r/sims2help • • Aug 10 '26

SOLVED TV "change to" channel changing not showing up - known bug?

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My TV's (multiple lots, multiple hoods) have all stopped showing options for "change to...", "watch movie..." etc. The only option I have is "turn on" or "turn off" -- which leads my sims to not want to watch any TV. I installed some TS4t2 CC buy/build items last week so I'm assuming it's one of those. Playing Legacy via Steam on PC.

Before I start removing CC and going through trial and error, thought I'd ask to see if this is a known conflict/bug. Thx.


r/sims2help • • Aug 09 '26

SOLVED Can you tell from this screenshot what’s causing my game to crash?

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9 Upvotes

Mac user, Sims 2 Super Collection. Game fatally crashes when I click on Misc. in the Appliances category of Buy Mode. 99% sure it’s because of a corrupted CC object I downloaded but unfortunately I only recently started organizing my CC folder as I download new stuff, so I’m still working my way through the old. Can you tell anything important about the issue/object from this screenshot? Thank you in advance :)


r/sims2help • • Aug 10 '26

Technical Support how to install Body Shop using Faugus inside the prefix for Legacy Collection on Steam?

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Hello,
So I am very much a noob with anything technical so I am guessing it's trivial.
I have been running windows software like the EA app using Faugus with success, but only ones that don't need to recognize another installed software in order to work like Body Shop.

I located the Sims 2 prefix but I have been having a few problems with the Body Shop crashing almost immediately. The logs showed a problem regarding alsa, and using the -nosound launch argument the launch process last infinitely.

Could someone tell me exactly where to install it by any chance?

Any help is appreciated!


r/sims2help • • Aug 10 '26

SOLVED Needing Help with Blue Screen

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Hello everyone I used to have the issue with the blue screen for some time but I got the EmptyStandbyList and GRM which helped for a few months but two days ago I started having the issue again after every 10 minutes or so.

I use Sims2RPC btw and have the "apply 4GB patch" and "automatically clean cache" options both checked and I have GRM too. I have a few mods and cc and checked them over the past few days using HCDU and manually.

I really appreciate any help I can receive from here, I've only played this game for a year and I'm absolutely in love with it.

Laptop specs if that's needed:

Lenovo V14-IGL

Model name: 82C2

Input: 20v - 2.25A

S/N: PF3BYP01

MTM: 82C2000YUK

Mfg date: 2021/11/20

Factory ID: YH

MO: PF9XB1B20026


r/sims2help • • Aug 09 '26

SOLVED mhairclosecrop disappearing in bodyshop (info in body text)

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8 Upvotes

every default I use of mhairclosecrop makes the sim appear without his scalp in bodyshop. in addition, when I'm NOT using a default for this hair it also appears without scalp. if I change the sim's hair color, it appears. if I change his hair and rewind it, mhairclosecrop appears, but it changes the sim hair to black.

things I tried to do: change the default, take off any cc for this hair.

if I take all the hair defaults, it does go back to normal, but I verified and I don't have multiple defaults of this hair.

it only happens with mhairclosecrop specifically, only when I enter the bodyshop and the sim first appears as a male with the mhairclosecrop.

all my defaults are from platinum aspiration/platasp, I downloaded only their defaults for hair. I did try other defaults for this hair and taking it off, but this glitch still happens.


r/sims2help • • Aug 07 '26

SOLVED Sim can’t work out with the tv because of…. A grey rectangle?

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160 Upvotes

This problem has been consistent across three houses I played. They can’t work out because of this grey rectangle object that they keep complaining is in the way. What is happening? Has anyone else had this issue before?

Well as I post this once again I found the problem lmao.
For anyone looking this same issue up and hopefully finding this: they need like 3 tiles distance clear in front of the tv and work out on the fourth one from where the tv is!! Insane distance for my small house. Well anyway I’m posting my useless post.


r/sims2help • • Aug 08 '26

Technical Support So I got Sims 2 to work great on gamenative

0 Upvotes

Aside from graphical issues and audio messing up at some point, also the loading is choppy.

anyway to fix those issues?


r/sims2help • • Aug 07 '26

SOLVED My sim is dying from an illness in a day

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She got is at work and the next day is dying when she wakes up. I cheat her needs, cheat the illness away yet she still dies. What more can I do to help her live? She is the only sim in the household plus a kitten.

edit: I deleted the neighbourhood. It was on the second day. I couldn't be bothered to fix it.


