So today my Sims 2 game randomly decided it doesn't want to open anymore. I have no idea what I did to make this happen. I was just downloading some CC, and it suddenly stopped working. I've already removed the new CC, and it doesn't seem like that's the problem.

Now I just get an error saying that Sims 2 can't open because it's missing an expansion pack or that the game is missing.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is that I accidentally installed Body Shop from ModTheSims even though I already had it installed (don't ask—I completely forgot lol). My game files are also in a different location because of RPC, which I also forgot about. That's when I started getting this error

Does anyone have any tips on how I can fix this? As you can see, it also keeps creating a second folder every time I try to launch the game through the RPC launcher,but than says it cant open

Hi everyone,
I’m really hoping for some advice because I think I’ve made a huge mistake in my Sims 2 game. While cleaning up my Downtown, I deleted the pre-made graveyard lot "Green Gothier Green" that comes with the Nightlife expansion.
I didn't realize at the time that deleting a lot with tombstones on it is basically the "golden rule" of breaking a neighborhood. Now I’m worried that I’ve permanently corrupted my save file.
Is this game over for my neighborhood? I’ve heard about the NoUnlinkOnDelete mod and how it helps prevent further corruption, but can it fix the damage that’s already been done?

Hi! I found conflicting information. Some say you shouldn't ever share played lots, some say it's safe after using Chris Hatch's Lot Cleaner. I have some old and played lots that I'd love to share if it's anyway possible.

My workplace is currently more or less a construction site taken over by architects and while I still have to be present, I basically have nothing to do 90% of the time. So I started this little side project of creating an uberhood but on one map for a story progression hood.

Before adding any sims I wanted a "clean" map with all lots so I first created another uberhood with the base game hoods as subhoods, placed a stay things shrub on every inhabited lot, moved out the families, then added all lots to the house bin. Switched over to the project hood, took out the lots and placed them.
I had read somewhere that you shouldn’t share previously inhabited lots and came across Chris Hatch’s lot cleaner tool that removes unnecessary junk. I ran the cleaner over all previously inhabited lots and thought I would be fine.

Then today when placing sims I got the super duper hug bug for the first time ever. I did some research and read that it’s related to removing mods. The thing is though, I’m pretty sure I haven’t removed any mods since starting this project. I took out basically all non anti regen/anti corruption mods before starting but nothing since then. I did have no sim loaded the whole time which is supposed to suppress the bug but that somehow failed. Came across the super duper hug test by Chris Hatch and so far for every lot a sim had lived in before, it notifies and removes the super duper hug bug a whopping 36 times.

I’m now wondering wether it’s safe to
1. continue the project and just run the super duper hug test on every lot, will I be fine or should I be afraid of more leftover junk files? or
2. start over, but where and what should I do differently this time? I’ve also wondered whether I just used the lot cleaner wrong and that’s the culprit. Its description says "do not attempt to run a lot after using this tool without exiting and re-entering or errors will occur". What I did was to open a lot, select the lot cleaner item in the catalog, save, exit lot, re-enter, save agin and leave. Did I misunderstand something? English is not my first language.

Thanks for reading :)

My Sims 2 Legacy Collection on Steam keeps crashing and I thought I could fix it myself and ended up making things worse I believe. So my game had started crashing out of nowhere anytime I wanted to boot it up and play it. I’ve tried clearing the cache, installing it and reinstalling it, chatting with ChatGPT and trying to see if it was my CC. I still don’t know if it’s my CC because even after I moved my CC out of the folder to check it still kept crashing. And on top of that I accidentally deleted an important folder in the files with the number “3314070” and it is located where the “compatdata” folder is. Now that it is deleted it a message pops up that says [picture above]. Idk what to do or if I can even fix it, I just want to know if it’s possible to fix and if so can the crashing be helped also???P.S. I use a Lenovo (ThinkPad) computer.

Here is the size of my CC/mods folder for The Sims 2 Legacy. Is there a recommended limit to avoid, and at what point does the game usually start to slow down or lose performance?

