Sims 2 Ultimate Collection - Crashing

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As the title says, I recently installed through the EA App, the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection which I was so looking forward to playing as on my OS, I've been unable to use my original game discs to play the game due to compatibility issues, and it's crashing. A lot.

Major issues occur during any transition, be that from a lot to a community lot, from CAS to the neighbourhood view. I'm at my wits end as I've tried everything I can to ensure my graphics card is recognised etc. I was under the impression that this new collection was able to be played without issue on newer PCs with newer OS without having to play in compatibility mode.

Can anyone let me know if they've been having these issues and if they've found any fix for it. I wanted to game for nostalgic reasons but if I can't make it work properly without all the crashing I'll just play Sims 3.

Thanks for any help. My DX Diag details are attached.

ladygray01 · Answer

UC wasn't updated at all, it's just a complete collection of the game with packs. There are a lot of tweaks that are needed to make it run properly- a patch, graphics files edits, sometimes mods. I got all of what I needed a decade ago when I installed it and backed it all up when I switched computers. I'm not sure where I got all of it, but googling the issue with things like "graphics file changes" and "4gb patch" should help turn up what you need.

Legacy Edition, the one they are selling now, is the one that was updated. It's got a lot of new bugs at the moment though. They released one patch already.

jimels1 · Answer

I think they meant legacy edition. But they should make sure it works before its realesed?

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