![]() If you don’t know how to extract files, see this article: ģ. Extract the “The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection” folder to your desktop. Also make sure that you disable your antivirus before installing the game.Ģ. Make sure you have uninstalled all older versions of The Sims 2 games, including registry entries, and make sure there is no “EA Games” folder in your Documents folder (if you do then delete it). I imagine that will work unless some strange version has been used.Īs the website which the instructions are located has been removed, here they are.ġ. The workaround is hopefully to wait another few hours while an actual. And if I'm wrong about this directory on windows pcs being similar to what they do with My Documents, then my point about how Wine handles this folder still stands. * - sorry if this isn't the right term for it. But if it is something along these lines, I think the repack should have given the option to put the game files in any directory, or on C:\ rather than a virtual directory*. This involves many assumptions about the repack - the documentation should explain what it does and how it works in case anything must be done differently on other platforms. bin files are non-mountable to this program, and nor can gcdemu mount the directory created on the windows Desktop rather than a. Our main tool for mounting ISOs is gcdemu, but the. (iirc) user/Desktop is one of these weird virtual directories* - and certainly wine defaults to, or has to, to put things in user/Public/Desktop instead, with the user desktop mapping to the actual Linux desktop. Wine either can't parse the altered cd-check instruction, or its reliant on a hard-coded filepath that isn't the same in wine as in Windows. This doesn't work easily on Ubuntu wine. It then might (emphasis on might) have hacked the game exe to look at a folder on the desktop with an autorun.inf file, in place of the CD drive. bin files from a 2-CD version of the game. It sometimes takes 2 or 3 times before the game recognizes it.This installer appears to work by automatically extracting two. You may have to restart the game a couple of times for the CC to show up.Once the game has loaded, go into Create a Family or a lot and see whether your custom content is showing up.Delete the now-empty old Downloads and SavedSims folders from your computer's Desktop. Do the same with the SavedSims folder (if you have content in there) - open it and select all, then cut and paste it into the new SavedSims folder Body Shop made when it ran.ĩ.This will move your downloaded content into the new Downloads folder. Now go into the Downloads folder and PASTE (or CTRL-V) your custom content files. SELECT ALL (or CTRL-A) and CUT (or CTRL-X) to grab everything in that folder.Ĩ. Now go to your computer's Desktop and open the Downloads folder that you put there in step 2.ħ. You will notice that there is a new Downloads folder in there, which Body Shop made when it ran.Ħ. You don't need to do anything within Body Shop, just run the program and close it.ĥ. When Body Shop has finished loading, just click the X at the top right of the program window to close it again. It may seem like nothing's happening as Body Shop starts to load, and it may take several minutes to finish loading fully.Ĥ.If you have never run Body Shop, you can find a shortcut to it under Start - Program Files - EA Games - The Sims 2 (or your newest EP) - The Sims 2 Body Shop.Body Shop is a Maxis-made program - it comes with your game and is already installed if you have the game installed. Do the same thing with the SavedSims folder - cut and paste it to your Desktop.ģ.There should now be no folder called Downloads in your The Sims 2 folder. CUT (or CTRL-X) your Downloads folder and PASTE (or CTRL-V) your Downloads folder to your computer's Desktop. If you have Windows Vista, the The Sims 2 folder is: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Ģ. ![]()
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