response time: 8ms monitor from ebay for about $200. Sims looks good on it.

If this has already been answered, please don't poke me with sticks, as I haven't found a solution yet  Nevermind.  Use all the sticks you want if you solve my problem.   

I have a firewall and virus scanner that I keep updated.  ( don't really want to disable those as I have an always on dsl connection and often use the internet while playing)  I run defrag, norton one button check up, virus scanner, and several ad ware/spyware scanners on a regular basis (2-5 times a week -- defrag every couple of weeks, we try not to let it be longer than a month)

Yeah, I should have went with my first instinct and come here first.  But then I reasoned.  A patch fixes problems right.
Next time I'll be coming here first.

I had to re remove securom because of that patch.  I hope the no-cd crack + patch = unholy hybrid doesn't create that dreaded BFBVFS

I don't trust it.
I've removed the securom folders and the registry entry, and added the no-cd hack
I installed  the patch then re added the no-cd patch.

Then on this site (from phyllisp) I heard about a securom file that I missed "Here's something I noticed.  When one hovers the mouse over the CmdLineExt.dll in c:\Windows\system32 folder, it says "Description: SecuROM context menu for Explorer. Company: Sony DADC Austria AG." and the version etc.  Maybe instead of outsourcing, they got that part from the Austrian branch?"

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9924.msg271245.html#msg271245


So I went and found the CmdLineExt.dll file, and noticed that the last time it was modified was today.  I downloaded and installed the patch today.  humm.  I thought of that as I read this post.

I have deleted that file (the CmdLineExt.dll file that is, I don't know about deleting the patch without reinstalling).
But I have told my firewall to deny thesims2 access to the web.

not yet.

Well for me it wasn't a problem.
I downloaded and installed the patch, which over wrote my no-cd hack
so I reapplied the no-cd patch
And I'm playing  the game as I type.