It's exactly what I'm talking about...  I would prefer not shut down all the audio option because of the radio or the television or maybe the guitar song but if I have to... at last, I will do.  I really cannot support that annoying finishing a repair job music, first kiss etc.. anymore!!

I'm so tired to ear a little music EVERY time my Sims so something... each time the Sim find something on the neighborhood... each time he paint... each time bla bla bla... and I'M getting to tired about this...

I tryed to disabled all the audio options but the Jesus Christ of music still play when a Sims accomplish something...

Please, help me with this... this getting me crazy at last!

Sorry for my english 


OH and also, there is an ugly damage car neighbor of my beautiful house... and I can't get it off because its in the neighborhood.. is there a way to change the entire neighborhood to get this stupid car out of my game?

Many thanks again

I would like to be able to mortgage to buy a decent house for my Sims   

I'm so tired about the fact that if I want to play without cheating, I have to buy a small and ridiculous ugly house and stupid furnitures and I have to live in this little pitty house for about three generations before THINKING leaving the house for a bigger one...

If I would have the chance to mortgage to buy a beautiful house and decent furniture when I start the game exactly as human do... they go to the bank and make a mortgage and then, buy their house... and... pay after   

I'm sure someone can do a little program or hack here and realize my wish 

Hey dears...

I want to present you my new baby...

NO freeze, NO slow, a real jewel!  I love it.  The game is so fast to load, wonderful graphics.  I never play before like I do now... its wonderful, I'm so happy 





Thanks once again for the time you took for me 

I am like a child at christmas mouahhhh   

Are you telling me, even if I have the most ultimate computer, I will still have freeze or slow moments in my game???    Geez but when you look at the preview Maxis gave us, you see that there is no freeze, no slow, nothing bad... are they liar?    I would be surprise about the answer...

Hello dear,

Just want to thanks all of you for your good advice.  Thanks Mr. Pescado, after I read what you say about Vista, I decided to stay on XP 

But for the rest, my technician will built me a brand new computer to rock my Sims 

I really want to play without any freeze or slow in the game 

Yes, my RAM will be DDR2 800  (2X2Gig)

Hello,

I'm actually on the process to buy a new computer for my sims 2.  I just receive a cotation with a configuration and I would like to know please for your advice on it.

The computer I look to buy is :

P4 Core 2 Duo 3MHZ Intel

motherboard : P5K-C INTL P35/ICH9 (Asus)

CPU : E6850 3.00 CORE 2 4M(1333 FSB)

MEM : DDR2 800

HARD DISK : SEAGATE 320GB

VIDEO CARD : SAPPHIRE HD2600XT 512M  (512MB ATI DDR3)

ON WINDOWS VISTA 32B PREMIUM



On this, can I be sure I will rock my Sims?  How do you think about it please.

Many thanks in advance

isa xxx

Thank you very much dear 

I have all the add-on too, I'm playing all day long with my Sims... well, the days I don't work.  I cannot say that my game doesn't work fine actually but sometimes its little slow, even when I'm playing on a big lot with a big family.  and sometimes, the game freeze for few seconds but don't crash.

My computer has two years old and when I bought it, it was FOR the Sims 2.  I have two fans on this machine to prevent the highest temperature.  Its really a computer built for my favorite game.

My kids want to play Sims 2 too but I don't want them to touch my computer... nobody touch my computer except me    So I decide to buy them an other computer for Christmas but I was looking to upgrade my own computer to an other one and gave them mine that I actually have.

The technician talk me about a Quad 64 bits because he said that my machine cannot be boost anymore.  It suppose to be at the top right now  Geeze, on what kind of computer Maxis built the game, I really would like to know because they seems to play without any problems ...

My biggest scare is to lose all of my programs if I turn on 64 bits.. like Nero, PhotoShop... I'm really not very familiar with the 32 bits or 64 etc..

Thank you very much Gwill 

Actually, my configuration is this :

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
Mémoire : 3070 RAM
DirectX 9.0C
Windows Professionnel service pack 2
Carte graphique : ATI Radeon 6333/X1050 Series

I'm looking for an other more powerful computer to play with my Sims.  My game play enough well but sometime little slow and freezing for little seconds.  My technician talk me about a  Quad or Quatro, don't know the real name of the CPU with 64 bits under windows XP.