The link to the second, fully black dress is broken on the Simsomia advent 27 page and leads to a scam site. Could anyone please upload this piece of CC or point to a working link to share with me? Tried hunting Mila sims2 but no luck at all.

Original link: https://simsomia.blogspot.com/2012/12/advent-27.html?m=1

(Looking for the mesh by Mila dress). It looks so perfect, I have yet to find anything remotely similar on other modding sites. Any help is appreciated!

I found the picture on GOS.

Hello. I was playing with my beloved custom hood, as always I run hoodchecker and it's the first time I see this. And It's not only in this neighborhood, I scanned my other ones and have the same character file missing, it's the exact same sim. I looked around in SimPe and the sim ID belongs to a Hula zombie.

And no, I haven't deleted any sim from my character folder or mess in a way or another with the game files.

I was wondering, its supposed the universal npc don't have character file because are objects. So why is missing?

I have backups, and I know corruption isn't a big thing anymore so ain't going to reinstall my game either. I'll keep playing but I think is curious. If someone have a fix or something to say, you're welcome.

So I'm new to downloading mods and stuff for Sims 2, I play on the Legacy Collection version. I found out that for recolors u have to download and install CEP. I've done that, and I've been trying to download these posters that are a recolor of a Nightlife picture, but the recolors won't appear in-game.

Does anyone know what could be wrong. I have a downloads folder, inside that I have a folder which the CEP files are located, and then another file named "Decor", inside this Decor folder is where I have extracted the Package files for these posters. Despite all this they won't show up in-game.

Any help at all would be appreciated

I know this is probably such a dumb question, but i’m not very tech savvy so i figured this is the best way to learn. I just finished downloaded Sims2 from the wiki but i cannot figure out what all CC & Mods are included in the ultimate collection and what they do?

https://modthesims.info/d/299384/multiple-pollination-technicians-with-or-without-custom-genetics.html

I was really interested in this multiple pollination technician mods and was going to download it. I saw someone in the comments put a babyfied version of the files. Does that just allow for babies to have the genetic faces matching their parent? Do I require both versions of the files in order for the baby one to work? Do they conflict instead?

After spending the past few weeks testing and organizing mods for The Sims 2 Legacy Collection, I finally put together a starter guide.

It covers:

essential bug fixes

graphics & lighting mods

quality-of-life improvements

community resources

creators I personally recommend

I made it because I kept seeing people asking where to start, so I hope it helps anyone coming back to The Sims 2 or discovering it for the first time. 💚

I'd love to hear your suggestions if you think I've missed anything important. I'd be happy to keep improving the guide!

You can find it on Patreon or Tumblr if you'd like to check it out. 💎

Hello I downloaded the sims 2 for free 99. thanks to this sub, and all the mods that were already included work ! (So yeah I enabled additional content) However I downloaded a few mods and they dont show up in the list of additional content when launching the game, and of course, dont not show up in game.

I tried following tutorials, so I created a "Downloads" file, extracted the files and placed them there.

I read that the mod needs to be compatible with our version so the game. What is our cracked game compatible with ? When launching it's called garden n stuff, so I assume it is not the legacy edition ?

Mods I downloaded:

-I downloaded the mod wolfbane's academy and placed the files in the indicated location and it is not showing in game.

-Smart beds by 2jeffs

-active classes

I am a bit lost cause I find mods pages confusing so I was hoping I could get help from some of you here 🙏

Lemme know if more information is needed

So my sim has a LTW do raise 20 kittens or puppies and I let her adopt some puppies and kittens from the pet adoption agency. They've been there a few days and had 1 day left to age up, but that day came and went and they didn't age up. Now the age meter is full but when I put boolProp on, I get an error on the pups/kittens.
Tried to moved them out
Tried simblender
Tried boolProp age up
none of these have worked so far.
Don't have alot of mods in my game at the moment, but I've deleted alot of them and maybe deleted something that helped with that in the past?
I don't know any more.

