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How to Register The Sims Medieval to Origin
Registering The Sims Medieval game and its Expansion Pack to your Origin account via the Sims 3 website If you already own The Sims Medieval and / or the Pirates & Nobles Expansion Pack, and wish to register them on your Origin account, please follow the steps below. Please note, these are 20 digit codes – if your code has 16 digits, it’s for bonus content. You can find instructions on how to register bonus content below. 1. Go to http://www.thesims3.com and make an account if you do not already have one. If you already have an account, skip to step 2. If you already have an Origin account, please use the same email and password to register on http://www.thesims3.com. 2. Once you are a registered member of http://www.thesims3.com, login to your account so that you can then register your game codes. 4. Click on the My Page tab. 5. Then click the My Account tab. 6. Click on Register a Game. 7. Enter the product code for the expansion pack or stuff pack. 8. Click the green Register button. To redeem bonus content codes open the game and click on the options button on the main screen: Choose "Redeem Code" and enter your code in the pop-up menu:The Sims Medieval: Windows 8/10 Compatibility and Troubleshooting FAQ
We are aware of some compatibility issues affecting The Sims Medieval and its expansions on WIndows 8/10 PCs. These issues can be fixed by downloading and reinstalling updated game files through Origin. Note:If you have Pirates and Nobles you will need to perform these steps for that as well. For physical disc versions: Uninstall The Sims Medieval from your PC. Enter the registration code that came with your copy of the game into Origin by following these steps. Download and install the game through Origin. You will need to agree to a new EULA. For Digital versions: Uninstall The Sims Medieval from your PC. Download and reinstall the game through Origin. You will need to agree to a new EULA. Source: http://help.ea.com/en/article/the-sims-medieval-and-windows-8-compatibility/ My game keeps crashing. How can I prevent that? I can't install the game because .NET 4 requires Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), but I'm on Service Pack 2 (SP2). The patch isn't installing for me. How can I help the dev team resolve my issues? I'm stuck in Kingdom Mode. Or, I'm stuck in Furnish Mode. How do I get back to Live Mode? I have another problem. Where can I find more information? I have problems installing. I'm getting CRC errors during installation. When I start The Sims Medieval, nothing happens. Or: I don't see The Sims Medieval window. I have a Gameplay question, or I'm stuck! How to register The Sims Medieval to Origin 1. My game keeps crashing. How can I prevent that? It likely has to do with your graphics card. Try turning down the graphics settings in the options menu. Also, make sure to turn reflections off. Note: You need at least 256K of VRAM to play. Anything less than that will cause problems. You can find more tips at the official customer support message boards, where EA technical help answers questions directly: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/forums/show/3967.page Back to Top 2. I can't install the game because .NET 4 requires Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), but I'm on Service Pack 2 (SP2). .NET 4 requires Windows XP Service Pack 3 to be installed. You can update to Service Pack 3 for free. For more details: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help/learn-how-to-install-windows-xp-service-pack-3-sp3 Back to Top 3. The patch isn't installing for me. For PC players, we recommend downloading the game through Origin rather than continuing to use the disk version, as the digital download does not require the patch. PC disk patch:http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims/patches/TheSimsMedievalPatch_2.0.113.00001_Update.exe For Mac players, both the disk and digital download versions require the patch. If you are having trouble updating your copy of The Sims Medieval on Mac to enjoy the Pirates and Nobles expansion, please see the additional instructions below. Mac disk patch: http://lvlt.thesims.cdn.ea.com/sims/u/f/simsmedieval/mac/To-6847-2.0.114.00001.tgz Mac digital download patch: http://lvlt.thesims.cdn.ea.com/sims/u/f/simsmedieval/mac/To-6847-2.0.114.00107.tgz Download the appropriate patch from the links above. Once the file has downloaded, open the .tgz file to extract the patch application. Open the patch application. You may encounter a message that the application is from an unknown developer. If so, continue to step 4. If not, skip to step 9. Open System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Click the lock in the lower left corner to make changes. Under Allow apps downloaded from:, select Anywhere. When prompted to confirm, select Allow from Anywhere. Exit System Preferences and open the patch application again. Review and accept the patch terms. In the window that appears, open the Applications folder. Open The Sims Medieval folder, and select