How do I Get a Fresh Game in Sims 2
I reinstalled the game thinking I could get a fresh start that way, but it still loaded into my old neighborhood. It's been years since I've played, so I want to start completely new. I'm guessing I n...
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I don’t know what you have done to do that because when you reinstall the game you have to actively insert your backup in order to keep it, so this sounds very very strange. I can only think of two things here:
1. You didn’t actually reinstall the game, something went wrong.
2. You played with one of the default neighborhoods and you think that they are your old sim game but whatever you did in them when you actually played in them isn’t actually there anymore.
The thing is, your neighborhoods are in your documents -> the sims 2 -> neighborhoods
All of your neighborhoods have separate folders there, and when you reinstall the game the entire The Sims 2-folder is overwritten with the default and you have to manually insert your backed up neighborhood in order to get it back, so your game must not have reinstalled properly.
In order to start a new fresh neighborhood though, you simply click on “create a custom neighborhood” in game. If you want to delete any old neighborhood you can simply do that in game as well, even the maxis ones. So unless your game is corrupt you don’t really have to reinstall it, but if you tried to and something went wrong I would still check that out before playing.
1. You didn’t actually reinstall the game, something went wrong.
2. You played with one of the default neighborhoods and you think that they are your old sim game but whatever you did in them when you actually played in them isn’t actually there anymore.
The thing is, your neighborhoods are in your documents -> the sims 2 -> neighborhoods
All of your neighborhoods have separate folders there, and when you reinstall the game the entire The Sims 2-folder is overwritten with the default and you have to manually insert your backed up neighborhood in order to get it back, so your game must not have reinstalled properly.
In order to start a new fresh neighborhood though, you simply click on “create a custom neighborhood” in game. If you want to delete any old neighborhood you can simply do that in game as well, even the maxis ones. So unless your game is corrupt you don’t really have to reinstall it, but if you tried to and something went wrong I would still check that out before playing.