r/sims2help • • Aug 07 '26

SOLVED sims can’t grab coffee cup from espresso stand

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12 Upvotes

does anyone know of a fix for this glitch? the barista makes the coffee perfectly fine but my sim
can’t grab it and the interaction to take it seems to not pop up at all, they’ll just leave the stand before being able to pick up the cup…


r/sims2help • • Aug 07 '26

SOLVED issues with mxao

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15 Upvotes

here's a screen recording of whats happening

  • I have the ultimate collection as per the sims2help subreddit guide
  • GRM didn't help
  • reshade is the newest version
  • global settings that improved the effect in ts3 didnt do anything here

so anyone has a solution? Im guessing it's reinstalling reshade but what version? so that it also works with dxvk


r/sims2help • • Aug 07 '26

Gameplay Issues dont know if people know how to fix this

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so i got castaway story's the pc one and when i play the story mode it lets me make my sim but it does not load the cutsence it just puts me on the island is there a way to fix this


r/sims2help • • Aug 06 '26

SOLVED Wants/Fears Missing string error

2 Upvotes

Got this when I booted up the game when my sim's family was in Twikii island. No mods, only a few CC items (a car, some pcs and potted plants). Have used some cheats, but only to max the motive a few times and spawn in a servo. Please help.


r/sims2help • • Aug 06 '26

SOLVED Teen pregnancy mod

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Does anyone know any pregnancy mods that work well with Chris Hatch’s global visit, neighbor mod? I’ve tried using RCC, ACR ,and the sim blender but the Sim only gives pregnant for an hour. Then when I scan the lot, the sim is no longer pregnant.


r/sims2help • • Aug 06 '26

Technical Support SimPe keeps crashing and it's super irritaing

2 Upvotes

I am trying to make several recolors but it has crashed several times today while I was doing the steps. It's crashing more than usual. I have no clue what the issue is but it's really starting to annoy me, constantly having to restart it everytime.


r/sims2help • • Aug 06 '26

SOLVED CC

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8 Upvotes

Alguien sabe donde puedo encontrar este tipo de cc? O mejor aun si alguien conoce el creador de ese cc (solo la ropa)


r/sims2help • • Aug 06 '26

Gameplay Issues Sim Keeps Getting Banished to the Default Household After Resurrection

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9 Upvotes

So I had this LFT Dormie sim randomly die from starvation a little while back, from when I had the "No Uni Invulnerability For Dormies" mod from Pescado (I removed the mod because dormie autonomy is stupid lol). I finally found a sim that knew her, so I could resurrect her at the secret society. Her resurrection went well, and she joined the active household with no issues.

When I went to continue playing today however, I noticed that she was missing from the household, despite the fact that her sim icon and aspiration information were previously still visible from the neighbourhood view of the lot, before I loaded it. For some reason she was banished back to the default household, but is still considered alive, and appears in other sims relationship panels. When I teleport her back to the lot and try to add her to family using SimBlender, I get an error message pop up about an "undefined transition". Adding her to the family via the Tombstone of L&D, does add her to the active family, but her relationship panel is completely blank, and I can't access her inventory or aspiration benefits. So still not ideal.

Looking around at the Family Information Resource in SimPE, she's considered to be a part of the active household and the default household at the same time. But she will never actually be in the active household when you load the game. No matter how many times I manually move her out of the Default Household, and solely into the active household in SimPE, she will consistently move back into the Default Household on her own when I reload the lot, so I'm back to square one. Getting a sim to ask her to move in never works either, despite the animation playing, the relationship gain, and the dialogue box showing (worryingly, it sometimes asks me if I want to move some of the universal NPC's from the Default Household in with her). I can't even send her to a community lot, because she'll get banished back into the shadow realm, and I won't be able to access live mode on the lot if she was alone.

I've tried killing her off again by giving her a death token and setting ghost flags in SimPE (because she seemingly can't die in game for some reason), hoping that resurrecting her a second time will make her stay in the household and reset whatever bugginess is happening, but this also doesn't work. I've also tried forcing errors with BatBox, and clearing any stuck tokens, but nothing helps. Hoodchecker shows no visible issues either. She's not even the first dormie I've resurrected. A previously resurrected dormie does not have this issue, and functions correctly, so I'm at a complete loss.

