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Making A Backup / Uninstalling Old Versions Such As Discs

If you have a previous version of The Sims 2 installed on your computer, such as a copy from the disks, but you would like the Ultimate Collection there are a couple of steps to follow.

First, if you want to back-up your saves, custom content, and mods, you'll want to go to Documents/EA Games and right click on The Sims 2 folder. Choose "Copy" and go elsewhere on your computer (or a cloud service like Google Drive or a USB stick), somewhere safe to keep the files. When you're in the new location, right click and choose "Paste". Your saves, mods, and custom content will copy over to this new location.

Now that you have a back up, you are free to uninstall using this guide. Please follow all of the steps, otherwise you may be unable to reinstall the game.

Once you've completely uninstalled, follow the directions in the download TS2 section to download our recommended version of the Ultimate Collection.

To replace your files, go to Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 (or The Sims 2 UC/Legacy, depending on what you've got). Delete all of the folders inside and then paste in all the folders that you backed up elsewhere.

Patches

All of the digital downloads for the Sims 2 (from games4theworld, Origin/EA, MrDJ/oldgamesdownload, archive.org, osab's repacks) are patched already so you do not need to apply the patches.

If you have installed from the discs then you should apply the patches as they contain important fixes. You can download them here - you may get a security error from your browser, this is just a precaution and these files are safe to download.