I need to know before buy this machine if it will be really powerful and if the game is compatible in 64 bits.

I try to make a research but I didn't find nothing about this.  Can you help me please?

The big problem with neighboor with beach.... is the water in the basement of a house 


I downloaded the Harmony neighborhood who I found really wonderful...but... my houses always have cave(basement) and when the house is on a neighbor who have beach present... then, the house have water in the cave.  Sims doens't care about this but its really not funny

I wil show you one of my houses to let you know what I'm talking about.

I really don't know if there,s a patch to prevent this problem.

I made some test.

I have three computer here so i decided to install the entire game on my office one, just to test how many characters the game put in the folder.

For the neighboor of MontSympa, the first one with the Gothick, don't know in english sorry.  "Plansantview" I guess?

I install ALL the game, means that I put the three University, the three vacance destination etc..

The basic game put 170 characters in the game and 26 lots.

Academy = 242 characters and 84 lots. 

Nightlife = 78 characters and 44 lots

OFB = 77 characters and 33 lots

Pets = 67 characters and 0 lots

Seasons = 17 characters and 0 lots

BV = 104 new characters and 39 lots

For a big total of 755 characters and 226 lots.

Your soo sweet dear    thank you so much for your so beautiful french.

Actually, I found the hack who gave me a wonderful migraine   



Its a hack who gave us the chance to put up to 30 Sims in the same lot. 

I took it off.

And I would like to tell that I always read the rtmf when available in a hack... that's why I was so confuse about my problem 

Well, many thanks again.

I always make a research before post but sometime, its not easy for me to understand everything in english.  There is some words or expression in english that I don't use or understand in french so I don't always find a solution for my problem when I'm searching for.  Apologize again for this post    and so much thanks.

You're right, I have some little dificulties with my english, I apolozige   

Sometimes, I have to read more then four time to be sure to really understand clearly.  But all hack is in english and all the help I can find is in english.  I really do not want to attack somebody but the official french website for Sims 2 are so bad.  Each time you ask for help, the answer doesn't come or erase or simply ignore by tell us not to go on Pirate site   

BUT, the help and the bug fix come allways from pirate site at first OR a place like here.  That's why I came here and not in a french one   

What i will do, is play with an other sims and put one per one all the hack I have in my game to test them.

You also may want to pick an Insim.  You should only have one version installed, not all three.  Having more than one version installed makes things go wonky for no apparent reason.

I though the three was necessary, thanks to told me about it.

Same problem with perfect gardens/perfect plants. One or the other, not both.

Same explanation... I though the two was different.  I will make one out of my game right away.

Thank you very much for your help 

Please help me...

Its nightmare for me.  When I go on vacation, I simply cannot buy massage or learn the Polka, but the worse nightmare I have and I'm really tired about this, is that fu*** error message....

I really don't know what is causing this and I really would like to fix this. 

I really would like to know what cause these error message and how I can make them disapear.



My configuration is

I have Simpe but never really use it anymore.  I never make anything in Simpe over my neighborhood or something.

I also have all of these hack in my game...  maybe it could help..



I really want these bug disapear... and oh, yes, I ALWAYS play in debbugmode.   

Well, the game is not running more faster.  I put the patch of J.M.Pescado for the critical problem and I notice that I have 13 touristic guide in my neighboorhood so I don't think my game is that much corrupted.

This is incredible how this game is aking so much to a computer.  I would like to know what kind of computer EAGames have to realize this game.  They must have the biggest computer of this world 

Thank you ZephyrZodiac, I have Avast and I will disable it when I start my game.  I want the best performance possible for my game. 

Oh Geez, I should tough to this by myself   I feel so stupid.    Ok, lets disconnet the web to see what it done to my game.  Many thanks.

Hello BastDawn, thank you for your help.

I cannot disconnect the web, my modem is always running the web.  But I can try to configure my firewall who come with the windowx xp to deny BV accesss to the web.  I never tough it could be the source of the problem, I'm very surprise about this 

Really?  So if my computer spec is great, then, why the game is soooo slow???   This game ask so much to the computer, this is a chance that I have it.  I bought it ONLY for my Sims 2 game    I ask to the technician enough of power to be able to play really great and add all the futur add-on without having to boost it.