The Sims Medieval icon. Click Update in the lower right corner. We recommend that you revert your Security & Privacy settings after the patch has been applied. Back to Top 4. How can I help the dev team resolve my issues? Just click Contact Us to reach one of our Game Advisors. You'll connect with an EA advisor who can examine your game files and work to find a solution. Back to Top 5. I'm stuck in Kingdom Mode. Or, I'm stuck in Furnish Mode. How do I get back to Live Mode? You must be on a quest to re-enter the Live Mode. So take a quest! Back to Top 6. I have another problem. Where can I find more information? Visit the official customer support message boards, where EA technical help answers questions directly: The Sims Medieval on Answer HQ The Sims Medieval EA forums Back to Top 7. I have problems installing. Get advice and assistance from the experts in our community! The Sims Medieval on Answer HQ (you are already here 😉 ) The Sims Medieval EA forums Back to Top 8. I'm getting CRC errors during installation. You may have a faulty disk. Try exchanging at your place of purchase. If you still have the same error after trying a new disk, your DVD drive may not fully support dual-layer DVD disks. Back to Top 9. When I start The Sims Medieval, nothing happens. Or: I don't see The Sims Medieval window. When you start The Sims Medieval, it opens The Sims Medieval launcher. If you switch to another program while the launcher is loading, it may be hidden behind other windows on your desktop. The launcher has no task bar icon, so it's not always easy to find. You can click on the launcher in the system tray (clock area), minimize windows until you find the launcher window, or click Alt+Tab to switch windows until you find the launcher. In the launcher, click the round green "Play" button to launch The Sims Medieval. Back to Top 10. I have a Gameplay question, or I'm stuck! You can find a lot of answers in the Lessons Book. Go to the Options Menu (...) in the bottom left corner of the screen, and select Lessons. Back to Top[The Sims 2 - Ultimate Collection] Known Issues - Please read first
Please read this unofficial FAQ before opening a thread. How to get The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection ? Do I have to uninstall my previous installation ? I don't have a neighborhood to pick from after starting the game I get a screen for Fun with Pets and also a mention of Sims 2 Garden and Mentions but nothing about Ultimate Collection My game is not responding Where can I find the body shop ? How can I open the game in windowed mode? Does UC run on a Mac ? Does UC run on Windows 8/8.1/10 ? My Game doesn't start at all My Game is crashing in CAS Graphic cards and Problems with Resolution The launcher does not respond Faulting Application Path error Moving old Store edition neighborhoods to Ultimate
Ending code support for The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection
Starting October 11, 2018, free copies of The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection will no longer be available. Why the change? A few years ago, we ran a limited-time promotion offering free codes for The Sims 2 Ultimate Edition. Since that promotion ended, we’ve gotten a lot of contacts asking for codes for the collection. We’ve done our best to support these contacts in the past, but we have reached a point where we no longer can. What if I have the game but I’m having issues with it? Let us know! We are more than happy to help with any account or technical issues relating to your copy of The Sims 2. What other ways can I play The Sims? You can get The Sims 3 or 4 through Origin, or grab The Sims 4 on Xbox One or PlayStation 4. Or access both games through the Vault for Origin Access. To play on the go, check out The Sims Mobile. Check out the full article on EA Help for more information.
The Sims 2 - Moving Store Edition saves into Ultimate Collection
This tutorial is intended to help players who have moved their saved games from The Sims 2 Store Edition into The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection. As such, it only applies to The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection or disk installations of The Sims 2 that do not include The Sims 2 Store Edition. To offer a brief explanation, saved games that were created (or even just loaded) with The Sims 2 Store Edition are not compatible with an earlier version of The Sims 2, which includes The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection. Since Ultimate Collection does not include Store Edition, those saved games are not backwards compatible. This tutorial will explain the process of making The Sims 2 Store Edition saved games compatible with The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection or The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff, by editing neighborhoods using SimPE. