Disk Installation?

I know I’m a little late to this, but in my experience, I have had no problems downloading sims 2 from disc, at least the base game, just follow the onscreen instructions and it should be fine. And after that I would just install expansions after that, but when I tried to do that it wouldn’t terminate download at the very end so the fix that, you need to install the ts2_update which you should be able to find pretty easily and replace the files it says to, I can’t remember which ones those are but after that the expansion packs work fine, I also haven’t patched my game and run it on windows 10 and haven’t had too many problems. Another reason to install it off disc is you have all the files on the disc that if some of your files become corrupted such as the objects.package (which happened to me upon installing expansion) you can just copy and replace the files onto your computer files. I personally just think the discs are a lot less work and more convenient.