After reinstalling with a regedit, I finally got Showtime to run properly. Yay!

Now I have a lame request.

While playing my magician, he constantly "flubbed" his tricks. He was at the top level of his career and I didn't see this happening to real magicians. I know this is a stupid request, but can someone make a mod that will allow magicians (and other performers) who are at high levels have less chance of a performance to go wrong?

Just a thought.

I'm already sick of it and I haven't even gotten to play. I installed it and when I click on the launcher it tells me that it isn't a valid win32 application. If I bypass the launcher, it says it can't be started. I've been messing around with it for 6 hours (off and on) and EA's "help" is no help at all (no I am NOT surprised). I have no idea what is wrong nor do I care at this point.

Every one who was lucky to get the stupid thing going, I hope you enjoy it. As for me, I'm done with it!

LOL. Ok. At least I know that I haven't lost my mind. I found the proper URL. Thank you.

I tried to access the booty, but I got a Sims Resource page saying it was down for maintenance. Am I stupid (yes, I am kinda) or is something up?

EDIT: I'm still getting the TSR page. I downloaded some free items from them so I may have picked up a bug or something. I'll have to check.

Thank you cwieberdink. It was the "D" thing. I completely forgot about that since I haven't reloaded Sims in a long time. I knew I had all the meshes, but I just couldn't put my finger on the problem.

Thanks again.

I have quite a bit of custom objects and clothing in my download folder. The objects are all showing,  but the custom clothing I downloaded isn't.  I created an elder male pj just to see if it would show up, which it did. Any one have any ideas? Thank you.

Sorry it took so long to answer again.
Actually, once the game refused to restart, the only thing I could do is reload. Even shutting the computer down did nothing to help.

But I may have fixed it. After reloading the game and installing my custom content,  I ran the hack detection utility and a duplicate file finder, removing all the files that it found suspect. I then bypassed the launcher exe and started running the ep6.exe. It has started and restarted many times with no problems. I don't know which of these helped, or perhaps a combination of all, but it is running fine.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. 

Thanks!

I shut the game down. And it isn't an overheating issue, this much I'm sure. And I regularly clean the inside of the case.
It happens when I shut down for the evening or when I turn off the computer, and I try to restart the game the next day or so. It seems to let me restart up to 4 times, some times less.

I'll try the groups.cache thing the next time it happens. I just reinstalled - deleted my downloads and downloaded fresh copies of the files. Also ran the hack conflict detector and duplicate file remover program. And just to make sure, virus and malware checked. Everything checks out fine.

It has only started happening since Bon Voyage. I may need to reload Windows, but that will be my last resort.

I'm having a problem with my game starting after awhile.  I can run it and play, then shut down up to 4 times. On the next attempt, the disk will spin up, Bon Voyage will be listed in the task manager, then the disk will spin down. It will then disappear from the task manager and then...nothing. No message, crash notice...zip. If I uninstall BV and reload, we start it all over again. Up to 4 times and that's all she wrote.

I have all expansions and stuff packs. I have tried starting with and without downloads - tried removing SecuRom and running with it. Nothing helps.  Any Ideas? Please help me - I'm stupid 

Oh...I'm running XP Pro - 10gig free on drive (that's after installing downloads) and I have 1gig memory.

'k...just curious like I said. Actually, I'm afraid to try anything that is suggested by Ea or associated...Unless backed up those (modders) who know 

I hope I didn't miss someone else posting this but, the uninstaller from SecuROM site is a big 404. I was just curious about it as I download a No-cd thingie.(I have to. My game will play a day or so, crash and won't start again even without hacks.)