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SimPE IS A FAN-MADE, 3RD PARTY PROGRAM NOT DEVELOPED OR ENDORSED BY EA. PLEASE USE YOUR BEST DISCRETION IF YOU DECIDE TO UTILIZE THIS TOOL. SimPE 0.75.69 can be downloaded here: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3502039/ Before editing any files, it is highly recommended that you make a backup, so you can restore it in case something goes wrong. By default, The Sims 2 user data is located in Documents\EA Games. Copy the entire Sims 2 folder to a safe place outside of that folder. In case something goes wrong, you can simply delete the one that gets messed up (do not paste the backup over it), restore the backup and start over. 1. Launch SimPE. In the top left corner, go to Tools – Neighborhood – Neighborhood Browser. 2. Click on the first neighborhood, then select Open. In the bottom left corner, you might see SimPE loading various Sims 2 resources. If so, wait until it loads everything to make sure the program does not freeze. 3. You should see two windows (Resource Tree and Resource List) as well as a list of buttons on the bottom, one of which should be Hex. (If those do not show up, click on Extra in the top left corner, then go to Preferences – SimPE Settings and select Reset Layout.) 4. In Resource Tree, click on ID Number. In Resource List, click on ID Number again. At the bottom, click on Hex to access SimPE’s Hex Editor. You should see a table with a bunch of numbers. 5. Look for 1f. There should only be one instance of it. Click on it, then under Values/Navigation, in the Byte field, change 0x1f to 0x11. 6. On the right, click Commit, then on the top left, click on File and select Save. 7. Go back to the Neighborhood Browser (Tools - Neighborhood – Neighborhood Browser) and click on the same neighborhood you have just edited. In the Neighborhood Browser, there is an Options section with a drop-down menu, containing every sub-neighborhood attached to the main neighborhood. 8. You will need to repeat the process for all sub-neighborhoods. These may include, but are not limited to: Universities, Downtowns, Shopping Districts, Pets, Weather, Exotic Destinations, Hobbies and Magic. Some of these (such as Pets and Weather) are hidden during gameplay, however they are added to every neighborhood by default. However many of them are, each one has to be fixed. Once you are done with one neighborhood, move on to the next one. Repeat until all of them show up, and do not forget that each of them very likely has sub-neighborhoods attached.
The Sims Complete Collection on Origin
Recently I've purchased The Sims 1 Complete Collection and I got really upset when I realized tha EA is being so neglect with the most successfull game that became this franchise so big. I tried to register the game in my Origin Account, and as I imagined, the serial was not valid. So I started a chat in US Origin (I'm brazilian) and asked for help to register the game in my account. In the begining I thought I would be successfull in this process, until the moment when the clerk said that the registration wouldn't be possible because the game is very old. I answered saying that Origin owns older games than The Sims 1 (SimCity 2000, Theme Hospital...), and the clerk was unable to explain the availablity of these games. So then, I started observing my game and I realized that it was produced in 2008. I notified the clerk about this, about Sims 2 also. I got lots of criteria about the fact that "The Sims Complete Collection is too old", until the clerk guided me to create a topic in Origin forum about this question to call attention of the developers. Instantly I looked for it to find answers about my issue. After I searched topics in forum, I thought about what the clerk has told me "all attention of the developers" e asked him about it. He said that a post in the forum could convince (or not) the developers to provide The Sims 1 in Origin. He also offered me The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (I already own this one), saying that it was better than TS1. I thought a little disrispect, once my first question was about how to register The Sims Complete Collection in my account. After 3 hours chatting trying to understand why the game will not be available on Origin to date, I concluded what was mentioned at the beginning of the publication. Since now... I'm a big fan of The Sims series and I am REALLY disapointed about the way EA treats this classic game that gave birth to everything we have today. 😞Welcome to the Project Rene Discussion Board
Sul Sul! In case you missed it, today we officially confirmed that the team at Maxis is working on the next generation of The Sims, a game and creative platform currently titled Project Rene. That’s right, Project Rene is in development, and if you don’t believe us, go back and watch the Behind The Sims Summit stream. Currently, our teams are working on exciting projects across The Sims 4, The Sims Mobile, The Sims FreePlay and Project Rene and we can’t wait until the day we can share even more details. Until then, we wanted to make sure you have a new space here to discuss Project Rene. Enjoy! (We understand that you may have ideas related to Project Rene content, features, and improvements. The Sims team cannot use your unsolicited ideas and we have to delete them so please do not submit your ideas to us.)