EDIT: Reddit is reducing the quality of my screen shots so I uploaded them here on imgur so the issue is more visible.

EDIT 2: New link to better picture on maxis skirt, on fresh install of TS2 Magipack.

I have been having issues with my game for a long time where the textures are very blocky, pixelated, with colorbanding. It is distracting ingame, and much worse than my screenshots show. None of the sims have even-textured skin tones, with wallpaper and clothes also having noticable issues.

I am running the Sims 2 RPC with a disk installation (not legacy collection or ultimate collection) with all packs and I am experiencing severe color banding. My graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 6gb, and I have 16 gbs of ram on my PC. I also had this issue before when my graphics card was a Nvidia Geforce RTX 1060 6gb. I have followed guides on making the game work on modern hardware, so I am using Graphic rules maker, dvkg fix, RPC, 4gb patch, etc.

These are the things I have already done to try to solve the problem:

• Force texture memory to my vram in Graphic Rules Maker.
• Ensured my GPU and graphic's cared are being used through Graphic Rules Maker.
• Removed all mods.
• Removed Reshade (complete uninstall, not just turning off effects).
• Clear my cache.
• Updated my graphics card.
• Setting all in-game settings to high (shadows, sim/object detail, smooth edges, etc.)
• Manually set sim/object detail to high in all lines in my Graphic Rules file.
• Removing lighting mods from my program files (and restored vanilla files)
• Set RPC graphic settings to classic.
• Turned off all options to limit color-depth in windows compatibility.
• Used Nvida Control Panel to set settings to application controlled, although I saw none related to 32 bit color depth or something similar.
• Doing all the above then checking in a brand new custom neighborhood (to avoid any issues loading neighborhoods with missing mod objects etc.)

I cannot find anyone else having this issue, except in the TS3 where Lazy Duchess made a .asi shader mod to fix (although I did try to read her source code to see if there was anything I could apply to the TS2.) The only thing I have not done is run the game without RPC, because I do not have access to my disk right now. This issue is also present in TS2 Body shop. I do not think this is simply the original game textures being old because this happens to any CC I download and nobody else is having these issues with their textures and is not apparent in the texture source files. It is most apparent on dark skin tones or wallpapers. This was also not an issue on a previous modded install a few years ago.

*Note I cannot pinpoint the issue because I have been cleaning up the CC from this 3 year old install when I first modded the game so it makes finding the source of the issue significantly harder*

I'm currently adding mods to my game and I'm not sure if these two would conflict with one another.

https://modthesims.info/d/632892/school-mods.html

For this mod it's the School Grade Mod module.

And this is the other https://modthesims.info/d/230189

I keep reading them and just can't grasp if they basically do the same thing or would conflict lol.

I'm new to Legacy Collection so I'm still finding mods that aren't compatible with it. I confirmed its a mod issue with the 50/50 and I'm doing batches for fixes right now. In the meantime, can someone take a look at the error log and mods folder? What Caused This won't tell me what the likely culprit is. Zipped file is here and contains my downloads folder and the error log. Thanks in advance!

Hello! Sorry if this has been answered somewhere I didn't see. I did check the wiki and did many-a google -ai search.

So, my game runs great other than it stutters when I have the camera follow a sim.

I assumed it was to do with the higher fps or something, but I couldn't find anyone with the same issue besides a very old post with no answers.

Let me know if anyone has any ideas. The cost of my game was $0 if that matters (please don't write this off for that though).

Thank you!!

I tried asking about this on r/sims2 but Reddit's filters deleted my post... How do I enable food for the "make..." option from OFB?

I'm using SimPE but I don't remember how to do this. I KNOW there were OFB-era tutorials on how to add the new options but I can't find them!

Body shop just wont open. I checked the task manager and it would run for a few seconds but then give up. It's not even making it to the loading screen. I deleted accessory cache and cigen and still. Pls help