Having recently installed XP Home on my PC I now find I cannot install daughter's original SIMS game although the Expansion Packs would seem to be OK- if the original Sims could be installed. I know it cannot as it relies on DOS but is there a patch, file, cheat or whatever to permit the installation, or are all the Exp packs now useless?
Thanks, Tez
tez 0 Junior Poster in Training
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
The original Sims game requires administrator rights in order to run. Are you using a restricted user account on that system? If so, the game will not run within that environment. It has to be installed and run from an account with full administrator provileges.
kingy55 44 Newbie Poster
hi yeah you my need to patch the game or try reinstalling the original sims but take off any expansion packs first
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
No it should work fine. Works fine for me on XP, just remember you have to run it as an admin.
neebski 0 Newbie Poster
Hi, I was wondering how I could patch the game to allow it to be run with out administrative rights. I keep my sisters computer locked down so she does not mess anything up considering she has had several viruses on the thing.
Your help would be greatly appreciated and will get her off my back,
Thanks again!
- Kevin
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
You cant really, its just because it was designed for DOS, not NT.
Most games need admin rights (generally because of copy protection)
neebski 0 Newbie Poster
You cant really, its just because it was designed for DOS, not NT.
Even Sims 2? Sorry for not specifying before. Also is there any word with Sims 3 - will it have this issue?
Thanks again,
-Kevin
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Sims2 and Sims3 are designed for NT, but still require an administrator account due to the copy protection employed.
neebski 0 Newbie Poster
EA really needs to change that... It makes it impossible to deal with!
Well thank you for the help. I guess I'll try and find some sort of work around that I feel comfortable with.
-Kevin
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Its because SecuRom and SafeDisc need to install and communicate with a kernel-level driver for thier anti-copy crapware
Malagosto 0 Newbie Poster
On my computer, I have the sims deluxed editon, and the sims unleashed expansion pack installed. When i click on it to go into it, it will go through all the loading, but right before it lets you start the game, it exits out, and closes. i've tried restarting it, i've tried uninstalling it, then re-installing it, nothing works.
Does anyone know what's wrong?
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Are you an administrator?
What are your system specs?
Ive run Sims Deluxe on XP Sp2/Pentium 4/1gb ram/ATI x600 256mb with no problems
Malagosto 0 Newbie Poster
what's a administrator?
i have windows xp
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
If you are the only user on your computer, you will have an administrator account.
If not, you may have an account with limited privileges to install software, change system settings etc...
Malagosto 0 Newbie Poster
ya, it's a administrator account. I also have 2 other accounts on my computer, but they won't delete, and they don't work.
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