[Workaround] Running The Sims 2 on Modern PCs
Sul sul, The Sims 2 requires some modifications to the graphics rules to allow it to run on modern machines (meaning most PC's or laptops released post 2010). These rules assume you have at least 2GB of free system memory (RAM) available for The Sims 2 to use and allows your graphics driver to manage video memory usage. After installing Sims 2 Ultimate Collection, run notepad (or your preferred text editor) as an Admin and use it to open : [Game Install Directory]\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config\Graphics Rules.sgr Replace line 204: boolProp enableDriverMemoryManager false with boolProp enableDriverMemoryManager true boolProp disableTexMemEstimateAdjustment true Then add the following line 46: seti textureMemory 2048The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection - 31/10/17 update
Hi Simmers, As some of you have already noticed, we have released an update for The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection today. This update is to bring the game in-line with other Origin titles and improve the installation process. The new version also resolves issues experienced by players in Thailand, Japan and China. Hope you keep enjoying the game! -MaiThe sims 1 on Windows 10 (please sticky this
Dear All Sims 1 fans, Many of you out there are aware of Sims 1 not supported on Windows 10. This is not only sad, but EA no longer supports this game either. That is their choice, but in my opinion, this game is historical and should be preserved for future generations. Many older games are getting lost due to the popularity of new games. So people ask, why should we preserve the past games, since their graphics are horrible and gameplay boring? This is what most newer gamers ask, but those of us that lived when the games came out as new, either feel nostalgia or a love for the older games. I also believe this game shows historical information for future generations to show how gaming evolved. In fact, there are many facts about the sims 1 that i know personally. I know this game was very hard for Will Wright to make, when he first worked on it. I have a sheet with a interview with Will Wright from a letter from long ago, which i will donate in the future to a museum of video gaming, if i ever find one that shows physical items. Originally, The sims 1 was gonna be called "DOLLHOUSE", and in the interview, this is shown. Will Wright then decided to name it "the people simulator". Eventually, the sims name came to fruition. The name means Simulated People, which was another possible name of the game could of been. Over 1 million copies of the game were sold in many countries around the world. Also, the game was not like any other's that came out back then. It was a new idea, and very innovative. Now, I believe older games should be historically preserved for those in the future, so those of you that can no longer play Sims 1 due to either being forced to download Windows 10 (like i was), or have to get windows 10 on a new computer, your in luck. Someone on the official forums of the sims 4 made a mod that fixes the .EXE and allows the game to be played on windows 10. I wish to post this here, for like me, people out there wish to play the game for the love of it, and preserving the past. I also believe in what some of the preserving groups are doing to past video games and to preserving them. As many of these games were actually new when i 1st seen them. If we don't preserve the past, mistakes of the future will repeat again and again, even with cultural history and heritage. Here is the original post where i found the information about how to get sims 1 to work on windows 10: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/848531/help-getting-the-sims-complete-collection-to-run-on-windows-10 This method also works for the sims retail disk versions also. I believe this will help those with issues playing the sims 1 on windows 10 pc's. Note that i do not know if this will work with non-english versions. I tried the file personally and it seemed to work fine, as far as i can see. I am only posting this here to help those who seek help playing the sims 1 on a windows 10 pc. I would like to thank the person who made the file, but there name appears deleted off the sims 4 forums. Instructions: 1. Download the .EXE here: [Removed] NOTE: Since this was removed, please refer to above link from the sims forums. 2. Go into your old Sims 1 file, in windows 10, under C://Program Files (x86) > Maxis > Sims. Rename the sims.exe file as Sims.old in case the new file does not work. 3. Move the new sims.exe file to same folder as above. 4. Launch the game. You may need to run it in compatibility mode. 5. Hopefully it works. I hope this helps others who have issues with sims 1 and Windows 10. Good luck! I hope this also preserves the game for future generations. DISCLAIMER: I did not make this file, nor am i affiliated with the individual(s) who made it. I believe in the preservation of older games for cultural information and art styles shown in past games. This topic should be stickyed if a moderator finds that it can, so it can help others with getting the sims 1 to work, for the love of the game, and keeping the preservation of the past. Many games of the past have been lost to time, and this is sad. Although considered a new medium, video gaming history is being lost as newer technology keeps changing. Since it is hard to preserve the past, whether it be written documentation, historical records, or in the case of video games, video game medium, it should be saved. This is why i support organizations like the VGHI, and others like them. They are trying to preserve the games for future generations. If your interested in this, please look at the link below in the sources links . Sadly, the more the Operating systems and console styles change, the more harder it is to "archive" older software and games for preservation. I support the preservation of our cultural older games and the impact they have had on our society. This is why games like the sims 1 should be preserved. It shows cultural aspects of the late 20th century and early 21st century. Historians in the future will have a hard time deciphering how a culture interacted, and this game will help them decipher it. Thanks for reading and Happy Simming! ~Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_%28video_game%29 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/the-quest-to-save-todays-gaming-history-from-being-lost-forever/ http://vghi.org/ http://www.saa.org/publicftp/public/educators/02_past.html https://books.google.com/books?id=n_wcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=how+a+future+historian+may+act&source=bl&ots=xiYNd7YgX6&sig=JZp4bIYMNB8kupkbKLHtwgUsYTc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju🤭vJw-TJAhUUWWMKHWFgCs0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=how%20a%20future%20historian%20may%20act&f=false