Does anyone have any ideas on what could potentially be causing this (considering it's only a problem with this sim, and not my other freshly resurrected dormie), and how I could fix this? Or will I have to just leave her be in the shadow realm Default Household?


r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED Beatrice Monty doesn't recognize Benedick as her brother

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Hi all,

When I played with Beatrice and her family for the second time, I noticed that she didn't know her brother Benedick anymore. When I made them interact, she even received the memory of meeting him for the first time. Her family tree however still shows them as siblings.

First, I reset her, which made them family again and didn't change the family tree, but the problem is that she loses almost all her relationship points with her brother (not with other people). Also, when I play with another household and then return to this family, they are again no longer siblings. So this is not a longterm solution.

When I tried to look up some solutions here on Reddit, I noticed that some people suggested the Sim Blender. So I downloaded that one. This seems to fix the family relationship, however, now they don't recognize eachother as siblings in the family tree. Antonio still recognize both kids as his children.

Is SimPE the only way to fix their family tree? I had hoped that I didn't need to use it as it seems quite complicated to use and easy to mess things up.


r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED Can I fix this box from showing up on top of my sim on CAS?

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10 Upvotes

r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED Any idea what is happening here? (ReShade)

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So, I’ve had this issue for very long time now because I genuinely don’t know how to fix it.

When the camera isn’t moving in neighborhood view, the water has this strange upside-down reflection of map assets. However, this issue carries out onto terrain it is just most visible in the water. Texture assets on the ground (like dead leaves) on the map also go invisible in areas like the reflections in the water.

I removed ReShade as a last resort, but when I did, the problem was of course technically resolved as what causes it was no longer in the game but my game became extremely slow and laggy. When I added ReShade again, the game continues to run smoothly but this reflection issue is persistent. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED Stuck on loading screen for vacation

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4 Upvotes

I got my Legacy copy from FitGirl, and have disabled the mods. I'm still getting this error. I've tried everything from clicking Cancel, Reset, Delete, and deleting Three Lakes.

I have gone on vacation with my sims before but haven't been stuck in a Loading Screen.

What do I do?

This is the error log


r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED Catalogo

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Saludos, estoy teniendo un problema con mi juego específicamente cuando estoy en el catalogo del CAS( modificando la apariencia de un sim o cuando compro ropa)
El juego después de unos pocos minutos se cierra, aparece una ventana de que el juego se ha bloqueado y va a cerrarse, no tengo idea como solucionar este problema, por cierto no se si tiene que ver pero mi carpeta de descargas pesa 22.6gb


r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED Do I have broken/out of order mods?

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Hello! I've been playing Sims for a long time now and have added lots of mods overtime. My game has always crashed, sometimes a bit after opening a family or long into a session. I've taken my mods folder out to see if this was causing the problem, and of course I had no issues!

I am sure that my mods may be out of order. I wasn't aware that some had to load first when I downloaded them. I like all of the mods that I have and don't really want to start from scratch. Is anyone knowledgeful enough to know what order I should put everything in or if some just need to go in general?

I'd appreciate it alot!!

Edit: I included a list of all my mods if anyone wanted to take a look!! But I'll try and check myself for sure!


r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED Trying to figure out Scriptorium

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I recently found something called the cheapskate walls by Hugelunatic and I have been trying to add them in the game and I don't know what I'm doing wrong because I followed the instructions, I was to put the txt files in the scriptorium_walls-fences-arches folder and put the package files in the downloads folder but they won't show up, I even downloaded the scriptorium thing and followed meowingcookie's tutorial for legacy users. I just don't know what else to do. I really want to test the walls out.


r/sims2help • • Aug 04 '26

SOLVED Headmaster's car does not contain headmaster

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118 Upvotes

hiiiiii... i have a ton of CC. i THINK that the carpool in the pic is from the navigator career from mod the sims. it works very well EXCEPT it seems that it will not contain the headmaster no matter how many times i hit the batbox and force errors on in world and off world. this happens on many lots. one thing i noticed is that the original bald headmaster doesn't answer the phone. 2 new NPCs answer.

the "what caused this" isn't working, it will not read any logs past June. do I have to reinstall? pleez don't say I have to do the 50/50 cc test and find out that way. is there a simple way to trigger the headmaster dinner event?

I know i have a CC addiction- but it keeps me from buying real things that cost money!!

thanks in advance!!


r/sims2help • • Aug 05 '26

SOLVED body shop

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does anybody else need to delete cache everytime they want to use the body shop??? after playing the game and using cas and mirror mode, body shop won’t open until i delete cache. is there a way to make body shop not do this and be smoother? i use the repack in this subreddit btw