I'm really missing Sims 2

"Anthonydyer;c-16752756" wrote:
I never understood why newer computers have difficulty running old games. It is not like I am taking a windows 95 computer and trying to run sims 4 on it. A new computer should be able to run old games real easily. I've had pretty good luck with sims 2 on windows 10. There were a few quirks, but for the most part runs great!

Because the games are designed to work on older technology.

One example of what can happen that makes it fairly obvious how games can have problems when running on newer software.

Kings Quest IV (or at least I'm pretty sure it's the IVth one XD) had a step where you had to light a stick of dynamite in one area and walk to another area to blow something up and there was a timer. The timer wasn't set to the clock however, but to the processor cycling. Newer processors cycle much much much faster on a Windows XP computer than on the one the game was originally designed for. You'd pick up the dynamite light it, take one literal step in game and blow up. Luckily, the game spawns you back where you died, but it took me a good 30 minutes if not longer to do that step when it should have only taken me about 10-15 seconds to do.

Also computers change bits from time to time. Systems started out at 16 bit. Then 32 bit. Then 64 bit. We'll one day likely hit 128 bit systems. And you have to program in backwards compatability. 64 bit software doesn't run 32 bit software unless it's got an emulator in it. It's why you have to choose 32 or 64 bit for Windows XP and Windows 7 downloads.

It mostly comes down to the games and installers not being programmed for newer OS code and/or newer technology, especially graphics cards.

The older a game is the more likely there will be issues installing and/or playing it.