It sounds to me like it's just bad ram. Did you get an off-brand?

First, 1 gig should be enough for Sims 2. It works for me. I suspect your problems running the game probably stem from something else.

However, my first question is: are you sure you got the right kind of memory? Check http://www.crucial.com/. My second is: what brand did you get?

My third is, what's with all the ellipses?

Hm, I'll check that, but I don't have ceiling lights in my bathrooms. I will move the lights I have in there as far away from the door as possible though, thanks for the tip.

My social goes down if I am forced to interact with a toddler in any way. I work in retail. Kids. Ugh.

Yeah, the blank window and door thing happens to me all the time too, but it doesn't stay that way in live mode. Saving regularly while building helps somewhat, but doesn't eliminate it. Irritating, but not as much of an issue as doors staying open indefinitely while playing, for me.

Do you really want to watch your Sims to do everything people do?

Online sex and actual sex are two entirely different things. I really can't see online woohoo fulfilling an actual woohoo want.

That song is stuck in my head now .

I get a message that the bandwidth for his site has been used up for the month .

People will never stop thinking about Sim porn.

Is it just me, or does the idea of watching one's Sims masturbate seem to finally cross into some really weird category? Like, talk about something you could be doing yourself instead! Voyeurism is one thing, voyeurism regarding masturbation takes it to another level, voyeurism regarding pixels "masturbating"...

My cat is neither fat nor lazy nor not-nice. All my kitties have been nice, in fact, whether or not they're also fat and lazy, and they are NOT solitary. That is a really crappy myth about cats.

You're also perfectly safe installing things like clothing, hair, object recolors, etc. They'll slow down the time it takes for your game to load, and if you have a lot of very large (file-size) objects on a lot, they'll slow that down too, but they won't cause any other problems if they're made correctly.

If you do find a hack or object that causes problems, it's also very simple to just remove it. It can be time-consuming to track down the offender, though. Don't be afraid to try custom content and hacks that are supported (especially those from this site) in your game. They do improve the game immensely, and I personally would not still be playing without them .

So is mine.

The awesome (TM) college adjustor by TwoJeffs has the option to make your Sim a vampire, too.

Some of the weird things in your game will also be fixed by installing some hacks. Search here for any critical or important fixes. Avoiding any and all hacks will cause you many more problems than installing some selectively and carefully. Good luck!

Turn-ons don't really do much, though they can push lightning bolts up a bit. One of this Sim's turn-ons is vampirism, but I can't even remember what the other is. She's romance, he's pleasure, and apparently she happened to have the right astrological sign too. I've never had three lightning bolts happen without at least one sign being attracted to the other, with no repulsion. I wasn't even trying for the count, I just wanted to get my romance Sim a date. Just happened that way.

The lifetime want of my Count Goopy is to marry off six children, by the way. WTF?

I got the Count as a $5000 date for one of my Sims, as well. 3 lightning bolts. Convenient, since I wanted to make her a vampire.

The cow thing is fixed by the romance mod. The cow still flirts, but when it's (almost invariably) rejected, Sims won't get upset at the person flirted with. They get upset with the cow. Who the heck gets upset at their boyfriend or girlfriend for rejecting flirtation with someone else, anyway?

If she's a member of the Secret Society, that doesn't matter, I've gotten them to move in before. If she's the cow, llama, streaker or cheerleader, I've never tried to move those in, so maybe that could cause issues.

Is she friends with the student who tried to move her in?

http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.html if you want the full version. A great play that made for a non-great psychological theory. Freud was awesome in that he advocated listening to patients, but his theories were mostly bunk.
http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html, Antigone, is an even better play and even more depressing, about Oedipus' daughter.

All my Sims want to woohoo all the time, except pleasure Sims, who would rather jump on the couch .

My Sims are well-trained .

I seem to remember that romantic kiss greeting causing jealousy before. Maybe they fixed it with Nightlife. I have the romancemod installed, and now my Sims don't seem to do that if they're committed to a different Sim.

I miss the hand thing too, it was great with outgoing Sims.

I feel a helluva lot safer in D.C., which I visit very regularly, than driving down the road in Florida. Even factoring D.C. traffic into account.

Thanks SaraMK, that's great info.

Actually, that's pretty much what my most of my Sims end up being. They'll get obnoxious wants stuck there sometimes: have 10 kids, be abducted, woohoo in public with 3 different Sims (which every aspiration gets), etc., but after a few Simdays I'm usually able to make them want what I want them to want, and just ignore that one obnoxious want. The only exception I've found yet is the pleasure aspiration. When the "major wants" info panel on the character creation screen shows a bunch of measly 500 point wants, you know you're in trouble.

There's no easier Sim to keep happy than one with a romance aspiration and job-related lifetime want.

That's odd. With the romancemod, my Sims won't initiate romantic interactions with a Sim if they are already committed to another one, but they will certainly initiate all over the place if they aren't already committed. Family Sims seem more likely than others to initiate as well. I had two non-controllable, non-lightning bolt Sims, popularity and family, fall in love at their friends' wedding all on their own, for instance.

I've given up on repricing floors and walls, though the cheating nature of all the $1 stuff drives me nutty. Same with objects. This game is not hard, what on earth necessitates making things so cheap? For objects, it really screws up Fortune Sims as well: they all end up with exactly the same sculptures, sinks, etc., and very little custom content works for them.

I didn't know that comfort was not readily editable on custom stuff through SimPE. Is it just comfort, or does it apply to all the other stats (besides price)? And if so, how does one edit the stats?