Update: Several readers have reported that this giveaway is for the Windows version only. To fix common issues, refer to this guide (such as shadow boxes and resolution.Let's start the week off right - with a freebie.įor a limited time, you can get The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (Win/Mac) for $0. There will now be a Sims 2 icon on your desktop! Right click it and select run as administrator to run the game (always run the game as an administrator). Go into the Redist folder and install “ dxwebsetup.exe” by double clicking on it and going through the setup. Click on install and wait for the game to finish installing.Ĥ. Open the folder called “Game Files” found inside of the extracted folder and double click on the Setup.exe file. 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. This installer appears to work by automatically extracting two.
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